Whoever responds best to rugby’s oldest question could prevail in Saturday’s Champions Cup final
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A lot of elite team sport is about how much physical and mental pain each individual is willing to inflict on themselves in order to achieve their collective goal. The emotional pain Leinster have been forced to endure in the past 36 months, across both the Champions Cup and the URC, is truly unimaginable.once again smashed Leinster hearts, I thought this team cannot rise again. Even the toughest competitors have their limit.
Yet, no matter how much I admire Leinster’s courage and hope that they will finally be rewarded with a victory, in my heart I am not confident that they will avoid yet another devastating disappointment. In the last 20 minutes of the 2019 final against Saracens, Leinster failed to score a point. Regrettably, this has developed into a pattern. In the same time period during the 2022 final against La Rochelle, Leinster kicked a lone penalty goal.
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