Free-flowing Harlequins dent Exeter’s playoff hopes with comeback win

• Harlequins 41-24 Exeter

• Hosts score 34 unanswered points in bonus-point victory

Another Prem match, another comeback win. So common are they these days that it hardly needs mentioning that this one had Harlequins overturning the 17-point deficit by which they trailed after little more than half an hour, only to score 34 unanswered points in the next 50 minutes. Their interest in the playoffs ended some months ago, such has been their form, but their hopes of European rugby have been helped no end by this romp at the big stadium across the road.

Exeter are still interested in those playoffs, but if you were to tell them after that first half-hour they would be coming away with only the bonus point they had just secured they might not have believed you. After their vital win over the champions, Bath, last Sunday, the legs of their heavy forwards started to look weary, as the six-day turnaround started to tell. Exeter remain in fourth, but they could have put themselves all but out of reach of the chasing pack.

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المصدر: The Guardian — Sport Rugby Union