Ulster come undone to late Toulouse surge

Toulouse turned the tables on Ulster and dramatically booked their place in the Heineken Champions Cup quarter-finals by beating the 14-man Irish province 30-23 at the Kingspan Stadium to seal a 50-49 aggregate win.

Tries from Thomas Ramos, Romain Ntamack and skipper Antoine Dupont, along with three conversions and three penalties from Ramos, tipped the scales Toulouse's way.

However, the key moment in the contest came in the 64th minute when replacement prop Tom O'Toole was red-carded for a dangerous hit on Anthony Jelonch.

Ulster had led several times after bringing a 26-20 lead back from the first leg in France. Ethan McIlroy scored two tries for them, with John Cooney kicking both conversions and three penalties in a game they led 20-17 at half-time.

First blood was drawn by the visitors, with a second-minute penalty being kicked by Ramos after Jelonch won a breakdown. From the kick-off, Robert Baloucoune was yellow-carded for hitting Jelonch in the air.

Three minutes later Dimitri Delibes was sent to the bin by referee Matthew Carley for lifting and dumping Ethan McIlroy, and shortly afterwards Ramos took a quick lineout throw near his corner flag and threw the ball to Dupont who tried to run out.

Dupont was nailed by Michael Lowry and Ulster gobbled up the loose ball, with James Hume providing the assist for McIlroy to score. Cooney converted and Ulster were up 7-3.

Ramos cut Ulster's lead to just one point after 13 minutes but when Toulouse strayed offside, Cooney did the needful to put Ulster four in front.

However, after 21 minutes, Ntamack combined with Dupont to cut Ulster open and put Ramos in under the posts, the full-back also converting. Toulouse now led 13-10 and had cut Ulster's aggregate lead to just three