After such an entertaining first half, which finished 19-21, Leinster have completely dominated Bath in this second half to win 47-21.
It’s heartbreak for the visitors who now finish fifth in Pool 2 following Benetton’s victory over La Rochelle and they consequently fail to advance to the knockout stages.
Ojomoh’s second yellow card at 26-21 did Bath no favours but Leinster’s quality just proved too much in the end.
Leinster scored 7 tries and Bath 3.
Lets take a deeper look at the 2nd try Bath scored
1. Bath have a scrum on Leinsters 5m, between the right upright and 15m line.
2. Bath win the right shoulder battle which means Jack Conan(8) is totally out and Max Deegan(6) has more meters to cover
3. Finn Russel and Tom de Glanville start behind the scrum and once Ben Spencer picked up, they attacked the blind side.
4. Ollie Lawrence, who started on the blind, runs a short and hard line between Sam Prendergast and Robbie Henshaw. This makes the two defenders wait for a split second and that leads to more room on the outside.
5. Spencer plays Russel behind Lawrence. Because of Lawrence's line, Prendergast could not move out so Henshaw needs to go for Russell. Russel plays de Glanville who is outside of him.
6. Jamie Osborne, who was covering Joe Cokanasiga, now needs to step in to tackle de Glanville.
7. To close the line, de Glanville uses his power and momentem to break the tackle of Osborne and score.
Extras
It was a very simple setup from Bath. If they played to the left, Jamison Gibson-Park would have been an extra defender.
Because Lawrence ran such a hard line, the two defenders had to wait until the pass was behind him and that opened up the space on the outside.
If Henshaw shifted out earlier, Spencer would have played Lawrence and from that close range, one would think his power would have taken him over the line.
Simple but effective set play from Bath to score their 2nd trypic.twitter.com/bHQUXdXYe3
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