Du Toit stars as Bath keep hopes alive with Champions Cup win over Clermont

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• Pool 2: Bath 40-21 Clermont Auvergne
• Premiership leaders travel to Leinster next Saturday

Bath are not yet certain of qualification for the knock-out stages of this year's Champions Cup but this six-try bonus point victory has given their chances a much-needed boost. While plenty still hinges on the outcome of Saturday's trip to face Leinster, they are still alive in a pool where every point is having to be earned the hard way.

The Premiership pace-setters may still have to rely on Benetton being well beaten at home to La Rochelle but a losing bonus point in Dublin could now narrowly sneak them through. If they do make it through they will be suitably grateful, not for the first time, to their South African prop Thomas du Toit whose brace of tries added further gloss to a typically strong set-piece performance.