14-man Exeter tuned up for their season-defining Heineken Champions Cup semi-final against La Rochelle next weekend with an impressive 22-21 comeback win in the Premiership against Bristol on Saturday.
The downside for Exeter is they will be heading to Bordeaux without upcoming lock star Dafydd Jenkins who was red-carded in the 17th minute for a high tackle on Max Lahiff with the game scoreless. But the hosts stayed in the fight with tries from departing legends Ian Whitten and Dave Ewers, and another for Josh Iosefa-Scott, to allow Joe Simmonds to land a 78th-minute penalty to win it.
Bristol scored tries through George Kloska, Joe Jenkins and Yann Thomas, all converted by Callum Sheedy but it proved to not be enough.
