Clermont Auvergne turn on the style as England’s top team are swept aside

Clermont Auvergne 37 Northampton Saints 5

Northampton Saints completed a chastening day for English clubs in the
quarter-finals of the European Champions Cup after being put to the sword by
Clermont Auvergne at the Stade Marcel-Michelin.



Just hours after Bath had succumbed to Leinster in Dublin, the defending Aviva
Premiership champions and runaway league leaders leaked four tries to their
dazzling opponents who had amassed a 27-0 lead by half-time.

Noa Nakaitaci,
the wing, plundered a brace of tries, while Wesley Fofana, the France
centre, and Nick Abendanon, the former Bath ful…