The Limerick crowd were treated to five tries, with four of them coming from the Irish province as prop John Ryan, No.8 CJ Stander and wingers Darren Sweetnam and Andrew Conway crossed the whitewash.

Toulouse got off to the worst possible start when No.8 Francois Cros was sin-binned in the opening minute for a high tackle and when he returned, his side were 10-0 down.

Two line-outs opened up a gap for Heineken Man of the Match Ryan to drive through for a try at the posts and fly-half Tyler Bleyendaal added the extras before slotting over a penalty.

Toulouse fought their way back into the match and used their pack to make vital inches, before fly-half Jean-Marc Doussain kicked three penalties against another from Bleyendaal to leave the French side just four points down at the break.

However, Munster wasted no time on the resumption in extending their lead. Bleyendaal thumped over a penalty from the halfway line and then Stander converted a neat peel from a five-metre line-out into a typical close-range try.

Bleyendaal couldn’t convert it, but he did land a simple penalty to stretch Munster’s advantage to 15 points prior to a mini-revival from the visitors.

A touchline break by wing Paul Perez and lock Yoann Maestri was finished off by Perez in the left corner and Doussain kicked a touchline conversion to cut the gap to eight points and keep the door slightly ajar.

But Munster finished really strongly with late scores from Sweetnam and Conway to put the gloss on the scoreline and send the hosts into yet another semi-final.

Today we take a look back to this day in 2017, when Munster reached a 12th European Cup semi-final after a commanding success over Toulouse at a packed Thomond Park.