Far from pretty but Ulster claim place in Champions Cup quarter-finals

It was a performance riddled with mistakes, so many of them elementary, but the side's reaction to adversity in the second-half, when coming from 13-0 down to claim the lead and hold out in the face of considerable pressure, was impressive.

Far from pretty but Ulster claim place in Champions Cup quarter-finals

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Ulster made bloody hard work of it but the northern province ultimately did enough in the East Midlands on Saturday afternoon to secure their place in the last eight of the Heineken Champions Cup for the first time in five years.

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