Good Friday appeared to fall more in summer than spring time at the Aviva Stadium yesterday, where the vast majority of a remarkable, sun-kissed crowd of 32,604 enjoyed Leinster’s latest rollick in the Heineken Champions Cup.
Their eight tries to three, 56-20 win over Connacht in their Round of 16 second-leg tie neatly maintained their prolific scoring average in this season’s competition and completed an 82-41 aggregate win.
The four-times winners thus secured the safest of safe passages to their sixth quarter-final in a row and 17th in the last 20 seasons, where they will assuredly face Premiership leaders Leicester Tigers at Welford Road.
The Tigers take a 29-10 lead into their second leg Round of 16 tie at home today (kick-off 5.30pm) against a declining and deflated Clermont. Cullen spent two years with Leicester from 2005 …
- April 16, 2022
