Ulster 19-16 Stade Francais
BBC Sport Online's Jim Stokes at Ravenhill

A dramatic try deep into injury time by Lions winger Tyrone Howe saw Ulster defeat Stade Francais in a rousing Pool 2 clash.

Ulster looked down and out, and extremely unlikely to qualify for the knock-out stages, as they trailed last season's beaten finalists.

But in a pulsating final quarter, they whittled down a 16-9 deficit to grab the deciding try six minutes into injury-time.

It gave Ulster revenge for the 40-11 hammering in Stade Jean Bouin last week.

Alan Solomons' team are still second to Stade on tries scored, but are in a healthy position to make the quarter-finals.

Midway through the first half Ulster held a 6-3 advantage with David Humphreys converting two penalties to a single effort by Diego Dominguez.

Humphreys, though, was not having the best of days with the boot and missed four penalties in the first half.

Stade powered ahead in the 31st minute just after Ulster full-back Bryn Cunningham was stretchered off with a serious leg injury.

A big line-out drive proved Ulster's Achilles heel.

The French team drove towards the try-line, and then skipper Fabien Galthie fed big Canadian lock Mike James who touched down in the corner.

This time, in the last play of the game, they took a quick tap penalty and fired the ball left along the line and Howe charged into the corner.

Wallace added a brilliant touchline conversion.

Tyrone Howe was full of praise for his team-mates after the game.

"We showed a lot of courage, it wasn't pretty but we were so courageous and in the end it paid dividends.

"We wanted to reward the crowd and we knew if we kept the ball in hand we had a chance."

Ulster - try: Howe; pens: Humphreys (3), Wallace; con: Wallace.

Stade Francais: tries: James, Jonnet; pens: Dominguez (2).

Ulster: B Cunningham; J Topping, P Wallace, J Bell, T Howe; D Humphreys, N Doak; J Fitzpatrick, P Shields, S Best, G Longwell, M Blair, T McWhirter, R Nelson, A Ward.

Replacements: M Crick, C Boyd for Best (66), P Johns for Blair (68), N McMillen for Nelson (68), B Free, A Larkin for Cunningham (30), S Coulter.

Stade Francais: S Jonnet; C Dominici, F Comba, C Mytton, A Gomes: D Dominguez, F Galthie; S Marconnet, M Blin, P de Villiers, D Auradou, M James, P Tabacco, C Juillet, R Pool-Jones.

Replacements: B August for Blin (76), L Emmanuelli for De Villiers (80), H Chaffardon for James (78), P Rabadan for Juillet (66), N Raffault for Gomes (14)., J Berthe, M Lajus.

Referee: N Whitehouse (Wales).