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00:00:00It's come final as the underdogs, but they are the underdogs and rightly so because Bordeaux not alone defending champions
00:00:06But the excellence that they've shown consistently over the last two seasons rightfully makes them favorites today
00:00:16This game has got nothing to do with last night but everything to do with it
00:00:21Leo Collins sat inside this stadium last night and saw what physical damage Montpellier did to Ulster
00:00:29And he would have walked out of the samamesh thinking right there is one message that i'm going to give
00:00:33to my players in the morning
00:00:35once we've had our breakfast
00:00:38Mentally physically you've got to be on point
00:00:44So then there's the man in charge lots of pressure on him always is but on the big occasion even
00:00:48more so carl dixon gets his first
00:00:50Invested champions cup final and deservedly so christoph ridley and holly davidson will run the lines
00:00:56Marius van der west season the south african is our television match official
00:01:19It's a boiling pot in bilbao
00:01:23five-star linster or back-to-back bordeaux hold on tight the ride starts right now
00:01:34And settling into this game and getting to the emotional pitch
00:01:38It is going to be crucial for both these sides but
00:01:42As we were talking pre-match tom the experience there no one's going to get overawed you feel by this
00:01:48A sabre and the lions fullback drops a straight forward catch
00:01:54We saw a bit of this last night didn't we early on
00:01:58Just the nerves of the occasion
00:02:01Catching hugo keenan out
00:02:04We talk about emotional pitch it's such a fine balance between
00:02:09In any professional sport getting that emotional pitch right and then going too far you go too far
00:02:14It's a very very steep slide into into a game where you're uncomfortable
00:02:21You're not at all settled in the way that you're trying to play the game and you feel out of
00:02:25your comfort zone
00:02:27mentally on edge means that you're really really alert about what's going on
00:02:31You're you're aware of exactly what's going on around you other people are wanting to do
00:02:36Everything you've practiced during the week is focused in your mind. This is now all about accuracy and detail
00:02:45If you're joining us a little late that the voice of tom may
00:02:53Bordeaux are going to get an early free kick and they will want to keep the tempo up and leinster
00:02:58Will go after them defensively everything about leinster this season has been about the ninenbauer
00:03:04Defensive system that they've adopted if they get it right they can smother the best
00:03:09If you get it wrong and even marginally wrong you can find yourself under your own posts regularly
00:03:23Like 28 degrees kickoff quite as humid or as warm as last night but still nonetheless a factor
00:03:30All bubbling around a little bit more than either coach would like is that I see some advantage
00:03:37See what else he is
00:03:39gobbled up
00:03:45Takes it is going to be a huge influence defensive line outs for bordeaux
00:03:53This one he's talking about
00:03:58The screens come that he was
00:04:01Interfered with bordeaux have turned that over when leinster took it in
00:04:05And immediately walkie
00:04:07It's a big levers of his free almost got it to luke who it's there with him now
00:04:11Lamont the hooker three times help for france drags it in jala bear magnificent so often
00:04:18He makes the engine purr
00:04:22lucu
00:04:23jala bear
00:04:24Pings it in behind drives leinster back into their 22
00:04:29Brilliant kick from jala bear
00:04:31Rico juani just coming up really quickly to shut off those outside passing channels
00:04:35And when you see that as a playmaker it just it forces you into making the decision to put the
00:04:41ball on the foot
00:04:42That said
00:04:43Leinster in this position
00:04:46probably gonna
00:04:47Be slightly pragmatic win the ball clear their lines bordeaux likely to get the ball back
00:04:55So then line outs defensive line out keep an eye on walkie wearing seven
00:04:59They'll try and get him in the air and they'll try and get him to disrupt
00:05:03mccarthy does well for leinster
00:05:07Jack homie or in fact caitlin durris
00:05:10No, no, no, no, he's the one who takes it into contact
00:05:12affected by the plan on the floor
00:05:13He hits everywhere you'd expect that as gibson park pumps it downfield
00:05:18And that is well
00:05:21Absolutely inch perfect from the leinster and ireland
00:05:25Well, I think when you look at both teams
