With the highest eight confirmed, Saturday’s URC matches in Pretoria, Durban and Dublin will decide the Vodacom Bulls, Sharks and Stormers’ quarter-final opponents.
On Friday evening, Edinburgh and Munster booked their playoff spots, with Edinburgh claiming a 47-17 bonus-point win in opposition to Ulster at Hive Stadium and Munster beating Benetton 30-21 in Limerick.
These outcomes ended the top-eight hopes of Cardiff, who misplaced 34-24 to the Stormers in Cape City.
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Because it stands, the second-placed Bulls would host Edinburgh within the quarter-finals, with the fifth-placed Stormers heading to Durban to play the fourth-placed Sharks. However that might change if the Sharks beat Scarlets at Kings Park on Saturday and Glasgow lose to log-leaders Leinster in Dublin.
The Sharks would then host Munster within the quarter-finals, with the Stormers travelling to Scotland to tackle Glasgow.
The eighth-placed Scarlets would transfer to sixth, above Munster and Edinburgh, with a win in opposition to the Sharks and to seventh, above Edinburgh, if they simply picked up a bonus level. Within the former case, the Bulls would host Munster. Within the latter, Scarlets would go to Loftus.
Within the unlikely occasion that the Bulls misplaced to bottom-placed Dragons at Loftus and Glasgow acquired a bonus-point win in opposition to Leinster, Glasgow would end second and the Bulls third.
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