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Sunday, January 21, 2018

Dan Jones inspires Scarlets to edge past Toulon and into knockout rounds

• Scarlets 30-27 Toulon
• Welsh side into knockout stage for first time since 2007

The Scarlets will have to wait until Sunday afternoon to learn if they will have home advantage in the quarter-finals but, at the end of a draining encounter in which they were as steely as they were silky, they did not care having made the last eight for the first time since 2007.

They scored only three points in the second half, and these came at its start. Toulon chipped away at the home side’s lead with two François Trinh-Duc penalties but at the point when the experience and international pedigree of the side that won the tournament three seasons in a row this decade started to tell, the Scarlets plundered reserves some outsiders doubted existed. Toulon at least had a bonus point, which takes them through as a best runner-up and made Bath’s 47-26 win at Treviso academic.

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