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The “bristol bears champions cup fixtures” is a rugby union competition between the Bristol Bears and Cardiff Blues. The first match of the tournament was played on October 20th, 2018 at Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol.
Last season’s final eight saw Sale lose to La Rochelle.
| (3) 29 Bristol |
| Thacker, Morahan 2, Joyce, Thacker, Morahan, Morahan, Morahan, Morahan, Mor Sheedy is a disadvantage. Sheedy, 3rd Pen |
| 35. Sale (17) |
| De Jager, Van der Merwe, Roebuck, and Ross have all tried. R Du Preez 3, R Du Preez 3, R Du Preez 3, R Du Preez 3, R Du Preez 3, R Du Preez 3, R Du Preez 3, |
| On aggregate, Sale wins 44-39. |
Sale made it to the Champions Cup quarter-finals for the third time, surviving a second-half comeback and Arron Reed’s red card in the 33rd minute.
Early in the second half, the visitors made light of Reed’s ejection for a high hit, racing to a 24-3 advantage.
The visitors were pulled in by tries from Harry Thacker, Luke Morahan, and Joe Joyce, but Bristol lost impetus after that.
Sale took the lead again thanks to Rob du Preez’s goal, but skipper Jono Ross dotted down to put his side out of reach.
A brilliant tap-on ball from Charles Piutau set up Luke Morahan for a 78th-minute goal, but it was too late to add another twist to an incredible game.
In the final eight, Sale will play either Racing 92 or Stade Francais.
Bristol’s loss effectively puts an end to a rather lackluster season. They are presently 10th in their domestic league, having lost six of their past seven games after finishing first in the Premiership regular season standings last year.
Sale is fighting for a spot in the last eight.
scrum-half for sale Faf de Klerk will be hoping to break new ground in his last season at the club by leading them to the last four for the first time.
He came out firing in this match, kicking, pursuing, and tackling with ferocity and precision.
Sale had a yellow card for an early challenge on Fitz Harding while attempting to recover a charged-down kick, but he handled the penalty properly.
With the score tied at 3-3, the Springbok returned to the field and watched from the back of a breakdown as his international teammate Lood de Jager burrowed past Nathan Hughes for the game’s first try.
Sale led 10-3 on the night and 19-13 on aggregate, but the odds looked to be stacked against them in the 34th minute when Reed was sent off.
Sale had more than 45 minutes to negotiate with just 14 men after Reed was sent off.
The winger’s challenge on opposing number Morahan was not intentional, but he never went low enough, and as Morahan stepped in, Reed’s shoulder made evident, strong contact with the Australian’s head, leaving referee Frank Murphy with nowhere to go.
Sale’s best option, down a man, looked to be to keep things further tighter than normal and depend on their set-piece dominance.
It was successful. For a time, at least.
In the penultimate play of the first half, after his team forced a penalty in the scrum, Akker van der Merwe ripped off the back of the resultant driving maul and touched down to make it 17-3.
Sale extended their lead with the opening play of the second half. With just 12 seconds remaining on the clock, Manu Tuilagi pounced on a loose ball, fed Jean Luc de Preez, and Tom Roebuck dived over.
With their season on the line and a 20-point deficit on the season’s aggregate, Bristol raided their star-studded bench. The likes of Piutau, Semi Radradra, and Steven Luatua were put into the mix.
Pat Lam’s team was able to claw their way back into the game thanks to the visitors’ indiscipline more than Bristol’s game-breakers.
props for sale Nick Schonert received a yellow card for a no-arms tackle, reducing his team to 13 players for the next 10 minutes.
A minute later, Thacker trudged over at the back of a rolling maul, before Harry Randall’s long ball found Morahan strolling through an undermanned defense.
Bristol was tied at 24-24 on the night and led by a point on aggregate when Joyce spun free of a tackle on the 22 and cantered over in the 62nd minute.
The Ashton Gate crowd cheered for their team, but it was Sale who gained a new lease of life.
Robert du Preez kicked a couple of penalties to put his team back in front, before Ross collected a probing crossfield bomb to give them an advantage that held up against Bristol’s frantic late onslaught.
“We were sloppy in the first half; we couldn’t obtain our line-out, we only had 37 percent territory, and possession was poor as well,” said Bristol director of rugby Pat Lam.
“At halftime, we stated we needed the ball to put them under pressure.” We made another blunder by conceding early in the second half, although to be fair to the players, they did take the lead.
“But once we were ahead, we didn’t handle the final 10 or 15 minutes very well. We gave up some ridiculous penalties and were then chasing the game, which is something you don’t want to do against Sale.”
“Our owner, Simon Orange, is sending us to Barcelona for our Premiership bye week,” said sales director of rugby Alex Sanderson. ‘Al, if you lose this, it’ll be horrible,’ he said on Tuesday, ‘but if you win, it’ll be enormous.’ So I’m planning on taking at least four days off in Barcelona.
“It’s time to go back to work. Newcastle is our next opponent, and the quarter-finals will be played there. It has made the second half of the season really interesting. There’s a lot to be gained from a season that, by Christmas, seemed to be dead and buried.”
Line-ups
Lane; Morahan, O’Conor, Bedlow, Leiua; Sheedy, Randall; Woolmore, Kerr, Sinckler, Attwood, Joyce (c), Harding, Jeffries, Hughes; Sheedy, Randall; Woolmore, Kerr, Sinckler, Attwood, Joyce (c), Harding, Jeffries, Hughes; Sheedy, Randall; Sheedy, Randall; Sheedy, Randall; Shee
Thacker in place of Kerr (32), Piutau in place of Lane (40), Radradra in place of Bedlow (44), Y. Thomas in place of Woolmore (44), Hawkins in place of Attwood (41), Luatua in place of Hughes (44), Afoa in place of Sinckler (49), Uren in place of Randall (75)
Hawkins, Hawkins, Hawkins, Hawkins, Hawkins (66)
L James; Roebuck, S James, Tuilagi, Reed; R Du Preez, De Klerk; Rodd, Van der Merwe, Schonert, Wiese, De Jager, JL Du Preez, Ross (c), D Du Preez; Rodd, Van der Merwe, Schonert, Wiese, De Jager, JL Du Preez, Ross (c), D Du Preez; Rodd, Van der Merwe, Schonert, Wiese, De
Van Rensburg replaces Tuilagi (58), Ashman replaces van der Merwe (58), J. Du Preez replaces De Jager (46), McIntyre replaces J Du Preez (64), Taylor replaces Schonert (64), and Oosthuizen replaces Janse van Rensburg (64).
The “heineken cup fixtures” is a yearly rugby union competition that takes place in Europe. The 2017 edition of the tournament was won by Bristol 29.
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