- Pool B: Wasps 14-35 Munster
- Munster clinch bonus point win despite 34 players out
Maybe this is the way forward for rugby as a spectator sport. Pick two teams pretty much out of a tombola, mix Lions and World Cup winners with hastily-recruited academy kids and then watch them collectively deliver a cheerfully unscripted antidote to Covid defeatism. Despite neither side being remotely at full strength this was a crazily entertaining contest by most other measures.
Given Munster had around 34 individuals unavailable following their Covid-hit trip to South Africa, and had not played for seven weeks, the outcome will also be viewed as a minor miracle in Ireland, whose teams have had a properly epic European weekend. To Connacht smashing Stade Français, Ulster conquering Clermont and Leinster thumping Bath can now be added this unexpected Wasps walloping.
