Trying time as champions fail to turn the screw

HAD Leinster somehow contrived to lose this one then they need blame nobody but themselves.

Trying time as champions  fail to turn the screw

Poor decision-making in key scoring positions cost them at least three tries and how they managed to finish without a single five-pointer will be something Joe Schmidt will have to address during the week.

Sean O’Brien in particular will have reason to apologise to his team-mates for his failure to deliver a scoring pass with a three-man overlap queuing up on his outside.

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