Ronan O’Gara’s European kingpins will be out to double down on last year’s final win at the Aviva Stadium
Leinster's Jamison Gibson-Park with his daughter Iris after the victory over Leicester in the Investec Champions Cup Round of 16 at the Aviva Stadium. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inphocoaches and players won’t be oblivious to the shortcomings of what was a scruffy performance at times against a game Leicester Tigers side that caused their hosts sufficient discomfort to make the review an occasionally painful watch.
Some of Leinster’s tackling wasn’t robust enough, the defending sometimes lacked cohesion and trust to a point, which the Tigers exploited and might have done so to an even greater extent with more accurate handling.Cullen acknowledged: “It’s doing the basics well, making sure we exit well, don’t put yourself under unnecessary pressure. That’s what big knock-out games are about, executing the basics under pressure, so we need to make sure we execute the basics better than we did at times.
Joe McCarthy, Dan Sheehan, Robbie Henshaw, and Hugo Keenan also stood tall, but few escaped the general malaise. Leinster absorbed the concession of an early try to Handre Pollard, the catalyst for which was a break and offload by the excellent former Munster prop James Cronin, who had a fine game, to forge a 15-7 lead.
Henshaw’s intercept try and another for Jack Conan ensured that there were no palpitations among the 40,000 spectators, even when Tigers replacement hooker Charlie Clare benefited from a Leinster lineout malfunction.
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