THE FUSE

Stade Francais: (0) 27

Tries: Melikidze, Motassi, Penalty, Laloi Cons: Barre Pens: Barre

Exeter: (17) 25

Tries: Brown-Bampoe, Sio 2 Cons: Slade 2 Pens: Slade Drop goal: Slade

Exeter's indiscipline saw them throw away a 22-point lead as they lost at Stade Francais in the European Challenge Cup.

Paul Brown-Bampoe's 15th-minute try and Scott Sio's score in stoppage time at the end of the first half put Exeter 17-0 up at the break.

Sio got another soon after the restart to put Exeter 22-0 ahead, before Giorgi Melikidze replied soon after for Stade.

Thibaut Motassi's try reduced the gap further as Exeter gave away penalty after penalty.

Greg Fisilau was sin-binned for bringing down a 63rd-minute maul, with replacement Lewis Pearson giving away a penalty try for a similar offence a minute later.

Down by two men, Charles Laloi's try put the hosts ahead soon after, but Henry Slade's drop goal from 35 metres with eight minutes left saw Exeter go a point in front despite being short-handed.

But Leo Barre's penalty four minutes later, after another Exeter error, sealed the English side's fate.

The loss means Exeter remain second in Pool Three, but cannot win the group as Stade have a six-point lead over the Chiefs with one game to go.

Exeter needed try-saving tackles from Ethan Roots and Slade inside the first 12 minutes, before going ahead three minutes later when Brown-Bampoe got on the end of a long Dafydd Jenkins pass to go over in the left corner.

It gave the Chiefs confidence and they began to threaten more, although both sides struggled to get into their opponents' red zone as Slade added a penalty six minutes before the interval.

It took until stoppage time in the first half for either team to have any meaningful time in their opponent's red zone - and Exeter made the most of it as Sio crashed over from close range following phase after phase of pressure on the Stade line.

Sio got a second close-range try five minutes after the restartm before Melikidze replied for the hosts from a similar range six minutes later after their first period of pressure on the Exeter line.

Exeter's discipline began to ebb away under the increased pressure from the hosts, and following a five-metre lineout after a fourth successive penalty, Motassi sniped over from a metre out with 20 minutes to go.

Another lineout from a penalty saw Fisilau bring down a maul, and when Pearson did the same seconds later Exeter were reduced to 13 men and had a penalty try awarded against them.

Within three minutes they were behind, as Barre fed Joe Jonas, who put Laloi through in the right corner for Stade's bonus-point try.

Slade put Exeter back in front with his drop goal, but another penalty - after Will Haydon-Wood was penalised for holding on when Immanuel Feyi-Waboso decided to pass to the fly-half rather than kick - sealed their fate as Barre kicked what proved to be the winning points.

Stade Francais: Jonas; Laloi, Marchant, Vili, Etien; Foursans-Bourdette, Motassi; Iscaro, Nicotera, Alo-Emile, Gabrillagues (capt), Turagacoke, Scelzo, Hirigoyen, Mapu

Replacements: Garcia Albo, Alo-Emile, Melikidze, Pesenti, Briatte, Delbouis, Abadie, Barre

Exeter: Woodburn; Feyi-Waboso, Slade, Rigg, Brown-Bampoe; Haydon-Wood, Chapman; Sio, Dweba, Tchumbadze, Jenkins (capt), Zambonin, Hooper, Roots, Fisilau.

Replacements: Yeandle, Goodrick-Clarke, Roots, Tuima, Pearson, James, Cairns, Coen.

Yellow card: Fisilau (64), Pearson (65)

Referee: Craig Evans (Wales)