Trying time as champions fail to turn the screw

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

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.