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Stade Francais kept their hopes of emerging from a tough Heineken Cup pool alive with a hard-earned victory over Leicester in Paris.
Scrum-half Jerome Fillol recovered from two awful early misses to punish the Tigers with four penalties.
The score was deadlocked at 3-3 after a feisty first half, Andy Goode landing Leicester's only points with a penalty.
The fly-half notched a second with 10 minutes left to give the Tigers what could prove a crucial bonus point.
Stade Francais were missing a host of big names and it showed as they made a nervous start.
With normal kicker Juan Martin Hernandez absent Fillol was forced into action and he was woefully inaccurate with his first two efforts.
He finally found the target after 23 minutes but Goode hit back for the Tigers a minute before the break as an attritional first half ended 3-3.
After the interval the Stade Francais pack began to get on top and three successful Fillol kicks saw the hosts leading 12-3 with 10 minutes to play.
Goode landed his second penalty to get Leicester back within six points before the visitors launched a late assault which nearly brought them victory.
They had to do it with 14 men after lock Ben Kay - on as a replacement - foolishly infringed at a ruck to earn his second yellow card in successive games.
That appeared to have extinguished the Tigers' hopes of stealing victory late on, only for Geordan Murphy's break-out to reignite their ambitions.
Murphy sliced through the hosts' line but had no support outside, and when Leicester were awarded the put-in at an attacking scrum they were shoved off the ball by a powerful Stade Francais drive.
Leicester rallied for one final fling, but when Martin Corry ran into a team-mate two yards out as he tried to power over the hosts' line, the game was up.
Stade Francais kept their hopes of emerging from a tough Heineken Cup pool alive with a hard-earned victory over Leicester in Paris.
Scrum-half Jerome Fillol recovered from two awful early misses to punish the Tigers with four penalties.
The score was deadlocked at 3-3 after a feisty first half, Andy Goode landing Leicester's only points with a penalty.
The fly-half notched a second with 10 minutes left to give the Tigers what could prove a crucial bonus point.
Stade Francais were missing a host of big names and it showed as they made a nervous start.
With normal kicker Juan Martin Hernandez absent Fillol was forced into action and he was woefully inaccurate with his first two efforts.
He finally found the target after 23 minutes but Goode hit back for the Tigers a minute before the break as an attritional first half ended 3-3.
After the interval the Stade Francais pack began to get on top and three successful Fillol kicks saw the hosts leading 12-3 with 10 minutes to play.
Goode landed his second penalty to get Leicester back within six points before the visitors launched a late assault which nearly brought them victory.
They had to do it with 14 men after lock Ben Kay - on as a replacement - foolishly infringed at a ruck to earn his second yellow card in successive games.
That appeared to have extinguished the Tigers' hopes of stealing victory late on, only for Geordan Murphy's break-out to reignite their ambitions.
Murphy sliced through the hosts' line but had no support outside, and when Leicester were awarded the put-in at an attacking scrum they were shoved off the ball by a powerful Stade Francais drive.
Leicester rallied for one final fling, but when Martin Corry ran into a team-mate two yards out as he tried to power over the hosts' line, the game was up.
