Will Greenwood's Favourite 5: Rampaging Nadolo and 'stylish' props
Monday 23 January 2017 16:31, UK
Nemani Nadolo barging through the Saints defence, Mathieu Bastareaud's monster tackle and Ben Tameifuna's stylish footwear feature this week.
The final round of the Champions Cup group stages certainly lived up to expectation as the best in Europe fought for a place in the quarter-finals.
Defending champions Saracens will host Glasgow Warriors, who made the quarter-finals for the first time in their history with a 43-0 rout of Leicester.
Top seeds Clermont Auvergne will host Toulon in a repeat of the 2015 final, which Toulon won. Munster will welcome Toulouse and Wasps will travel to Leinster when the Champions Cup returns in the last weekend of March.
But what caught Will Greenwood's eye in the final weekend?
We kick off on Friday night where a rampaging Nemani Nadolo ran riot against Northampton as he score two tries. His first was an absolute gem; given the ball tight to the touchline, Nadolo looked a long way from the line but he bounced off five tacklers - including George North - to power over for a score eerily similar to that by the late Jonah Lomu against England at the 1995 World Cup.
If you didn't see it then you must have heard it as Toulon's Mathieu Bastareaud put in one of the tackles of the year on Saracens full-back Alex Lozowski. It was a bone-shuddering hit and just as impressive as the tackle was the way Lozowski got back up and carried on.
Also on Greenwood's radar was the footwear of Racing 92 prop Ben Tameifuna, who certainly was not feeling the cold in those beauties!
Click on the video above to see all of Will's Favourite Five.