James Lowe helped himself to 4 tries and Robbie Henshaw bagged a double, seeing Leinster thru to the Champions Cup quarter-finals the place they anticipate the winners of the Leicester-Clermont Auvergne tie
Ultimate Up to date: 15/04/22 9:26pm
James Lowe ran in 4 tries as Leinster hammered Connacht to achieve the Problem Cup quarter-finals
Leinster blew Connacht away with a 56-20 win on the Aviva Stadium – profitable 82-41 on combination – to arrange a most likely Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final shuttle to Leicester Tigers.
James Lowe helped himself to 4 tries and Robbie Henshaw bagged two, leaving Leo Cullen’s males to anticipate the winners of the Leicester-Clermont Auvergne tie.
Jamison Gibson-Park, who had his mentioning for a prime take on from the primary leg brushed aside, began the try-scoring as Leinster ruthlessly spread out a 28-3 half-time lead.
Connacht captain Jack Carty’s early penalty was once cancelled out by means of transformed ratings from Gibson-Park, Henshaw, Tadhg Furlong and Lowe, the latter one coming after Bundee Aki’s sin-binning.
The blue hordes in a 32,604-strong crowd had a Excellent Friday to bear in mind, with Henshaw and Lowe, the Heineken star-of-the-match, crisply including to their tallies.
Regardless of a Jack Aungier yellow card, a gallant Connacht salvaged some pleasure with second-half tries from Tiernan O’Halloran, Sam Arnold and Abraham Papali’i.
The guests right away ate into their five-point deficit from closing week’s sport. Cian Prendergast was once fastest to the breakdown and Carty knocked over the penalty.
The Connacht fly-half frustratingly pulled a penalty broad quickly after, and Leinster duly thundered transparent within the tenth minute.
Henshaw and Josh Murphy led a slick surge down the suitable wing, linking inside of with Lowe who fed Gibson-Park to head over untouched. Captain Jonathan Sexton transformed from the suitable.
Henshaw shrugged off his Eire team-mate Aki to crash over within the seventeenth minute, and tighthead Furlong drove over 10 mins later to make it 3 transformed tries.
Aki’s next yellow card for a prime take on on Sexton was once additionally punished in scientific style. Sexton’s beautiful inside of go despatched Lowe powering over for a past due seven-pointer sooner than the period.
The floodgates have been smartly and in reality open, with Jimmy O’Brien prowling and Henshaw crossing simply 59 seconds after the restart. Sexton’s proper boot made it 35-3.
O’Halloran spoke back for Connacht, launched by means of Carty’s not on time go, however Aungier’s yellow for a shoulder price on Josh Van Der Flier brought on uncontested scrums.
The westerners, with a groggy Finlay Bealham already changed, needed to toil away with 13 males for the following couple of mins.
Sexton’s brief go unleashed Garry Ringrose from midway and he spun the ball broad for Lowe to overcome two defenders and double his contribution.
Sexton departed with a dozen issues following his 6th a success conversion, however Connacht substitute Arnold quickly barged over to go away it 42-13.
Lowe’s hat-trick rating adopted, with substitute Ross Byrne’s preliminary dummy environment it up, and the similar two avid gamers blended once more proper on the dying.
Byrne’s chip kick put Lowe over to the left of the posts after substitute Papali’i had muscled over on the different finish.