00:05:29Both maxime lucu and jameson gibson park you'd expect it as a nine but their core skills
00:05:35Their ability to manage that space in and around the breakdowns their kicking skills and their and their game management
00:05:43Is what sets them apart. I think as players really good good controllers in those
00:05:48Positions for our teams
00:05:52It's been a cagey opening five minutes or so
00:05:55Straight to the middle that's one dominant spell
00:06:02That's really dealt with that physically
00:06:05Extremely well and those little moments early clarkson involved preferred to furlong as I said at the outset, but those
00:06:12little moments
00:06:12Particularly early on
00:06:14And particularly
00:06:16Against the top 14 side are so important
00:06:18There's a lot of a lot of pressure on the side
00:06:20They've got to set a standard early for that man there carl dixon. He
00:06:24Obviously will come into this game and say well i'll take it as it comes and i'll make my my
00:06:28decisions and i'll take them
00:06:29As i see them but actually if leinster can start to just put that seed of doubt into carl dixon's
00:06:35mind
00:06:35In and around the set piece or potentially areas where bordeaux think as in that pack weight shows
00:06:41They might have the upper hand then that will work in their favor
00:06:45Second best scrum in the competition just behind toulouse
00:06:50And they will feel that this is an area they can go a little bit so he can get a
00:06:55bind
00:06:55I know you're very high but just need a little bit
00:06:57Of course of course i understand but he can't get over to get a bind
00:07:01Yeah, but he can't bind before
00:07:02I agree
00:07:03Okay, let's go
00:07:06I'm going as loud as I can
00:07:10Patience don't jump
00:07:14Rico Ioani tucked right in behind
00:07:17Harry Byrne in that 10 shirt today
00:07:21Constant threat he got three big midfielders there robbie henshaw
00:07:25Gary ring rose rico ioani used to playing in the settings as well physical threats
00:07:31Ioani was brought to leinster for days just like this and leinster have done really well in that opening scrum
00:07:38Ruby henshaw gets forward momentum gibson park and
00:07:43Leinster set about their first defensive set
00:07:46Or attacking set bordeaux in defensive mode gibson park
00:07:51Henshaw did well harry byrne couldn't control it
00:07:56But didn't knock it forward according to the referee
00:08:02Thought about a narrow side for a moment did gibson park fought better of us now might try and exploit
00:08:09it
00:08:15Let's go the ball let go now let go let go and tried to steal it didn't get there
00:08:19Slow ball for leinster to operate off so they go to the big man
00:08:26Again bordeaux feel like they could have got it at the breakdown well their supporters do leinster not so much
00:08:31gibson park
00:08:32Little gap door shut firmly in his face
00:08:35But not before the momentum continued forward jack conan got a yard slows down ball, but still there for leinster
00:08:44Five meters short now. It hasn't been perfect, but it's been effective ring rose absolutely smashed in the tackle
00:08:52Gibson park again narrow side harry byrne up quickly came lucu to take the legs from over
00:08:59Seven and a half minutes gone and leinster looking for the first try as andrew porter goes
00:09:05right to ground
00:09:07Great defensive set from bordeaux just refusing to let leinster get any sort of yardage on any of those carries
00:09:16Up quickly came moe fan on that occasion, but leinster have been patient and they continue to work hard after
00:09:23it again
00:09:24goes buckwood down, but he can't get his hands on it leinster relentless
00:09:29Bordeaux brilliance in defense, but they might have numbers now leinster
00:09:33Tommy O'Brien they do have numbers what a try what a try
00:09:40They built and built
00:09:45And eventually bordeaux's dam was burst
00:09:51It's a good finish from tommy o'brien but that's all about
00:09:55The confidence and patience in leinster's attacking game
00:10:00They gave bordeaux a dose of their own medicine big ball carries
00:10:05Wrote some big big defensive collisions which were coming in from all angles from bordeaux
00:10:11And if you've just asked saying that he's been treated and tommy o'brien
00:10:15I've just asked i said number eight in those wide channels when you're giving that space there's no way he's
00:10:19given that opportunity
00:10:26Now harry byrne from way out wide
00:10:33That's a great kick not the one you want first time up
00:10:39From wide out right
00:10:45Change for bordeaux after all that timo
00:10:49Matthew comes in for bogotan who's gone for a blood injury tommy o'brien
