Jacob Stockdale launches Ulster campaign and adds to Wasps’ early-season pain

• Ulster 19-9 Wasps
• Stockdale and Stuart McCloskey score tries for much-improved hosts

Wasps have endured a tough start to the domestic season and the Champions’ Cup is not yet easing the pain. Belfast on a Friday night is never an easy place to travel to and a sharply improved second-half display duly yielded the hosts’ 14th victory in their last 18 home games against English opposition in Europe.

For a while, when they held a 9-3 lead in the third quarter, it seemed Wasps might just be on course for a remarkable success given the logistical difficulties of a five-day turnaround and the loss of three more players to injury in the first half alone. They reckoned without the inspirational Charles Piutau, once a Wasp himself, who created a brace of Ulster tries in as many minutes to transform the contest.

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