Champions Cup team news: Leinster missing Johnny Sexton and Tadhg Furlong for daunting French opener

Leo Cullen has named nine of the XV that started that decider loss to Ronan O’Gara’s side in Marseille last May

BLOW: Leinster's Johnny Sexton misses out. 

Leinster will have to start their latest Heineken Champions Cup campaign away to Racing 92, one of France’s leading lights without the services of Johnny Sexton or Tadhg Furlong.

The Ireland pair were injury concerns approaching this week with Sexton nursing a calf issue picked up prior to the Test against Australia last month and Furlong hampered by a hamstring problem suffered last week against Ulster.