Gerry Thornley: None of Leinster’s outside backs made a pass - a remarkable and telling stat via IrishTimesSport
As Ronan O’Gara said afterwards, one has a degree of sympathy for Ala’alatoa as he and Leinster sought to translate one last wave of attacks into a match-winning score and so also atone for losing last year’s final to the same opposition in the last play. What’s more, Jaco Peyper had long since let the breakdown become a war zone.
Charlie Ngatai, off the bench, did make two passes but it is a remarkable statistic which tells us much. When inside the La Rochelle 22 for the endgame, once again Leinster understandably attacked relatively narrowly, or at any rate on the blind side or through hard carries off nine, save for that gallop out wide by Ngatai from Byrne’s pass.
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