Paris (AFP) - Stade Francais squeezed into the European Champions Cup last 16 as they earned a gutsy bonus point 37-31 victory over Connacht on Sunday and Wasps lost 45-7 in Munster.
The results allowed the Parisians to push Wasps out of the eighth, and last, qualifying place in Pool B.
The results also allowed Toulouse to finish seventh.The reigning champions were in danger of missing out after their home match with Cardiff being awarded to the Welsh club.
Toulouse were incensed when their game against Cardiff on Saturday was controversially called off because of Covid-19 even though they maintained that they could put out a team.
Sale consolidated their place in the last 16 with a 49-10 thrashing of Pool A's bottom side Ospreys.
In Paris, Irish province Connacht, who had already qualified for the next phase, opened the scoring through Alex Wooton in the seventh minute.
They had another try disallowed by VAR before Stade Francais got into the game with a Nicolas Sanchez penalty and the first of wing Adrien Lapegue's two tries.
Connacht, however, took a 17-10 halftime lead when scrum-half Caolin Blade wriggled his way through the home defence just before the interval.
The Parisians bounced back straight after with Ngani Laumape scoring his first try for the club but were soon reduced to 14 when Australian hooker Paul Latu was sent off for backchat by referee Wayne Barnes.
Connacht scored again through Tom Farrell and Jarred Butler while Stade Francais punched back with touchdowns from Kylan Hamdaoui and Ryan Chapuis which meant they trailed 27-31 with 10 minutes remaining.
Lapegue stepped up to score his second try and two penalties from Joris Segonds secured an important win for the French side.
Kicking off after the Stade match had finished, Wasps knew they needed just a bonus point but were 17-0 down after 17 minutes and concede six tries.
Conor Murray and Simon Zebo scored early tries for the home team before Dan Robson hit back for Wasps, but that was the last of their resistance.
Sale eased through their final pool match with a seven-try bonus-point victory over a depleted Ospreys side who finish the campaign with zero points from their four games.
Wing Tom Roebuck scored two tries with Aaron Reed, Ewan Ashman, Dan du Preez, Curtis Langdon and Jack Metcalf also crossing.Sale had another four tries disallowed.
Flanker Harri Deaves Ospreys capped an impressive debut for Ospreys with the Welsh side's only try of the game.
