Leinster Rugby

The four-time winners are through to the last eight after beating Ulster 30-15 in very wet conditions at the Lansdowne Road ground.

"There were a lot of selections this week for guys who were unlucky to miss out of the 23. "It's good to see the guys push each other on." "A big thanks to everyone who turned out to be at the game today. We'll take a breath and look forward to that." We'll need it again this week, Leicester are a very gritty team, and we'll need to make sure we're at our best." "It's an Interpro, it's Europe, and we're out now," he said. Ulster are a very, very good team and they made us work in a lot of facets. A great challenge ahead." There are things we talk about, in terms of pressurising the opposition, which is important. They've applied themselves as a group well, it's not just the 23, it's the guys preparing the team. It's looking ahead straight away, after such a long lead into this game, we have a short lead into the next game. "They dug in defensively really, really well, and made life difficult for us.

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Ulster’s attack brought nothing to the party, while by the time they got their maul moving it was too late. Jeff Toomaga Allen (4) couldn’t change the narrative at scrum-time, 0John Cooney (5) was chasing and mistakes followed. Harry Sheridan (6) came on and threw himself at Leinster bodies, but ultimately got too keen and was lucky to see yellow. Ulster needed to get the ball in his hands, but the conditions rendered him a spectator. Worked his try well from the maul. Made one of his two goal-kicks. However, he couldn’t build on that moment and faded. The result was effectively beyond doubt when they were introduced, but none of them looked out of place. At the top of his game. Two scrum penalties went his way, he was big in contact. He was everywhere. The biggest compliment you could pay him is that Leinster didn’t miss Caelan Doris one bit.

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It was his second carry in the same move that crucially tempted the yellow-carded interference from Hume that helped tilt the scoreboard balance. Another grand moment was his turnover penalty win at the start of the second period. His highlights were the 46th-minute lineout steal with Ulster camped in the Leinster 22, and he later charged down a After that, his evasive carrying came to the fore and it was his tapped penalty from five metres that was the gambit for the Porter settler. All eight first-half throws worked out and he was then class when back-peddling to tidy up a Won’t want to see his 43rd-minute knock-on again, the ball behaving like a bar of soap, but his well-finished try from close-range ended the battle on 63. Another who endured an injury-hit Six Nations, he was very busy giving his Leinster forwards momentum with his wristy passing against an obdurate opponent. Was then more prominent with the hands in the second half before two more conversions helped to see his side home despite the wobble that was his overcooked restart after the Herring try. One of the current two non-Test players in the XV, he had very limited involvement. An injury-hit Ireland campaign gave way to him scoring the try that fractured England’s resistance, but this was a more awkward affair. It wasn’t an overly swashbuckling display by the host team’s usual stylish all-court standards, but they toughed it out impressively to be fully deserving winners. There was no need for behind-the-goal water slides, sideline dancers and all the other off-pitch entertainment seen from the earlier-in-the-day round-of-16 games in South Africa.

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“But on the day, you’ve got to be able to execute to a really, really high level and be really precise when you’re playing a team like Leinster because there was barely a gimme today. So that was probably the story of it.” I thought the preparation from the support staff and the players during the week in the lead-up to this game was excellent. In the past you’d have a couple of weeks’ lead-in into this game.” “You see the way England played here a couple of weeks ago, that sort of Steve Borthwick template. A big thanks to everyone who turned out to be at the game today.”

Ulster exit the Heineken Champions Cup after an enthralling encounter at the Aviva Stadium against interprovincial rivals Leinster.