{"id":382732,"date":"2026-04-05T05:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/382732\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T05:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:56:12","slug":"sale-set-up-potential-champions-cup-last-8-clash-with-leinster-%c2%b7-the-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/382732\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale set up potential Champions Cup last-8 clash with Leinster \u00b7 The 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated at 22.37<\/p>\n<p>Champions Cup last 16 scores on Saturday:<\/p>\n<p>Bath 31 Saracens 22<br \/>\nToulon 28 Stormers 27<br \/>\nGlasgow 25 Bulls 21<br \/>\nToulouse 59 Bristol 26<br \/>\nHarlequins 17 Sale 26<\/p>\n<p>SALE SHARKS\u2019 EXPERIENCED George Ford won the battle of the England fly-halves, kicking 16 points against Marcus Smith\u2019s Harlequins in a 26-17 victory in west London.<\/p>\n<p>Sale will face Leinster or Edinburgh, who face off in Dublin on Sunday, in the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, France centre Kalvin Gourgues scored two scintillating tries as Toulouse reached the Champions Cup quarter-finals after a 59-26 hammering of Bristol Bears on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Gourgues crossed twice in the first half in glorious sunshine in south-west France to set up a last-eight tie next weekend against holders Bordeaux-Begles or Leicester Tigers, who meet on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Wingers Matthis Lebel and Teddy Thomas also claimed doubles while superstar scrum-half Antoine Dupont provided four assists for Toulouse\u2019s nine tries in total.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Fitz Harding, Fiji winger Kalaveti Ravouvou, centre James Williams and replacement Noah Heward touched down in a losing effort for Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were surprised from the off, but we managed to react,\u201d player of the match Gourgues told BeIn Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy to have been able to be of service to the team with two tries and by bringing others into the game around me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter who we face, we\u2019ll prepare the same way,\u201d he added, with the prospect of an all-French tie against Bordeaux and a re-run of last season\u2019s semi-final next week.<\/p>\n<p>Toulouse named a full-strength side for the game played at the city\u2019s football ground with Les Bleus duo Dupont and Romain Ntamack at half-back.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their strong line-up, they trailed after just five minutes as flanker Harding crashed over to quieten the packed 32,000-capacity crowd.<\/p>\n<p>However, the record six-time champions dominated the rest of the half, dotting down six times, the highlight coming in Gourgues\u2019 opening effort, which started with Dupont and Ntamack counter-attacking from their own 22m.<\/p>\n<p>Gourges\u2019 second touchdown was from a shorter distance, but the 21-year-old illustrated all his potential with a smooth sidestep to beat Wales full-back Louis Rees-Zammitt.<\/p>\n<p>After the break, Gourgues remained heavily involved, feeding ex-France winger Thomas for his second try with the result already beyond doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Glasgow Warriors edged the Bulls 25-21 and will welcome Toulon next week after the three-time winners held on while being down two players to edge the Stormers 28-27.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors were 14-12 behind at half-time in driving rain before prop Patrick Schickerling and centre Stafford McDowall scored in the second half for Franco Smith\u2019s side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Huge\u2019 for Bath &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, England flyer Henry Arundell also scored twice as 1998 champions Bath came from behind to see off English Prem rivals Saracens 31-22.<\/p>\n<p>Prem holders Bath will face Henry Pollock\u2019s Northampton in the next round after last season\u2019s runners-up beat Castres 49-41 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bath\u2019s title credentials were underlined, having been 10-0 behind at the break before claiming a first Champions Cup quarter-final spot since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s huge for the club, and the fans deserve nothing more than knockout rounds at The Rec,\u201d Bath captain Ben Spencer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelighted with the win but disappointed with aspects of the performance we know we are going to need to be a hell of a lot better when Saints come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2013 \u00a9 AFP 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated at 22.37 Champions Cup last 16 scores on Saturday: Bath 31 Saracens 22 Toulon 28 Stormers 27&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[170694,170693,61,60,3654,112,170695,14181,83240],"class_list":{"0":"post-382732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bath-rugby","9":"tag-european-rugby-champions-cup","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-rugby","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-toulon","15":"tag-winning","16":"tag-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}