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In the opening minutes, they asked all sorts of questions and eventually got a reward for their pressure. <\/p>\n
The visitors gave away penalty upon penalty, each of them banged to touch by Glasgow. From the decisive lineout, Alex Samuel put it on a plate for Ben Afshar to whip round the back and find McDowall on the inside. <\/p>\n
Dan Lancaster put over the conversion and Glasgow had the start that everybody thought they were getting.<\/p>\n
What they hadn’t bargained on was Toulon – with a terrible record on the road this season – putting it up to them, not solely through their own ruthlessness but also because of Glasgow’s own flatness.<\/p>\n
Drean scored his first after Toulon patiently and powerfully sucked in the Glasgow cover before hitting them out wide. <\/p>\n
The home side then piled the heat back on, winning another raft of penalties, a run of ill-discipline that saw blindside Junior Kpoku binned.<\/p>\n
It didn’t take Glasgow long to punish them, a beautiful floated pass from McDowall out to Smith getting the job done; 12-5 Glasgow. <\/p>\n
If that was the cue for the Warriors to take hold of the game, then they missed their chance.<\/p>\n
They have the best defensive record in the Champions Cup this season but, here, they were passive and vulnerable all of a sudden. <\/p>\n
Toulon didn’t have to do anything flash to score again, just a lot of grunt and a lot of accuracy and Gros was over, Jaminet adding the conversion.<\/p>\n
So the Kpoku sin-bin ended 7-5 to Toulon. Unlike Glasgow, that. And unlike them to concede again soon after, this time off a bungled Glasgow lineout and slick handling from the French. <\/p>\n
When they worked it to Drean on the right wing, he stepped inside Lancaster and scored. Jaminet missed another conversion but his team led 17-12 nonetheless. Glasgow had problems.<\/p>\n
Toulon conceded nine first-half penalties to Glasgow’s two, but when you score practically every time you enter the opposition 22 – as Toulon more or less did – then you’re in good shape.<\/p>\n
Adam Hastings replaced Lancaster at the break and Glasgow got some joy pretty quickly, a lineout maul being driven over with Hiddleston at the bottom of it. <\/p>\n
Hastings lashed over a lovely conversion and Glasgow had their nose in front again. Maybe now they could shake Toulon free? <\/p>\n
No. A scrum 40m out, a Brex blast that took him past one defender and then another and now an arcing run that saw him go all the way to the line. <\/p>\n
A sensational finish from a Toulon perspective, a lamentable defensive lapse when looked at through Glasgow eyes. <\/p>\n
Another conversion was missed in the Scotstoun breeze and it was a three-point game again – in Toulon’s favour now.<\/p>\n
That’s how it stayed and that was Glasgow’s European season done. Toulon march on against all expectations. Stunning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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