Leinster Rugby

Gloucester host Leinster at Kingsholm in the third matchday of the European Champions Cup. The Pool A clash sees eighth-placed Gloucester looking for ...

You will need to have a subscription to BT Sport, which starts at £8.50 for the first six months, and £17 per month thereafter. They've collected the most amount of points along with Exeter Chiefs in second place. You can also live stream the game using the BT Sport app. You can live stream the game on smart phone, tablet or desktop on ITV X, but you will need an account and TV license in order to do so. The game kicks off at 1pm on Saturday, January 14th at the Kingsholm Stadium. Gloucester host Leinster at Kingsholm in the third matchday of the European Champions Cup.

All the build-up, team news, live play-by-play match updates, reaction, analysis, stats and highlights from Kingsholm.

The line out from Dan Sheehan is thrown long to Ryan Baird on the crash. Leinster tap and go. The Cherry and Whites come into the game having lost 57-0 against Leinster last time out in the Champions Cup after head coach George Skivington sent a second team to Dublin on a controversial move. A scrum penalty for the home pack allows Santi Carreras to arrow the ball into the Leinster half. The Cherry and Whites looks to switch the direction of play and spread the ball wide with a misspass to Lewis Ludlow on the wing but the skipper can't hold onto the tough pass and the pill goes into touch. The backrower is just stopped and a couple of phases later George McGuigan competes for the ball at a ruck and Leinster go off their feet trying to clear it out to concede a penalty. Moments later the ball is worked down the blindside and Hugo Keenan has a one on one with George Barton thanks to a clever slap pass from Ross Byrne and the Irish full back puts in a hitch kick and steps his way beyond down the touchline and score. But the Cherry and Whites were playing with a penalty advantage and kicked to the corner, executed their lineout and set the maul drive only for Caelan Doris to bring it down illegally. The Shed thought Jonny May was over for a try moments earlier after bursting onto a pass from Ollie Thorley and speeding over but the pass from Thorley was clearly forward. Billy Twelvetrees kicks his side into the corner from a penalty but for once the catch and drive game malfunctions with Gloucester putting blockers in front of their maul. Ronan Kelleher is over from a catch and drive, the maul rolls down the blindside to put the replacemennt hooker over. Leinster secure their position at the top of Pool A with a dominant display.

A busy day of Heineken Champions Cup continues as Munster face Northampton Saints at Thomond Park, live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player, with live commentary on RTÉ ...

They run the ball from inside their own half, Smith finding Hutchinson in oceans of space down the right. That could be a big moment. 67: Munster withstand 12 phases of pressure on their own tryline to keep Northampton out. - 16:54 He kicks a penalty to touch but is hobbling badly afterwards. - 16:56

A match report from Kingsholm as Leinster Rugby beat Gloucester Rugby 49-14 in the Heineken Champions Cup on 14 January 2023.

They tapped and drove for Doris to register the bonus-point try, Byrne’s extras taking them to 28-7 at the break. But, Gloucester’s hard-up defence caused a knock-on. Their maul was disciplined and their defence of the line was accurate enough to hold Val Rapava-Ruskin up for a dropout.

United Rugby Championship organisers have confirmed Leinster will not face any punishment for the playing of controversial Wolfe Tones song Celtic Symphony ...

“On January 3, the United Rugby Championship wrote to Leinster Rugby to seek a full explanation related to the playing of the song Celtic Symphony to examine a potential breach of disciplinary rules,” a URC statement read. Leinster, whose players were filmed singing the song on a flight home from Glasgow after winning the PRO14 title in 2019, will not face a similar financial penalty after issuing their explanation. In December, the Ireland women’s soccer team were fined €20,000 for chanting ‘Ooh Ah, Up the Ra!’ in the Hampden Park dressing room after they beat Scotland to qualify for the World Cup.

Leinster cruised into the Heineken Champions Cup round of 16 after sweeping aside Gloucester 49-14 at Kingsholm.

Centre [Garry Ringrose](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/garry-ringrose/) returned to captain Leinster, while prop [Cian Healy](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/cian-healy/) was set to make his 100th appearance for the province after being named among the replacements. But Leinster finished strongly and current world player of the year van der Flier collected a 71st-minute touch down. Gloucester needed a response and it arrived 15 minutes before half time when they drove a lineout to within sight of Leinster’s line. Leinster were off and running inside four minutes, slicing open Gloucester’s defence from a short-range lineout as Larmour touched down unchallenged, with Byrne’s conversion making it 7-0. Fly-half [Ross Byrne](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/ross-byrne/) converted all four scores and, although Gloucester claimed two penalty tries from collapsed mauls, it was damage limitation from an early stage. With eight teams qualifying from each of two pools, Gloucester could still reach the Champions Cup knockout phase if they beat Bordeaux in France next weekend. [Heineken Champions Cup](https://www.rugbypass.com/european-champions-cup/) round of 16 after sweeping aside Gloucester 49-14 at Kingsholm. [Santiago Carreras](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/santiago-carreras/) was yellow-carded for a deliberate knock-on. [Gallagher Premiership](https://www.rugbypass.com/premiership/) opponents Saracens, with [George Barton](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/george-barton/) replacing full-back [Lloyd Evans](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/lloyd-evans/) and [Seb Atkinson](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/seb-atkinson/) starting at inside centre instead of Giorgi Kveseladze. [Hugo Keenan](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/hugo-keenan/) crossed early in the second period for a try that Byrne again converted, then flanker Josh van der Flier touched down, with replacement [Harry Byrne](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/harry-byrne/) adding the extras. [Harry Byrne](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/harry-byrne/), leaving Gloucester to reflect on their heaviest home defeat in top-flight European competition. [Jordan Larmour](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/jordan-larmour/), prop Michael Ala’alatoa, centre [Jamie Osborne](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/jamie-osborne/) and number eight Caelan Doris.