Overview
- Exeter Chiefs won 44-41 in Treviso on Sunday after Henry Slade landed a 79th-minute penalty to book a semi-final at Ulster.
- The quarter-final produced ten tries, and a 16th-minute penalty try for Exeter also saw Benetton wing Onisi Ratave shown a yellow card.
- Benetton fly-half Jacob Umaga kicked well and scored, pushing the hosts 41-38 ahead before Slade tied the game and then kicked the winner.
- Benetton played without captain Michele Lamaro after a late withdrawal that the club attributed to his partner going into labour.
- The Challenge Cup is European club rugby’s second-tier competition, so a place in Belfast on the weekend of 2 May puts Exeter one win from the final.