Leinster vs Toulouse

Carbery was off target with a penalty
on 34 minutes as the Irish province
attempted to reduce the deficit, but after
wing Earls dotted down out wide in the
final moments of the half, the out-half
drew his side level with an excellent
conversion.
Despite another Carbery penalty
drifting wide early in the second half,
Munster would take the lead on 44
minutes as centre Chris Farrell scythed
through the Toulouse defence and teed
up full-back Haley to squirm over.
Toulouse lock Rory Arnold was sinbinned
on 50 minutes for a dangerous
tackle on Munster wing Simon Zebo
and following more ill-discipline from
the French side over the minutes that
followed, Carbery slotted his first
penalty of the game.
They were the only points scored with
Toulouse down to 14 men and once
they were back to their full complement,
the visitors grabbed a third try as
Lebel surged through midfield and
produced an outrageous sidestep to
beat the last man and dive over on 67
minutes.
A Ramos penalty then left the scores
at 24-24 on 75 minutes and Munster
replacement out-half Ben Healy was
unable to hand his side victory with a
penalty attempt from inside his own half
with the clock in the red, sending the
game to extra time.
The additional 20 minutes offered little
to separate the two sides, with Ramos
and Healy both unsuccessful with
drop-goal attempts, and with both
teams having scored the same number
of tries, a place kick competition was
required.
And it would ultimately be heartbreak
for Munster, as Murray and Healy
dragged their efforts wide and
Toulouse’s kickers held their nerve to
book their place in the last four.
MUNSTER RUGBY
Mike Haley (Ben Healy 71); Keith Earls,
Chris Farrell, Damian de Allende, Simon
Zebo (Murray 96); Joey Carbery,
Conor Murray (Craig Casey 59); Josh
Wycherley (Jeremy Loughman 54), Niall
Scannell (Diarmuid Barron 54), Stephen
Archer (John Ryan 50); Jean Kleyn
(Jason Jenkins 59), Fineen Wycherley
(Thomas Ahern 71); Peter O’Mahony
(Jack Daly 63), Alex Kendellen, Jack
O’Donoghue.
TOULOUSE
Thomas Ramos; Dimitri Delibes (Maxime
Medard 44), Pierre Fouyssac (Baptiste
Germain 63), Pita Ahki, Matthis Lebel;
Romain Ntamack, Antoine Dupont;
Rodrigue Neti (Cyril Baille 45), Julien
Marchand (Peato Mauvaka 45),
Dorian Aldegheri (David Ainu’u 50);
Rory Arnold, Emmanuel Meafou;
Rynhardt Elstadt (Anthony Jelonch
45), Thibaud Flament (Joe Tekori 63),
Francois Cros.
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