More pain for Paolo WASPS STUNG AT DEATH

PAOLO ODOGWU went from frustration to heartbreak – despite turning on the style for the watching Eddie Jones.

The man England would not play started his first game for 12 weeks and wasted no time showing what they had missed in the Six Nations.

He scored with Wasps’ first attack and looked to have bagged another before half-time, as Clermont found his power game too hot to handle.

But the second was one of Wasps tries chalked off by the TMO and it proved costly as the two-time winners lost a sixth straight game at home – beaten to a Champions Cup quarter-final spot on the final play.

“We have had a lot of held-up tries over the last few weeks, a lot of decisions against us, but this really hurts,” said captain Joe Launchbury. “We’re gutted not to progress.” Odogwu, who spent the entire Six Nations toiling in the England camp without getting near to winning a cap, was entitled to feel particularly sore at the result.

His first try, rampaging over from distance after Michael Le Bourgeois had made the bust on first phase, was a gem.

But his smile turned to a frown, as ref Frank Murphy ruled he had not prevented Peni Ravai from getting the ball down for a Clermont try when it looked that way on replays.

Then the officials adjudged that his brilliance in skinning two defenders along the touchline counted for nothing as his boot had skimmed the whitewash.

Worse was still to come, with Odogwu subbed off with nine minutes left and Wasps ahead by five.

But replacement Zach Kibirige was carded for the penalty from which Kotaro Matsushima snatched the winning try, with the clock in the red.

Exeter Chiefs won out 47-25 with Jonny Hill crossing for two tries as Rob Baxter’s men shot down Lyon with seven of the best.

And Munster were dumped out of Europe by Toulouse, losing 40-31.