00:10:55Wasn't able to play there was a real doubt about him injured during the week
00:11:04And as you'd expect bordeaux coming straight back at them
00:11:11Bordeaux were defending getting two into both those tackles one low one high they're trying to
00:11:16Really physically dominate leinster in those areas, but the patience which
00:11:21leinster
00:11:22That was what enabled them to continue to get around the corner have those numbers. It was a brilliant ball
00:11:28from ring rose
00:11:29They want to keep maintaining that patience as they go through this game
00:11:34Bordeaux up as we expected competing in the line out and throw leinster
00:11:40off guard
00:11:41And they have a terrific attacking opportunity and boy, do they have the artillery
00:11:46Into the 22 back it goes
00:11:51Almost there
00:11:52Overti
00:11:53Up his way look who needs it look who wants it
00:11:56Four four sides taken on by palu offside against leinster massive opportunity to strike straight back
00:12:05Surely it'll come
00:12:09Air walkie in the corner
00:12:17We're gonna have a look at this
00:12:20Either way, we'll go back if the try isn't awarded for a penalty to bordeaux
00:12:26But this game has bubbled up in the opening 11 minutes and it's been blown off the hinges
00:12:34Well, you could see exactly what was going through
00:12:37Cameron walkie's mind as he got the ball
00:12:40He knew he was under pressure
00:12:43He saw a bit of this last night
00:12:53That for a big man is an extraordinary finish
00:12:58The physics is that the left hand is in touch
00:13:01The left hand is what I think
00:13:05Marius Bester this season is looking at
00:13:09Is his hand on the line is a question there
00:13:16The left arm of the left hand is clearly in touch
00:13:20Prior to the ball being grounded
00:13:22Okay, so it's no try
00:13:23Matter of millimeters
00:13:28Okay, the left hand of the pair is in touch
00:13:30So it's no try
00:13:32He's gonna be hyper critical here
00:13:35That last pass from Maxime Lamont
00:13:39He's a hooker doesn't necessarily have to throw 15 meter left-hand passes
00:13:43But it was above the head of Cameron walkie and that just split second would have made the difference
00:13:52Keep an eye on the hand was so close
00:14:00Walkie still doesn't believe it nor do the bordeaux supporters
00:14:09Well you complain and you can do all you want but it's clear as day
00:14:16Just adds a little bit more spice
00:14:19In the one is already a hot occasion
00:14:23Six
00:14:29Six
00:14:32So then Maxime Lamont
00:14:36To
00:14:37The bordeaux
00:14:38Line out and they go to the front and mccarthy gets a big hand in there
00:14:42Knocks it forwards
00:14:45But from leinster's perspective disrupts the immediate attacking opportunity
00:14:51But this is bordeaux and there are plenty of those walkie will have the bit between his teeth even firmer
00:14:57and I'm feeling a sense of injustice
00:15:00New corners is over now
00:15:02Advantage over for the
00:15:03That's all right
00:15:05And now there's advantage for
00:15:07Offside against leinster so with the free play again for bordeaux
00:15:14Big carry
00:15:16Coleman
00:15:18Then it's his second row part Rupalu
00:15:2112 offside
00:15:22The ferocity of the hits in defense from both sides
00:15:25You can feel them from way up here
00:15:30Lucu gets his hands on it
00:15:33To substitute Mathieu but
00:15:36We're gonna go back
00:15:37For the offside
00:15:40And it'll be a penalty pretty much in front of the posts against Robby Henshaw
00:15:49Bordeaux attacking in exactly the same manner that Montpellier did last night
00:15:53Tightening everything up they're gonna do
00:15:55Exactly the same here
00:15:57Tap and go
00:15:59Back their physical powers
00:16:05Clearly tap the ball
00:16:06Sadie wears three palu
00:16:09Quiro behind him and Lamothe as well
00:16:13All the big beasts of the jungle are assembled to start bordeaux on their way
00:16:25And then the gap opens and in goes the boss
00:16:32Lucu
00:16:34Leinster were able to repel but only for so long a little pump of the arm
00:16:39From the Petit Generale
00:16:41And Bordeaux
00:16:43Will level this one up with the conversion
00:16:50Exactly what Bordeaux
00:16:52Would have wanted from their captain
00:16:56They love him in Bordeaux
00:16:59You can hear them shouting his name in the streets of Bilbao
00:17:04As we're making our way up to the stadium
00:17:07He's so good in those areas to spot a little gap and that's all it takes
00:17:11It doesn't have to be much when you've just battered the door down for the past five minutes
00:17:17Good clean ball clean pickup
