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14th December 2014
04:23pm GMT

The French side then took charge, with captain Damien Chouly finishing off a scintillating move to stretch for the line.
A penalty from Lopez put the hosts in front, but it appeared Munster had weathered the storm and would go into the dressing-room 8-6 down. But the failure to adequately clear their lines was punished in lightning fashion by winger Noa Nakaitaci, who sidestepped his way through the red line of defence to touch down and make it 15-6 at the break.
Munster struck first through Keatley after the break, but any momentum was halted when Felix Jones was sin-binned for taking out a player without the ball.
A pair of penalties made it 21-9 to Clermont, and all looked lost when Chouly appeared all alone on the wing to haul in a crossfield kick and score his second try.
But Munster continued to plug away and Duncan Casey pounced on a loose pass to cut the gap to ten points at 26-16.
With time running out, Munster went in search of the points that would give them that potentially crucial bonus point, and Clermont duly obliged, giving away a long-range penalty that Keatley confidently struck between the posts.
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