The Irish who remained focused, Montpellier taken by the throat from the start of the meeting… Find our Tops and Flops of the match between Leinster and Montpellier (89-7).
TOPS
Irish seriousness
They could have taken the meeting lightly given the turn of events in their favor. But no, Leo Cullen’s men stayed focused for 80 minutes. Faced with a Montpellier team decimated by the Covid, the Irish wanted to take care of their return to competition, more than a month after their last match. Leinster recited its score against weak Héraultais. Perfect touchdowns, decisive balls carried after the scrum, passes on contact and fruitful duplication, everything went there. To see if these principles will be able to resist a more vigorous opposition but the game deployed was attractive in addition to being effective.
The perfect Irish fly-halves
Ross Byrne was almost perfect this afternoon. The Irishman built a solo try after countering Tauleigne under his posts. He added a very nice 7/8 to the conversion to boost his stats. His replacement, a certain Jonathan Sexton, was also perfect. The legend made his return, three months after his ankle injury against the Blacks in November. Perfect, he kept his routine before his kicks, even with a 60-point lead. What to be received 5 out of 5 by the posts. Note also that despite the 95 points scored, none was scored by a penalty. All have been trials or transformations.
FLOPS
The catastrophic start to the MHR match
28-0. In 23 minutes, Leinster had equalized the score of the first leg, which the Irish had lost by default. The Montpellier residents, deprived of almost all their executives, have never had a respondent. But the gap was even more glaring at the start of the game. Probably not prepared for this intensity and the quality of Leinster, the young French shooters were overwhelmed from all sides, conceding 4 tries very quickly. Despite a success of pride and a try to save honor, the start of the match had already sounded the death knell for the meeting. And killed all hope of looking good for the Héraultais.
A sad record reached
Leinster takes pleasure in humiliating French clubs. In 2004, the Irish had passed 92 points to Bourgoin, in a match dominated beyond measure (92-17). If the record for points scored was not broken this afternoon, that of the gap has however fallen. With this victory by 82 lengths, Leinster set a new mark for the biggest victory in their history in European competition. A status which the Montpellier residents would have done well.
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