Leinster live off scraps to stay alive and kicking
What a cracking opener to the weekend quarter-final action, with what looked like the tie of the quarter-finals living up to its billing.
In so many ways, this was a remarkable game. Leinster somehow managed to conjure a win without any semblance of a set-piece in the second half, when their scrum was dismantled. Michael Cheika’s decision to withdraw CJ Van der Linde for Cian Healy with Stan Wright moving from loose-head to tight-head backfired badly. In addition, Leinster only had three lineouts and as a consequence, their attack was starved of possession.
