• Semi-final: La Rochelle 47-28 Exeter
  • Holders score seven tries to reach third successive final

So much for Exeter’s Last Dance. This was a waltz for La Rochelle, a walloping for the Chiefs. They had hoped to wave goodbye to so many departing club stalwarts in style this season but the brutal reality is they were steamrollered by a La Rochelle side who blend power and panache to devastating effect and are now into their third successive Champions Cup final.

Grégory Alldritt produced the kind of performance that made him Europe’s premier back-rower not so long ago but La Rochelle’s dominance was all over the pitch – the outside centre UJ Seuteni particularly catching the eye – as they ran in seven tries.

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