Johnny Sexton starts as three Leinster players set to make Champions Cup debuts

Ulster, meanwhile, will be missing Marcell Coetzee for Sunday’s quarter-final at Toulouse

Leinster’s Hugo Keenan and Will Connors are the two European debutants in the starting XV. Picture: INPHO/James Crombie

Johnny Sexton will return to captain Leinster for their Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final with Saracens on Saturday, the Ireland skipper one of four changes to the starting XV which defeated Ulster in last weekend’s Guinness PRO14 final.

Head coach Leo Cullen has restored scrum-half Luke McGrath and fly-half Sexton to the nine and 10 jerseys at the expense of Jamison Gibson-Park and Ross Byrne, the half-backs who steered Leinster to a third straight PRO14 title in a 27-5 defeat of Ulster at Aviva Stadium last Saturday.