Toulouse with some smart off-loading stretch Ulster out of shape and earn a penalty shot.

Thomas Ramos steps up to the tee and wallops it over.

Trouble for Ulster.

Another glimmer of promise for Ulster as a sniff of a dummy from Billy Burns works a hole past Romain Ntamack.

Michael Lowry is up in support, but is snared. And the jackalling Peato Mauvaka is over the top to force the turnover.

Ulster attempt to run one from out the playbook, Stuart McCloskey delaying a pass to wing Rob Lyttle coming haring in off the blind wing.

It very nearly puts Lyttle into wide open spaces, but a stretching Toulouse arm gets involved to prompt the knock-on.

Billy Burns probes deep with a kick right off the sweet spot of the index. That is....just the wrong side of the corner flag.

But there is a bit of joy for Ulster as Romain Ntamack gets lost under a high ball and coughs up the pill.

Knock-on, scrum-down white, 30m out from the end zone.

We are up and running in the third Champions Cup quarter-final of the weekend.

Toulouse have their all-singing all-dancing backline in place along with the southern-hemisphere heft of Rory Arnold and Jerome Kaino in the pack.

Toulouse:Ramos; Huget, Guitoune, Ahki, Kolbe; Ntamack, Dupont; Baille, Mauvaka, Faumuina, Arnold, Tekori, Kaino (capt), Cros, Tolofua.

Replacements:Marchand, Neti, Aldegheri, Meafou, Placines, Holmes, Bales, Lebel.

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Scrum-half John Cooney has been recalled to Ulster's starting line-up as the Irish province make four changes for their Champions Cup quarter-final clash with Toulouse on Sunday.

Kiwi Alby Mathewson was given the nod to start at number nine for last week's27-5 Pro14 final defeatby Leinster.

Jack McGrath comes in at loosehead prop, with Jordi Murphy and Nick Timoney coming into the back row.

Marcell Coetzee misses the game through an injury sustained against Leinster.

Ulster: Lowry; Lyttle, Hume, McCloskey, Stockdale, Burns, Cooney; McGrath, Herring, O'Toole; O'Connor, Henderson; Reidy, Murphy, Timoney.

Replacements:Andrew, O'Sullivan, Moore, Carter, Treadwell, Mathewson, Faddes, Matthew Rea.

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In their way stand an Ulster side with five wins in the teams' nine European meeting and a scrum-half maestro of their own.

John Cooney's battle with French livewire Antoine Dupont will be key while Stuart McCloskey will be attempting to punch holes in the Toulouse backline.

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Ramos, Huget, Guitoune, Kolbe, Dupont, Ntamack.

Toulouse have got their swagger back. Now, can they get their silverware back as well?

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Michalak. Castaignede. Ntamack. Jauzion. Poitrenaud.

Toulouse reached the final five times in eight years in the noughties with a backline that was sensational to watch and a nightmare to play against,