00:17:20Tuck it and just get low
00:17:23In the two nines
00:17:25On show today starting nines
00:17:28Well they are the pick of the bunch in world rugby of course there are others that will put their
00:17:34hands up to that throne
00:17:42Just took too much out of it we've talked about the pitch
00:17:45And the dead ball area in particular it's it's at the margins of being
00:17:50The smallest available within regulation
00:17:54Sam Prendergast looks on how he would love to be out there today
00:17:57The second half of the season just not going his way in terms of performance
00:18:04Certainly on this pitch I mean from our position you wouldn't say the actual infield looks any smaller than
00:18:09than any other field but certainly one area the dead ball is absolutely tiny
00:18:16Walking on pitch side prior to this game it's a great condition as you'd expect
00:18:23But that dead ball area really does narrow up your opportunities for attacking kicks
00:18:29Doesn't mean you get out of jail quite as easily if you over hit one
00:18:33The support here is just fantastic
00:18:37Bordeaux about a three hour drive away
00:18:40Leinster have found their way in numbers as well
00:18:46Taken on by the reyasi eventually put to ground and lucu and jala bear will go about their business
00:18:52There's a sense that
00:18:54Bordeaux are warming to the task in terms of ball in hand leinster
00:18:58very close to being offside
00:19:01Got away with it sheehan
00:19:05The lbra kicks and it goes dead now blbra said a hand was on that it may have been keener
00:19:17Makes a fundamental difference to what happens next i'm asking i'm asking just asking about being touched
00:19:21No i don't think so
00:19:23Not on that evidence i know but it's stationed for a long time we've got to use it
00:19:3320. Can't get that surely
00:19:38Clear as day if you've got a purple shirt on in the stands
00:19:44Okay so it's a five meter stun
00:19:46Hey they're not blinking are they the french fans i love it
00:19:49Caelan oh i think it might have hit his little finger
00:19:52The ball was touched it's a five meter scrum club
00:19:55And you know what consistency key from the officiating team
00:20:00And in fairness to carl dixon and mario vannevestezen
00:20:05They call the walkie try on a marginal call the right call and that is the right call
00:20:10In favour of bordeaux on this occasion
00:20:16Well they've ripped up the christmas cards and now they're all sticking them back together
00:20:19Let's run
00:20:24Pierre bockotin is back in the game wearing six
00:20:28For bordeaux he had a blood injury about 10 minutes ago matthew back on the bench
00:20:48Let's go then
00:20:51The lbla loitering with intense
00:20:57It wouldn't be the normal style of try that he scores
00:21:01He's carting the ball up over over the trial line from that position
00:21:04But there's an additional threat that close to the line for sure
00:21:08advantage and bordeaux get the nuts and the scrum and then they get the advantage and now
00:21:12They can go whatever way they want and the way they want is home and hose out wide
00:21:18Uberti finishes made by the pack created by the passing of three quarters and finished by Paolo Uberti
00:21:30Well that was a brilliant attacking play
00:21:35Attacking threats everywhere decoys that were working everyone was an option
00:21:40And ultimately it meant Enrico Ioane had to come off his line watch him here just on that near post
00:21:45He flies off the line
00:21:47But he's so narrow he's disconnected
00:21:50From that outside channel and that's what opens up the space on the width and that ball from Riyasi
00:21:55Slightly different to the one from Lamott that we saw slightly earlier on
00:21:59In the bread basket
00:22:02Well the ninon bar defensive system be it for south africa or be it for leinster is a high wire
00:22:09act
00:22:12And if you're wobble
00:22:14Well the best in the business will make you pay
00:22:16And bordeaux are the best in the business
00:22:2214 points to seven bordeaux lead and on the day that's in it we're going to have a couple of
00:22:28minutes
00:22:29Water break and rightly so
00:22:32You'd have to say
00:22:34Enrico Ioane is in a really difficult position there you're that close to your line
00:22:37You can't sit there and wait for them to run it. You have to come forward
00:22:41He's just come forward and he's picked the wrong line. He's tried to over read the play
00:22:47Incredibly difficult to do it with just five meters to play with
00:22:53It's been a terrifically engaging opening quarter both sides have acquitted themselves
