One thing that a coach looks for when presenting a young player with an opportunity is the aptitude to grasp it, so Leinster coach Leo Cullen will have been delighted with the way flanker Alex Soroka took his complete with the official man-of-the-match accolade in the province’s narrow 20-13 defeat to the Stormers in Cape Town.
The 21-year-old underage international, in just his fourth appearance for Leinster and second this season, produced a towering display in a physically abrasive environment. There is no doubting his talent.
He said in his post-match interview: “There was a lot of chat about us sending a weakened team and [in terms of] the other teams that it was going to be easy for them, so we just wanted to prove everyone wrong. We wanted to show what this team is about even when we were missing a few players, that we could still b …
- May 3, 2022
