La Rochelle and Leinster face each other in the Champions Cup pool match. The loser is not doomed to go out of the tournament. Both teams have had previous narrow defeats against each other. The match is being embraced by Cullen as a way to test their abilities.
Champions Cup : La Rochelle v Leinster , Sunday December 10th, venue, 3.15pm, live on TNT Sports said of this reprise of the last two finals that “this is a big game, but it’s not a massive game.” As a pool match , the loser is not doomed to go out of the tournament and to that extent, have breezed through to the final as the most proficient side in the competition by almost every metric, and fat lot of good it did them in two titanic and narrow defeats against O’Gara’s side.
The “unusual dynamic” of being pitted against each other on a sodden Sunday on the Atlantic coast is being embraced by Cullen. “But that’s what you want,” he said, clearly energised by the prospect. “You want to test yourselves and see where you really are. Sometimes it gives you a false sense if you can dominate the teams in your pool, rather than that kind of battle-hardened sense of realit
Champions Cup La Rochelle Leinster Pool Match Tournament Narrow Defeats Test Abilities
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