00:23:02both in attack and defense so well and it's the finest of margins talk about the walkie disallowed try
00:23:09You talk about the
00:23:11Bare touch of hugo keenan's hand that gives that scrum to
00:23:17Bordeaux from which they profit
00:23:20These the tries that we've seen so far tommy o'brien's try the end of
00:23:27So many phases of excellence from leinster walkie. Oh
00:23:32Brilliant finish put a fingernail in touch
00:23:36Luku saw the gap and exploited it
00:23:40And last but not least in the opening quarter this pass
00:23:47From rayasi and as easy as it could be for uberti. It's a good line as well from rayasi because
00:23:54The lbra is coming really hard on his inside
00:23:59But he's as he's coming from that near side to open. He obviously gets in the eye line of those
00:24:05defensive players
00:24:07And it just means that rayasi can move off the ball just once twice half a yard
00:24:12That's all it takes and then you're in that sort of outer channel really opens up the field then
00:24:33That's the tail of the tape right now
00:24:37Possession
00:24:40Bordeaux's
00:24:41Scoreboard crucially Bordeaux's and it feels in a game of two heavyweights like this
00:24:46When you take one you've got to give one back real quick because a two score gap
00:24:53In a final like this
00:24:55Feels like it would be significant in terms of momentum
00:25:00Hugo keenan and i think about it such a good good great great great is huge
00:25:07Most coaches are happy with having an exit
00:25:11Which ends up with them being on the 50 meter line on the halfway line it's sailed past
00:25:38It's been a helter skelter opening quarter
00:25:41I feel that lencer might be happy just to take the sting out of this one a little bit
00:25:46Maybe not kayland doris could you please
00:25:49James ryan adds his considerable bulk to the back and gibson park goes to the air
00:25:55blbl a and tommy o'brien are going to have a go at this
00:25:59And that one i think was not forward but the referee says nothing clear bordeaux ball
00:26:07No change really out of kayland doris lucu down jelly bear
00:26:13Little tinkers lencer came on but really well read by ring rose and keenan on his shoulder
00:26:20And possession secured but that's what jala bear does he makes you think defensively
00:26:26Definitely his first option is to run the way that he uses the different variations of kick
00:26:33We've already seen him thread one through along the ground he's he's used a chip kick there
00:26:37He's got all the tricks that any world-class 10 needs
00:26:41Reyesi catches delivers and jala bear
00:26:46Almost got away robbie henshaw did the job that was required blb at eight
00:26:51You think you have him and he slips away
00:26:54Did well to buy himself a bit of time there he's isolated but used his footwork to actually allow his
00:27:00support
00:27:00In the form of more fire and walking to get with it
00:27:04Coleman sets up the breakdown and lucu delivers the ball to the air and
00:27:11Compete and it's won by the border winger and now the step from yellow bear not once
00:27:16And so not twice but thrice and off it goes to gizotti
00:27:2121 year old number eight
00:27:24Big hits coming from leinster blb at a level of the walkie out wide
00:27:29They're starting to turn out bordeaux clarkson
00:27:32Tries to report or i should say starts to make the defensive effort that's required
00:27:38damien penneau
00:27:40Takes it into contact and the steam for the moment's taken out of this bordeaux attack, but only just for
00:27:45a moment gizotti
00:27:47Once more up quickly, but there's a gap because of the disconnect and the reyesi
00:27:53Up to the 22 ominous from bordeaux
00:28:01It's a statement moment maybe
00:28:04And leinster
00:28:06Tried it
00:28:08Force it free, but the ball was regathered and regathered before it went to ground so no not forward
00:28:13But leinster have turned it over in the breakdown and then knocked it forward
00:28:17He stole the ball
00:28:18Then he's knocked it off
00:28:20Well it was a brilliant turnover from leinster i think it was van de flier was it
00:28:25And then harry byrne tried to nick it and dropped it
00:28:33This was the competition for the ball that the bordeaux fans didn't like blb la and tommy o'brien
00:28:42Not sure there's a huge amount in that tom may stay on the mark don't keep stepping left
00:28:46Tommy o'brien's got his eyes firmly on the ball hasn't he
00:28:52Van der flier to be fair
00:28:54It wasn't exactly
00:28:56It perfectly helped how harry byrne would have wanted that way back to him
00:29:00How many times have we had that said he would have expected more of himself
