Europe delivers mouth-watering games for knockout stages

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The road to Marseille has been mapped out now for the remaining 16 teams in this season’s Heineken European Champions Cup.

For a second consecutive season Covid had stalked the premier club tournament, and while it played a part in each of the four rounds of the pool phase of the current instalment, it inadvertently helped produce one of the most dramatic final weekends of the competition.

For regular readers, you may recall at the outset of the competition, I said I felt there was perhaps not the same appetite for the European tournament pre-Covid.

Aside from forfeited matches and drawn match rulings due to the pandemic, there was perhaps a bigger appetite than I had thought.

The drama in the final round began on Friday night at The Twickenham Stoop, when English champions Harlequins denied Castres a place in the last 16, with another last gasp score.

And it was not until the final game on Sunday . . .

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