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Danny Care played successful Harlequins' Challenge Cup last triumph complete Stade Francais 2011
Investec Champions Cup semi-final
Venue: Stadium de Toulouse Date: Sunday, 5 May Time: 15:00 BST
Coverage: Live commentary connected BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra; unrecorded matter updates connected BBC Sport website and app.
Toulouse's "fear factor" intends Harlequins could request a "10 retired of 10 performance" to scope nan Investec Champions Cup final, says scrum-half Danny Care.
Quins look nan five-time winners, who were classed number 1 seeds heading successful nan knockouts, successful nan southbound of France connected Sunday.
The Premiership broadside reached their first Champions Cup semi-final pinch a thrilling 42-41 distant victory against Bordeaux-Begles.
"One point we are decidedly going to do is springiness it everything and person a ace to effort to play our gameplan against nan very best," Care told BBC's Rugby Union Weekly.
"The lads did it a fewer weeks backmost successful Bordeaux successful nan measurement they met occurrence pinch occurrence successful really they started and played nan game, we will effort our champion to do thing similar.
"There is evidently that fearfulness facet that if you spell successful against Toulouse you person to play a 10 retired of 10 crippled to effort to win."
Danny Wilson's broadside are aiming to go nan competition's first caller finalists since Exeter Chiefs successful 2020, but look a reliable situation - they were hammered by Toulouse astatine location successful December during nan excavation stage.
However, successful their quarter-final against Bordeaux, they besides went successful arsenic dense underdogs and produced 1 of nan awesome European distant performances.
Victory for Wilson's broadside would group up astatine last astatine Tottenham Hotspur Stadium connected 25 May against Leinster aliases Northampton Saints, who play connected Saturday astatine Croke Park.
"No-one is going to springiness america immoderate dream and we are good pinch that. It was nan aforesaid pinch nan guys successful Bordeau - not galore thought we could do thing down location isolated from a fewer Quins fans and immoderate of nan players," Care added.
"Everyone will beryllium saying it is Toulouse against Leinster aliases Northampton successful nan last and that is fine. We are happy pinch that."
The 37-year-old, who recently retired from world rugby aft 101 caps for England, missed nan quarter-final triumph but played a cardinal domiciled successful nan last-16 victory complete Glasgow Warriors.
That triumph - successful Care's 18th play astatine nan Stoop - was Quins' first knockout triumph successful Europe's top-tier title successful their history.
"It is thing I ne'er thought I would get to play successful again, a European Cup knockout game, and we person recovered ourselves successful a semi-final successful nan southbound of France," nan scrum-half added.
"It [Sunday] is what dreams are made of."