00:29:07Just a word on chalabere because we haven't got to it yet but
00:29:11In all the statistics with all the teams
00:29:13This fella most offloads most breaks most carries most meters made of all the players in the entire competition
00:29:21To leave one statistical area is spectacular to lead all of them wow
00:29:28I think it also tells you a bit about how bordeaux have played this season as well right
00:29:32He's he's managed to sit in a position where he's always or the majority of the times on the front
00:29:37foot
00:29:39And it definitely tells you a little bit about some of the opposition as well
00:29:43But what it most certainly says is he is
00:29:48The king of this castle
00:29:49That is the bordeaux champions cup team
00:29:55Palu drives bordeaux forward and lencer doing an awful lot of defending
00:30:01In this period of the match
00:30:04Advantage being played another penalty against and it's getting very very tricky for those in white
00:30:09With Bertie just held up
00:30:13But on they go look who can see it again
00:30:19Bogato just held up short
00:30:26Ball in hand brilliance from borno continues to be
00:30:30PLPLA surely once, twice, three times
00:30:38He mesmerized them with his feasts
00:30:40And bordeaux
00:30:42The defending champions have had a statement 15 minutes
00:30:49Well that ball had to come to this near touchline acres of space
00:30:55Bit of a wobbler
00:30:56Wasn't pretty but it got there and it just
00:31:00Meant that BLPRA had to pull something out of nothing
00:31:05Look at the footwork here
00:31:07They know where the ball needs to go to but that is not ideal but those are two killer steps
00:31:13And it's the pickup of the second one
00:31:16The acceleration of this second step that one there
00:31:22Is almost three two off the left one off the right and then the drive forward
00:31:34Look who
00:31:38And what started promisingly for Leinster
00:31:42Well now there is a chasm on that scoreboard
00:31:4521 points to seven in favor of the defending champs
00:31:51Let's just savor this
00:31:53Half a step that one was big
00:31:57It's just the it's just the ability to change direction like jason robinson used to back in the day did
00:32:03without losing pace
00:32:08Well we're 26 minutes into this game and we are at that point where you feel you need to score
00:32:14next
00:32:17Hugo keenan gathers harry byrne that's a pass
00:32:27Ring rose sets it up
00:32:32Oh
00:32:32Porter straight and true
00:32:35Great carry from
00:32:37It's just prop
00:32:39McCarthy
00:32:41Has the mop all over him but he's off his feet now and the
00:32:45Possession is secured burn again looking for that killer pass thunder flare into damien pinot
00:32:52Ioannis on it on gaff gibson park
00:32:55As leinster started go through the gears in an attacking sense it's been a while since they've had the opportunity
00:33:03Clarkson set them on their way
00:33:06Big hit on
00:33:08Gary ring rose back my father
00:33:10On the arm
00:33:10They're on the arm
00:33:15McCarthy
00:33:16Harry burn on his shoulder up to the 22
00:33:20Gibson park interfered with advantage to leinster so they'll go cross field and try and improvise and vanderflare
00:33:27Almost got a hand on it
00:33:29That's better from leinster
00:33:32The shapes are there was a really good tip pass
00:33:36It came from james ryan
00:33:39On to joe mccarthy in the midfield it was a really good ball. It's just allowed mccarthy to get way
00:33:45over the game line
00:33:48There was a little discussion there between kicker and captain about what the best option was
00:33:53The decision is to go for the corner because the three points were a gimme
00:33:58But such is the position of this game already you feel three just isn't good enough when you get into
00:34:04this 22
00:34:06also
00:34:08These two teams have got such belief in their own capabilities when they're in those areas
00:34:13They don't go right this is an opportunity we get our process right this ends up with five points
00:34:17And they've got the process all wrong
00:34:20It's not a penalty
00:34:22Scrum not gone
00:34:25No one even got off the ground there whatever the plan was
00:34:30It was written in different places
00:34:32We're gonna get reward we're gonna go straight we can't both go in
00:34:38No one was off the ground
00:34:52Big game player no doubt about a camera walking all six foot five of them
00:34:5730 plus caps for france
00:35:0027 years of age now
00:35:04Bind
00:35:06Strange you know just trying to get through what he was thinking it's just a rush of blood there
00:35:10All right, if you can get one hand to it and get two
00:35:12Gibson Park
00:35:13Use it!
