Injury worries for bruised Leinster

The sight of Glasgow’s players doing a lap of honour in the wake of defeat in Saturday’s RaboDirect PRO12 play-off captured perfectly the fact this was a game where they had everything to gain and Leinster everything to lose.

Unbackable favourites, the Irish province wanted nothing more than to remove this one from their in-tray with the minimum of fuss and, more importantly, remain injury free ahead of next Saturday’s Heineken Cup final.

Glasgow didn’t oblige. The Scots frustrated their hosts all night with a superb defence borne in no small part by delaying tactics at the ruck. The physical nature of it all was highlighted by the sight of Gordon D’Arcy, Cian Healy and Eoin O’Malley being helped off.