Key duo missing for Racing Metro

Argentina fly-half Juan-Martin Hernandez and French winger Benjamin Fall will not travel with the Racing Metro squad that will face Leinster in the opening round of the Heineken Cup next Saturday at the RDS (kick off: 1:30pm), it was confirmed today.

Summer signings Hernandez, who arrived from Natal Sharks, and Fall, who signed from Bayonne, were absent for their side’s narrow 28-23 loss to Toulouse in the French Championship last weekend and have failed to shake off injuries for the Parisian club’s first ever Heineken Cup match.