22-4-19 champions cup
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS
CUP SEMIS
LEINSTER 30-12 TOLOUSE
FREEKY FRADY
Prop Cian Healy and London Irish-bound flanker Sean O'Brien
showed fine individual skill as their crisp hands helped spring Lowe for the
first try on 14 minutes.
With Toulouse second row Richie Gray sin-binned for a
cynical knock-on at the base of a ruck, Leinster exploited their man advantage
with a mammoth driven maul from which McGrath emerged with the ball and score.
The home side's defence was equally well-judged. Robbie
Henshaw's knock-on under his own post earned him a yellow card of his own, but
averted a likely try with Charlie Faumuina poised to thunder into contact.
MY
OPINION
This shows the damage that the
Irish Provence can do but for a lot of people it was a surprise that the French
side wer3e there. The tribes were what made the difference and the fact that
Leinster scored 3 and Toulouse couldn’t score any
SARACENS 32 16 MUNSTER
VIBRANT VUNOPOLA
Owen Farrell nudged four penalties to Tyler Bleyendaal’s two
and a single Conor Murray hit before a relentless second half from the north
Londoners.
The second half began in similar vain to the first with
Saracens from the off, though this time they made the pressure count. Phase
after phase, every carrier edging closer to the whitewash and Rhodes was the
man to finally break free to score.
Farrell’s conversion was good and he ticked the scoreboard
over with two tee-shots to add further breathing space between the two teams.
On the hour, Munster attempted a reply but a monstrous
defensive set thwarted those in red just inches out. Full Wolfpack mode. Though
the visitors would get on the try-sheet moments later when Sweetnam found space
on the outside to cross and JJ Hanrahan slotted the extras.
But it didn’t rattle Sarries who rallied to put the contest
to bed. An excellent take from self-proclaimed bomb defuser Williams and the
brilliant Strettle’s slalom moved the two-time winners up the field and
Vunipola showed great strength to place on the stretch.
MY
OPINION
This to me says that Munster can
beat anyone on their day but when the Saracens decide to start looking they are
unstoppable as a forced and that second half back the fact up completely. There
are few teams that can do something like that in such a short period of time.
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