La Rochelle v Leinster | As it happened

La Rochelle v Leinster | As it happened

Leinster and La Rochelle met in the second fixture of round 3 day 3 in the Champions Cup. The fixture saw a rematch of the dramatc 2023 final. Here is a summary of all the play by pay action.

3'   Leinster were caught offside and immediately punished by La Rochelle's Antoine Hastoy, who sinks in a penalty to give the home team an early lead

11' Leinster's Jamison Gibson-Park's box kick was lost forward from an offside position and Sam Prendergast of Leinster equailises for Leinster

19' Leinster win a turnover after defending over 9 phases in their own 22, and Prendergast finds touch

21' La Rochelle tighthead prop Uini Atonio needed the medic when he went down after a nad collision, however, he was up in no time,


25' Robbie Henshaw gets called for not rolling away after a tackle, which would cost them as Hastoy stepped up to add 3 points for La Rochelle

29' Joe Mcarthy gives Leinster their first lead of the game with a try.


30' Prendergast converts the try

32' Atonio eventually goes off as it seems his knee is too uncomfortable to continue with, and is replaced by Georges-Henri Colombe

33 Hastoy makes an interception that sees him run from end to end to score what La Rochelle thought was their opening try. However, the try was disallowed and deemed to be an offside.

HALFTIME: La Rochelle 6-10 Leinster

48' Prendergast get the first points of the second half a penalty, to extend Leinsters lead.

55' Leinster are penalised for standing the scrum up. Unfortunately, Hastoys attempt bounces off the post. However in a turn of events Leinster knock the ball on in their own 22.

59' Hastoy makes no mistakes this time as he slots in the three points he had missed before.

64' Injury woes for La Rochelle as Cancioret limps off due to an issue with his ankle and is replaced with Hadad.

65' Former Springbok Dillon Lleyds scores La Rochelle's first try of the game after latching onto a cross-kick and then picking up his own grubber kick to score.

66' Hastoy misses the conversion.

67' Ross Byrne misses a what would a have been a lead extending penalty for Leinster.

75' New Zealand's Jordie Barrett also failed to extend Leinster's lead after his penalty attempt from more than 40 metres went wide. 

78' Hastoys attempt at snatchng the win for La Rochelle falls short from his kick from the tee.

79' The home side don't give up fight as they hold up the Leinster in a maul and win the scrum in drop goal range

80' Josh van der Vlier charges down Hastoys drop goal attempt 

80+3' La Rochelle lose the ball forward and lose the match.




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