DAVID BARNES

Dismay: Chris Ashton missed two chances to score, costing Toulon defeat
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FRENCH COLUMN
The sureness of touch that has brought records for Chris Ashton this season – no-one has scored more Top 14 tries than him – deserted him in his hour of need.
Toulon full-back Ashton, the former Saracen, did score his 24th of the campaign in a quarter-final play-off at home to Lyon, assumed by most to be an open invitation into the last four.
But, sadly for him, the hands betrayed him twice with tries at his mercy and it will be Lyon who play Montpellier ...