Stade Francais Paris lost their unbeaten record at the home of the English champions, but still emerged with a precious bonus point.

A penalty fine minutes into injury time by replacement outside half David Skrela clinched that losing bonus point for the Frenchman to keep them at the top of the Pool.

With two rounds still to go Stade lead 15 points from the Ospreys with 14 and Sale with 10 – leaving all to play for in January. In a game dominated by the boot three penalties from home outside half and a drop goal from Chris Bell allowed the Sharks to build a 12 point lead in the first 22 minutes.
Stade outside half Lionel Beauxis knocked over a simple penalty for the visitors after 27 minutes and then was inches wide with the last kick of the first half.

As the rain poured down in the second half so the game became an even tighter forward struggle and the 10,000 plus crowd had to wait 45 minutes for another score.

Thomas was wide with two penalties from the right hand side of the Stade 22 when the visitors had a forward the in the sin bin and the only scoring opportunity the Parisians had prior to Skrela’s penalty was an unsuccessful goal attempt by Beauxis three minutes after the restart .

Thomas tried to strip Stade of their bonus points with two speculative drop goal attempts in the dying moments, but he was wide with both and Sale were left with a revenge victory but not the complete result they had hoped for