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While Lyon scored first through Ethan Dumortier’s try, Bath took the lead with Dunn and Max Ojomoh scores and navigated a tricky end to the first half when they were briefly reduced to 13 players following Sam Underhill and Will Muir’s yellow cards.<\/p>\n
Arno Botha pulled another back for Lyon but Bath ended the night comfortable winners as tries from Beno Obano and Spencer took them out of sight.<\/p>\n
Lyon coach Karim Ghezal said one of Bath’s yellow cards was “rather dodgy” but that he would not complain about refereeing.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t score when they were down to 13. They had two yellow cards,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Bath is a very strong team and we knew they were very effective so we need to face the facts.”<\/p>\n
Bath now face another huge two weeks as the Premiership season reaches its conclusion. <\/p>\n
They travel to Saracens on Saturday, 31 May for the final round of the competition, before a home semi-final at the Recreation Ground on Friday, 6 June for a place in the Twickenham final. <\/p>\n
Van Graan said the Challenge Cup trophy was a credit to every player a staff member involved at the club, and that they are enjoying their “journey” together.<\/p>\n
“We’ll enjoy [Friday], we’ll enjoy what this trophy represents – incredible hard work by a lot of people – and then we’ll come back on Tuesday morning and we’ll move on again,” Van Graan said.<\/p>\n
“We’re not chasing anything, we are enjoying our journey together.”<\/p>\n
Additional reporting by Alistair Durden.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n