After a scoreless first half, Samoan wing David Lemi made the breakthrough with a try on the resumption.
Fly-half Connor converted and landed a penalty and right on half-time wing Stephen John capitalised on a poor Williams drop-out to touchdown wide out with Connor adding the extras.
The Ospreys needed inspiration if they were to get back into the game and sought it by replacing scrum-half Wells with wing Williams and bringing Nikki Walker on to the wing.
Leinster deserved their victory scoring two first-half tries through Irish wing Shane Horgan and full-back Rob Kearney.
The Lions raced to a 15-6 lead with two first-half tries from Wales wing Shane Williams, who was making his first Test start on tour.
There are a host of players unavailable because of injury, including fly-half Jonny Wilkinson, wing James Simpson-Daniel, flanker Lewis Moody, wing David Strettle and full-back Nick Abendanon.
Last month Paterson, who can also play at fly-half or on the wing, relinquished the captaincy at Edinburgh, after three years, with the job to be shared by Allister Hogg and Simon Cross.
Sexton made the score 22-6 just after the start of the second half and although Leinster wing Isa Nacewa was sin-binned on 49 minutes for a high tackle on Alexis Palisson, Brive could not take advantage of the 14 men.
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But Stephen Donald levelled the scores a minute later before the All Blacks took the lead with a wonderful, sweeping move which began inside their own half and finished on the wing by Ross.
The Lions and Ospreys wing had two half-chances and took them in clinical style, scoring first off a charge-down from the excellent Luke Charteris, then snaffling a Fernandez Lobbe grubber to go under the posts.
Three minutes later referee Paul Adams inadvertently obstructed a would-be tackler allowing Howley to dart from a scrum and spark a move which climaxed in a long pass by fly-half Paul Burke for left wing Craig Morgan to score.
He followed that up by getting off the floor to tackle full-back Olly Morgan, yielding a richly deserved penalty for the wing which fly-half Jones landed.
The French side's momentum finally told, the Blues defence stretched by repeated batterings to allow Skrela to send wing Arias into a half gap for a converted try.
The England star darted to the right of a ruck 10m inside the Castres half, stepped past Masoe and wing Rafael Carballo before racing clear to touch down under the posts.
England took the inevitable step of moving Monye from full-back to the wing for the second half and England made a dynamic - at least compared to the first half - start.
The goalscorer was dangerous on the left wing in the second half, producing several good crosses that Kolbeinn Sigtorsson failed to take advantage of, twice heading over the bar in the opening 15 minutes.
But Dr Dial wanted to be sure, so he compared the accomplishments of normal partridges with birds that had their wing feathers clipped to half their normal surface area, and to even less fortunate fowl whose main flight feathers were entirely plucked.
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Essien powerfully headed home the only goal from a Salomon Kalou left-wing cross during the first half.
Wing Simon Danielli, fly half Dan Parks and lock Scott MacLeod are injury doubts but are expected to be fit.
And Alesana Tuilagi secured the bonus point before half-time, a flowing Leicester break from half-way ending with the powerful wing smashing through a couple of tackles to score in the corner.
Wales struggled to keep possession as well as they did in the first half, but captain Davies and left wing-back Chris Gunter showed great energy levels to relieve some pressure by darting down the flanks.
The Dragons' try came from wing Richard Fussell and fly-half Shaun Connor's boot did the rest.
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The Germany Under-21 international controlled a Barnetta's left-wing corner and lashed a powerful half-volley into the bottom-right corner of the net from the edge of the box.
Pietersen reduced the deficit five minutes later as he cut inside from the right wing to link with scrum-half du Preez after a well-worked lineout, but fly-half Ruan Pienaar hit the post with his conversion attempt.
But when 'Sea Bass' is in one of those rampaging moods, it seems no disgrace if the big Frenchman happens to get past, as he did to Moody with one charge down the wing for a try just after half-time.
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Hook, once again struggling with the boot, should have slotted over a three-point attempt early in the second half but it was quickly forgotten as veteran wing Shane Williams, playing in the final World Cup match of his career, produced a moment of magic in the 49th minute.
Maxwell's try came after only three minutes following a penalty by visiting fly-half Dave Slemen, son of the former England wing.
Habana though was in shortly before half-time, cutting in from the left wing on a mazy run to outwit the Samoan defence.
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