Ulster and Exeter Chiefs clash at Ravenhill in the final game of the European Champions Cup pool stage.
Ulster
24
:
17
Exeter
We’re midway through the second half. Ulster lead by seven points and are on top. But you feel like anything could happen in the final quarter of this game.
Nathan Doak has been replaced by John Cooney.
Kieran Treadwell and Tom Stewart are also on for Ulster, as Iain Henderson and Rob Herring also make way.
It’s so remote it’s almost daft to talk about it, but that Herring try does open the door to the possibility that Ulster could qualify for the Last 16 of the Champions Cup.
It would take Ulster to hang onto this win and then for Bordeaux to destroy the Sharks on Sunday. It requires a 56 point swing.
No mistake from Doak this time.
Ulster take the leading from a driving maul! That’s a bonus point for Ulster
Exeter collapse a scrum. It’s a penalty to Ulster on the 22. Murphy opts to kick for the corner.
Nick Timoney finds himself in a good position near the 22-metre line. He just had to fed Mike Lowry in, but his pass was too hard and drifted out of play.
We’re back underway at Ravenhill. Will it be Ulster or Exeter who claim fifth place in this pool and a place in the Challenge Cup?
And it’s level at the break here at Ravenhill.
That was a thoroughly entertaining 40 minutes of rugby, even if it was filled with mistakes.
In the Nick of time, just before the break.
The big back row picks the ball up just inside the Exeter half and storms through three tackles to score.
Doak pulls that one wide. It remains level.
What a turn of pace from Nick Timoney!
Bizarre moment.
The ball falls of the tee. With the shot clock ticking Haydon-Wood attempts a drop kick, but skews it wide much to the amusement of the Ravenhill crowd.
Tuima breaks through the Ulster defence and reaches for the line…he just makes it.
Exeter strike straight back!
Doak took too long over that, and had to rush his kick as the shot clock ticked towards zero. Kicked missed under pressure.
That’s time it’s Dave McCann’s turn to score from inside a metre, after a period of sustained pressure. It’s level.
Ulster knocking on the door. Penalty advantage
Exeter take too long to release the ball. It’s an Ulster scrum, five metres out