Paris (France) (AFP) - English Prem leaders Northampton paid the price for ill-discipline as they lost a feisty rematch of last season’s Champions Cup final 50-28 on Sunday as Antoine Dupont’s Toulouse tripped up at Saracens.

Munster’s hopes of reaching the last 16 suffered a blow when the two-time champions lost 27-25 in a Pool 2 thriller at Toulon.

And English side Harlequins booked their place in the knockout stages with a one-sided 61-10 bonus point win at home to Cape Town Stormers in Pool 3.

Both defending champions Bordeaux-Begles and Northampton were already sure of qualifying before their Pool 4 meeting.

Salesi Rayasi gave the hosts an early lead with an unconverted try. Henry Pollock replied and Frenchman Anthony Belleau converted to give the Saints the lead.

After Northampton’s Danilo Fischetti collected a 16th minute yellow card for a scrum offence, fullback Rayasi scored again to restore the Bordeaux-Begles lead.

As Fischetti returned, team-mate Rory Hutchinson replaced him in the sin bin after taking out star winger Louis Bielle-Biarrey.

Again, the hosts exploited their advantage as scrum-half Martin Page-Relo and lock Cameron Woki touched down to put them 24-7 up at half-time.

Rayasi completed his hat-trick two minutes into the second half.

Woki then scored twice either side of a Saints try by Tommy Freeman.

Matthieu Jalibert added an eighth home try before Pollock, booed throughout by the home fans, scored his second.

With the hosts down to 14 after substitute Arthur Retiere staggered off after seeing a yellow card and stars for an illegal tackle on the charging Pollock which left him dazed, Fischetti crashed over to earn Saints a bonus point.

“I’m happy. We won the match we gained a bonus point,” said Bordeaux-Begles winger Damian Penaud.

Bordeaux-Begles will visit Bristol in the final round next weekend with first place at stake.

- ‘Ordinary’ Toulouse -

In the late game, Toulouse were beaten 20-14 at Saracens to leave the record six-time champions in trouble in fourth in Pool 1 ahead of their closer against Sale.

“We lost both of our away matches. So we’ve fallen back into line a bit and certainly became a bit ordinary. And ordinary isn’t enough to qualify for the top spots in the Champions Cup,” Toulouse coach Ugo Mola said.

Toulouse opened the scoring in London through a Blair Kinghorn try, converted by Thomas Ramos, before the hosts hit back through a Rotimi Segun brace, with Tom Willis also touching down a minute before the break.

Matthis Lebel crossed for the French Top 14 champions in the second period but an Owen Farrell penalty just after the hour rounded off the scoring as Saracens moved to third in the pool, three points ahead of Toulouse.

In the south of France, Toulon edged a tight encounter to lead Munster 7-6 at the break.

The first 10 minutes of the second half then produced three tries as Ben White first crossed followed by Gael Drean, with Munster’s Calvin Nash jotting down between the two Toulon scores.

Domon stretched the Toulon lead to 24-13 with a penalty before the Irish hit back again through Jack O’Donoghue’s unconverted try and a Tom Farrell score that Jack Crowley converted to give Munster a one-point lead.

But four minutes from time, Toulon secured the victory as Domon landed his second penalty.

The pool will be decided next week when Munster host Castres and Toulon travel to Gloucester.

Harlequins made short work of a weakened Stormers to leap-frog the South African franchise into second place in Pool 3 and secure their passage to the last 16.

The out-of-form London side ran in nine tries as they emerged convincing winners after a run of league defeats.