Champions Cup final

Nathan Johns guides you through all the action as Leinster look to add their fifth star in Marseille.

Kick-off time, team news and TV and radio coverage details ahead of Leinster v La Rochelle in the Champions Cup final on Saturday.

It’s just that you would have admiration for the way they run [their organisation]." Ronan O'Gara (La Rochelle director of rugby): "I admire the way they [Leinster] play the game. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. "To get to the final two years in a row is not an easy thing to do so credit to them and we are going to be faced with a tough task For Leinster, just five of their starting line-up were on the field in Bilbao when they lifted the trophy n 2018, while Johnny Sexton is the only member of tomorrow's team to have started in each of the five previous finals, with Cian Healy on the bench for the game. Although the French side are in the final for the second year in a row and were impressive winners when the sides met a year ago, Leinster's form this season has gone to another level.

Arthur Rètiere's last-gasp try earned a shock win as the French side won European rugby's biggest prize for the first time.

40 min: A free-kick for Leinster, then a penalty for offside as they try to find a gap in the La Rochelle line. La Rochelle are having to play at their limit to live with Leinster, and I fancy the Irish side’s conditioning will play a big, big part in the second half. That could very easily have been a half-time lead for La Rochelle instead but that is a big, big swing in Leinster’s favour after they won that scrum penalty, ran it down to the other end and made Dulin pay for a high-risk piece of defending near his own line. La Rochelle nail a lineout drive and Bougarit flops over with Leinster unable to deal with the French side’s short-range power. Cullen’s side move the ball from left to right, but their progress is interrupted and Barnes brings it back for yet another easy penalty for Sexton to mop up. 71 min: La Rochelle work through a few phases in the Leinster 22. A try for La Rochelle now and Leinster will need another score to win their fifth Champions Cup. 74 min: Phase after phase of La Rochelle possession as they bash away a couple of metres from the line. They hold firm and Dulin, again, spills a pass with the try-line beckoning when La Rochelle spin the ball left! They were seconds from glory, seconds from winning their fifth Champions Cup. It looked as if Leinster were going to have time to kick off, even after the try, but once West cracked the final conversion over and capped a fine individual performance, it was all over. It’s devastating to lose it that way at the end ... the ball squirts out, and he slips ... it’s devastating, yeah.” But they got the sniff of the try-line that they needed and they are European champions.

Massive underdogs coming into the final, La Rochelle snatched victory at the death when replacement scrum-half Arthur Retiere squirmed his way over from a ...

The second half began with a penalty in front of the posts to La Rochelle from the restart and West hit the mark to cut the gap to two points. That score settled down O’Gara’s men, and they dominated long periods as they enjoyed 60 per cent possession. They had opportunities to score more tries, but the Leinster defence stood firm and the only other score of the first-half were two more Sexton penalties that edged his side into a 12-7 interval lead.

A few ticketless fans were seen trying to gain access to the Stade de France, despite a permanent fence being in place around the perimeter.

Finding it impossible to get in the ground. This appears to be very dangerous. This appears to be very dangerous. The scenes outside the Stade De France are completely chaotic, with a total breakdown of control and communication outside the ground. Absolute carnage." Riot police were in attendance.

La Rochelle face Leinster in the Champions Cup final this weekend with the game kicking off at 4:45pm. It will undoubtedly be a highly competitive game and ...

Leinster ended up cruising to another European title after beating Ulster in the Champions Cup final. "Like I remember a few the Leinster lads, 4 or 5 years on from that saying they watched that semifinal and they watched like us walking around the pitch as if we had actually achieved something. Ferris recalls some of the Leinster players using his side's celebrations as an extra incentive to win the Champions Cup final. "Were we too confident? And you know we walked around the pitch with Ulster flags above our head as if we had actually won something or accomplished something. Ruan Pienaar, World Cup winner.