Overview
- Exeter Chiefs, who overran Munster on Saturday, advanced in the EPCR Challenge Cup with a 31-21 win at Sandy Park in Exeter, England.
- The match swung on a 31-0 first half as Ross Vintcent, Henry Slade, Will Rigg and Immanuel Feyi-Waboso scored, with Slade adding four conversions and a penalty.
- Munster rallied after the break through two Jack Crowley tries and a Tadhg Beirne score, but Beirne was later shown a yellow card for a deliberate knock-on.
- Exeter will face Benetton or Cardiff in a quarter-final next weekend in this European knockout competition.
- The defeat ends Munster’s European season and extends a poor run of 10 losses in 19 games this year, leaving Champions Cup hopes tied to a top-eight United Rugby Championship finish.