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Old 12-18-2007, 12:41 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Default Wasps in knife-edge Clermont win

Defending champions Wasps edged closer to the European Cup quarter-finals with a thrilling, hard-fought 25-24 win over highly-fancied French outsiders Clermont on Saturday.

Wasps lost 37-27 to Clermont last weekend, but the French outfit initially struggled to contain the Danny Cipriani-inspired Londoners whose free-running style of attack gave them a 22-3 lead at the break.

Live-wire Irish scrum-half Eoin Reddan opened the scoring for Wasps, pouncing on a mistake by counterpart Pierre Mignoni.

Wingers Tom Voyce and Paul Sackey added two more in a first pulsating half, the latter a length-of-the-field move that featured great hands by Cipriani and centre Fraser Waters, with Clermont notching up an Alex King penalty.

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