Pool 3: Exeter 32-24 MunsterVisitors collapse after taking 24-13 lead into final quarter
The bounce of a rugby ball can change everything thing as Munster found to their cost in Devon. One minute the Irish province were looking in total control of a Champions Cup fixture they badly needed to win, the next they were heading home completely deflated from a game turned on its head by an extraordinary late surge from a re-energised young Chiefs team now riding high in Pool Three.
At 24-13 to a dominant Munster entering the final quarter there had seemed only one possible outcome, at which point Exeter’s bench completely ripped up the script. First the back-row forward Ross Vintcent stretched over for a close-range try to reignite the contest and then, less than three minutes later, the replacement scrum-half Stu Townsend lobbed a box kick into some space on the edge of the Munster 22.