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Immanuel Feyi-Waboso was a threat throughout the game and picked up the player of the match award| Exeter Chiefs: (7) 21 |
| Tries: Vintcent, Fisilau, Roots Cons: Slade 3 |
| Bath: (12) 15 |
| Tries: Du Toit, Hill Pen: Spencer Con: Spencer |
Exeter Chiefs fought back to beat Bath at Sandy Park and book a spot in the Investec Champions Cup quarter-finals.
Despite playing into a strong wind and losing Finn Russell to an early injury, Bath led 12-7 at half-time after tries from Thomas du Toit and Ted Hill.
Exeter had the majority of first-half territory, but could only manage one score through Ross Vintcent.
However, the hosts clicked into gear in the second period with tries from Greg Fisilau and Ethan Roots.
Rob Baxter's side will now face the winner of Toulouse or Racing 92 - who play on Sunday - in the quarter-finals next weekend.
An away win for Racing, who struggled in the pool stages with only one win, would give the Chiefs a home tie.
That scenario would also avoid a difficult trip to five-time winners Toulouse, who were ranked as the number-one seeds heading into the knockout stages after winning all four pool games.
More to follow.
Line-ups
Exeter: Hodge; Feyi-Waboso, Slade, Devoto, Woodburn; Skinner, Cairns; Sio, Yeandle, Painter, Tuima, Jenkins (capt), Roots, Tshiunza, Vintcent.
Replacements: Innard, Southworth, Street, Pearson, Fisilau, Townsend, Haydon-Wood, Wimbush.
Bath: Gallagher; Cokanasiga, Lawrence, Redpath, Muir; Russell, Spencer (capt); Obano, Dunn, Du Toit, Roux, Ewels, Hill, Underhill, Barbeary.
Replacements: Annett, Schoeman, Stuart, Stooke, Reid, Schreuder, Bailey, Coetzee.
Sin-bin: Tom Dunn (5)
Referee: Luc Ramos (France)
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