To keep European Cup hopes alive, Welsh teams need to win

Leigh Halfpenny kicks a penalty at Cardiff Arms Park in Cardiff

Cardiff kept their trusts of arriving at the European Cup quarter-finals bursting at the seams with a 9-7 win at Glasgow on Friday. 

The triumph, incidentally at any rate, sent Cardiff to the highest point of Pool 2 in front of supreme champions Toulon, who have Exeter on Saturday and could retake the lead assuming that they win. 

The annihilation everything except numerically finished Glasgow's association in the rivalry as they sit eight focuses behind Cardiff with two amusements left. 

Anyway it could have been so diverse had shift fly-half Duncan Weir not cut a punishment wide in the last minute. 

Rhys Patchell scored a staggering punishment from inside his half and Toulon target Leigh Halfpenny scored two increasingly as Cardiff made it three wins from four amusements in the rivalry. 

The Welsh locale's capability trusts could rest on their trek to the south of France in right on time January. 

No.8 and man-of-the-match Robin Copeland was charmed with the effect. 

"It was a dogfight," said the Irish forward, who will join Munster next season. 

"We had an arrangement going in and one was to get an effect and put us in an extraordinary position to experience the assembly to the following adjust. 

"We had an extraordinary disposition, we battled and battled, the entire pack was exceptional." 

Patchell staggered the swarm with a creature punishment to open the scoring from more than 60 yards out on six minutes. 

With the ball inside the Cardiff half as well as even past the 10-metre line, Patchell ventures up and pounded it through the sticks. 

Halfpenny assumed control kicking obligations and included a score 22 prior minutes hitting his second 15 minutes from the closure. 

Cardiff prop Sam Hobbs was yellow-checked 10 prior minutes the break and Glasgow looked to capitalise on the additional man focal point. 

Anyway when Fiji scrum-half Nikola Matawalu scythed over from the once again of a nearby proximity ruck, the score was alluded to the motion picture arbitrator, who discounted it for a piece by a Cardiff player on a potential tackler. 

The Scots did get over the tryline when prop Ryan Grant detached Halfpenny one-on-one a couple of metres from the line and jumped straight through the British and Irish Lions full-once more, with Weir kicking the additional items. 

Be that as it may it was too, past the point of no return and even a losing reward indicate did recovery Glasgow's trusts. 

Ospreys kept their weak numerical capability trusts bursting at the seams with a 21-12 win over French champions Castres. 

With Leinster fixing Pool 1 with three wins out of three and facilitating Northampton on Saturday, Ospreys have alongside no shot of really making the last eight yet this triumph was a support in any case, despite the fact that it might take Castres their shots of arriving at the quarters. 

The foremost half was a kicking challenge between Wales fly-half Dan Biggar and South African scrum-half Rory Kockott that finished even at the break with four punishments each. 

Ospreys might have been disappointed, however, that they neglected to exploit Castres fly-half Remi Tales' sin-binning 26 minutes later as in the additional man period they neglected to outscore the guests. 

Be that as it may in the second period Biggar outshot Kockott three punishments to nil to have the effect. 

Ospreys might even now require a minor inexplicable occurrence to qualify while Castres, with two routs and no reward focuses, might require a noteworthy turnaround and two reward indicate triumphs have any reasonable risk of experiencing.

On December 14, 2013