00:35:14And Doris
00:35:15And Doris picks and goes
00:35:18Just about gets to the game line
00:35:21Gibson Park again
00:35:22Big carry
00:35:24Once more from Leinster they're but four meters short now
00:35:30Tackles continue to come from Bordeaux they did this so well for so long the last time but Leinster found
00:35:36a way
00:35:36Can they find it again?
00:35:38It's close in
00:35:40Route one stuff to start with and then they go wide but they get smashed back and now have lost
00:35:46a couple of meters
00:35:47On they go into the sunshine over on that far side
00:35:52Gibson Park's gonna keep probing the narrow side
00:35:57Gibson Park thinking about going wide now
00:36:01Back to the open side
00:36:03Big hit
00:36:05Quiro the one to make it
00:36:08Possession though is there for Leinster
00:36:12We hit the half hour mark Leinster in desperate need of a score
00:36:16They've had to soak up so much have they got the energy have they got the creativity have they got
00:36:21the belief
00:36:22To find another try right now
00:36:28Knocked forwards
00:36:30The pressure just too much from that Bordeaux defense
00:36:36A really patient defensive set from Bordeaux
00:36:41Making big tackles
00:36:43Putting in big collisions getting back to their feet making sure they got numbers on their feet
00:36:50You know whether Hugo Keenan just got in the eyeliner Conan there just put him off
00:36:57Yannick Brew the Bordeaux coach
00:37:01Got a steep history deep history in this competition of course 18 caps for flats to lose prior to Bordeaux
00:37:16They're loving us and so they should be
00:37:25Young fellas in the stand will remember this for years weren't they if their team does a job here
00:37:31Remember that trip we went on
00:37:34Watched our superheroes bring back the silver whip
00:37:37Let's go what a place to do it by the way
00:37:42Bilbao's got me yeah
00:37:45Last time of course Leinster won the invested champions cup back in 2018 in this very stadium
00:37:52And they beat wrestling eight of the 23 that started that day are involved again today
00:37:58I'll tell you what when we had that shot eight years ago. It wasn't like that
00:38:01Five
00:38:04Six
00:38:09He's a rock solid from both scrubs Bordeaux
00:38:13Janna bear and to touch
00:38:17That's a proper exercise
00:38:21Probably not quite the
00:38:23Connection that he would have wanted given the standards he sets himself
00:38:27Leo Cullen
00:38:2948 years of age now
00:38:3132 caps through his country they've both
00:38:35Be it for Leinster or Leicester to lose or Bordeaux
00:38:39Been around this competition for a long time
00:38:43Wanted so badly this day
00:38:46Down from brian to gibson park and harry byrne up quickly and decisively moe fana
00:38:56And that collision created the opportunity for the turnover
00:39:00and Bordeaux
00:39:02As impactful in defense as they are in attack
00:39:07And keenan
00:39:09Is the hair with the greyhounds in chase he's done well there because he was under really
00:39:15Big pressure from two on rushing kick chasers dangerous dangerous from
00:39:21Henshaw as it went out wide to I think Jim Cullen that could have been picked off
00:39:27Being quite isolated at the back Leinster their ambition to play and move the ball into space
00:39:32He's almost catching them out they're managing to get away with it but they've got to be careful
00:39:36Bit of a lottery
00:39:47Leinster come up with the ball and harry byrne could see a lot of space out here
00:39:52It's a big kick but it's not going to be
00:39:5550-22 blbl a and
00:39:57Reacy had covered the ground well
00:40:01BLDRA with the kick and will restart on the 10 meter line but what about this
00:40:07For a tackle from moe fana will they keep that comes in the week's build-up
00:40:12You do your preview you look at the opposition shapes
00:40:18You read it and you say I know what this is happening
00:40:21You pick the runner you hit them low you get back to your feet
00:40:24But you don't just sit there you get on to your next job and that's what I love most about
00:40:27that
00:40:27He makes a big tackle and then he's moving the ball away
00:40:31Yeah, it was a
00:40:33Momentum changer when Leinster were
00:40:35Starting to build
00:40:39Concern again for Pierre Bokutin who's already been offered a
00:40:43Little replacement and he's spilled a bit more clarice
00:40:47That time is in Tyrone or not
00:40:49It's a doctor's choice
00:40:50Who says that?
