Fitzgerald keeps Leinster’s dream alive

THE Leinster sports psychologists and chaplins will be kept busy this week.

The province’s seven-point victory over the French kingpins coupled with Leicester Tigers’ shock defeat to Edinburgh keeps alive hopes of a Heineken Cup quarter-final berth.

To prevent those hopes from extinguishing, Michael Cheika’s side must win away to the wounded Tigers in their final Pool 6 match and then hope Andy Robinson’s side can produce another giant-killing act at Stade Ernest Wallon on Saturday. Even then, Toulouse could progress.

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