- Pool B: Harlequins 7-49 Racing 92
- Seven tries for Racing 92 in bonus-point win
With so many European games over the weekend falling victim to Covid-19 it felt almost counterintuitive to see one actually happening in the supposed badlands of Tier 4. Nor did this one-sided contest do much for Harlequins’ collective health, a comprehensive defeat effectively ending the hosts’ Champions Cup qualification hopes after just two weekends.
This was the heaviest home defeat Quins have ever suffered in this competition but it could easily have been worse. Racing 92 scored seven tries without having to stretch themselves massively and it was just as well Quins’ supporters were not allowed in to watch. Had they been, they would surely have been voicing their strong disapproval long before the end. “Today we were way off,” acknowledged Paul Gustard, the club’s head of rugby. “It was just a really, really poor performance.”
