No feat for ASM today, beaten for the second time in two games in the knockout stages of the Champions Cup (27-17).
With a reshuffled workforce, the players of Clermont already knew their elimination was almost done before treading the lawn of Welford Road.
However, at the break the Auvergnats held and were only led 7-3. The English having managed to score a try through Hanro Liebenberg.
In the second half, the Tigers killed all suspense thanks to a penalty from George Ford (46th) and above all a try from Matt Scott, served by this same Ford (50th).
Alivereti Raka, in the end, allowed the Jaunards a few minutes later to regain color (58th).
Freddie Steward carried the thrust late in the game (66th) for the English after a classy action while Fritz Lee saved the honor for Clermont (69th) in stride with a try at the end of the line.
Leicester will face the Irish of Munster in the quarter-finals, victorious over Exeter earlier in the day on the aggregate of the two matches (8-13; 26-10).
Toulouse snatch qualification!
Toulouse, beaten by six points in the first leg on their home turf (26-20), managed to reverse the situation by winning 30-23 on Saturday in Belfast against the Irish from Ulster in the round of 16 second leg of the Cup of Europe rugby.
The defending champion, five-time European champion, will move to the quarter-finals, played this time in a dry match, in May, at another Irish province, Munster, which he had taken out of the competition in the previous round. last year.