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Ulster Rugby are taking a drink in the last chance saloon when they host Biarritz Olympique on Friday night.
The 1999 Heineken Cup champions must win both their remaining matches with try bonus points to finish the Pool Stage with 19 points and a chance of making it to the knock-out stage.
Indifferent form from the Ulstermen means they have just nine points from their first four matches. They travelled to Biarritz’s Park des Sports Aguilera in Round 2, and gave the home side a run for their money after conceding two tries within the first five minutes, but were eventually defeated 33-19.
The French side will be gunning for last eight qualification for the fourth year on the spin and have a home tie against Saracens – who currently sit in second place in the Pool – in Round 6.
Mark McCall has named an Ulster side that shows 5 changes from that which defeated Glasgow last weekend.
Isaac Boss replaces Kieran Campbell as the starting scrum-half, Matt McCullough and Paul Steinmetz return from injury to take their places in the starting line-up with Rowan Frost and James Topping moving to the bench and Andrew Trimble moving to the wing while young gun Stephen Ferris will make his first Ulster start , named this week at openside flanker ahead of Neil McMillan.
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Biarritz Olympique more or less made certain of their passage through to the last eight of the Heineken Cup as they stole Ulster’s near five-year unbeaten home record in Europe at Ravenhill.
You had to go back to Round 6 of the 2000-2001 tournament, when Saracens were the victors, for the last time the 1999 champions had been beaten of their own patch.
But after 14 magnificent triumphs, Friday the 13th did for the men in white as their slender hopes of reaching the knockout phase were shredded by the power of the Biarritz pack, and the boot and cunning of man-of-the-match Dimitri Yachvili.
The French international scrum half kicked three penalties and a conversion, while the visitors also conjured a try in each half through their Fijian wing Sereli Bobo and Romanian prop Petru Balan.
Ulster drew first blood playing into a stiff breeze when Rory Best was driven over from a close range lineout for a try that brought the capacity 12,300 crowd to its feet.
The first Yachvili penalty and that opportunist Bobo try edged Biarritz ahead before Ulster twice attempted another close range driving maul while visiting back row man Thierry Dusautoir was in the sin-bin.
But while they failed to score with the extra man the home side were able to draw level after 51 minutes when David Humphreys kicked a penalty to become only the fifth player in Heineken Cup history to break through the 500 points barrier.
The home faithful were hoping the would be the catalyst for another victory march, but the French championship leaders simply got stronger and stronger and Balan’s driving try midway through the second half killed off home hopes.
Yachvili added the conversion, kicked two more penalties and then saw his half-back partner Julien Peyrelongue drive the final nail into Ulster’s coffin with a 35-metre drop goal.
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