Every time La Rochelle staged a mini revival, Leinster found a riposte
, moments that threatened to release the gremlins of European knockout defeats past but on this occasion they mustered a more than adequate response to those pressure points.
Jamison Gibson-Park tried to use James Lowe’s power to sneak a try in the corner, but the visitors managed to hold the Leinster wing up over the line. Several minutes later and it was the Leinster’s scrumhalf who was denied by a double tackle from Grégory Alldritt and Tolu Latu, Gibson-Park adjudged, following TMO Tom Foley’s review, to have been held up over the line.
And then. In first-half injury-time Leinster conceded three penalties on the bounce, which gave La Rochelle the field position from which they eventually worked a maul try for prop Louis Penverne. Hastoy converted to put a much brighter slant on the scoreboard.
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