00:40:52I'm not medic, I don't have medic experience
00:40:54Are you okay?
00:40:56Are you okay?
00:40:59Through the pool stages against the Bulls the Scarlets the Saints and Bristol
00:41:05And no one could lay a glove on them then beat Leinster emphatically in the last 16 to lose in
00:41:11a terrific game
00:41:13In the quarter-final
00:41:15How's about that for a recovery from a blood injury?
00:41:20Pasta's got a hand
00:41:22A rare scramble back in
00:41:25Requirements are reorganized and then
00:41:27And then
00:41:30Gelabert comes up with something like that
00:41:35Frankly unless you're wearing blue this is a joy or white I should say a joy
00:41:41I just love the way
00:41:43That chalabert almost just stepped back
00:41:45He knew exactly where the backfield was for Leinster just said give me the ball
00:41:51Didn't move didn't run onto it didn't need to have pace on it
00:41:55Knew exactly where he was going to put it and executed the most beautiful kick
00:42:19There is a place
00:42:22There is a place
00:42:29And Bordeaux will have the ball
00:42:32Just up towards the halfway line as holly davidson marks it inside the Leinster half
00:42:39Got a past comment on the kicking standards that have been set by gibson park and luca in this game
00:42:46Every box kick has been either long and cleared the lines well or it's been there to compete for
00:42:53Generally they try to kick to sort of 20 25 meters and that means that the
00:42:57Support can get right underneath it every kick has been on point
00:43:03Inside the final five minutes of the first half
00:43:08And Leinster could really do with finding a way of getting more points on the scoreboard that was an enormous
00:43:14carry in midfield
00:43:15Unable to stop him. I think it was gizotti
00:43:1930 bounces off one joani eventually gets to him
00:43:26Pinned back across the
00:43:29Three-quarter line there for luca once more jala bear this time. He's blocked
00:43:35Everybody's on site. Who's gonna get to it?
00:43:38They know
00:43:45What can you say?
00:43:54It's the man with a golden touch right now, isn't it?
00:43:59Scores tries for fun, but this is all about the offload
00:44:04From his teammate damien penneau
00:44:07We're asking about a push wing or in the center. He's an incredible threat
00:44:13And he's just reacted quickest
00:44:16Balls all over the place
00:44:19Bounces pretty nicely for him
00:44:22One-handed offload. Oh, I have to say that step is again ridiculous
00:44:28Came into this game with eight tries in the competition
00:44:33His pal penneau has ensured he's got a second of this game
00:44:40And lucu adds the additional two
00:44:44And it is 28 points to seven leinster came out of the blocks
00:44:49But once that seven points was in the bag they have not been able to get near them since look
00:44:54how quickly bielberi makes the step one two again goes
00:45:00Keenan, I mean
00:45:01I think keenan's a british lion doesn't even get a finger on him
00:45:13Dangerous times this really dangerous times for leinster
00:45:17What we saw last night's almost the same pattern ulcer came out of the blocks got the first try and
00:45:23montpellier soaked it up and said okay
00:45:24We're ready to go now
00:45:27And ultimately demoralized demolished ulcer
00:45:32Right now touched bordeaux touched
00:45:35I've got the keys to the secret we'll know to beat leinster
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