Heineken Champions Cup pool stage spherical 3: Former winners Leinster and Toulouse secured last-16 locations within the competitors every week early after comfy away victories over Gallagher Premiership pair Gloucester and Sale Sharks
Last Updated: 14/01/23 3:22pm
Leinster booked their passage to the Heineken Champions Cup final 16
Leinster and Toulouse have booked Heineken Champions Cup last-16 locations after wins at Gloucester and Sale…
Gloucester 14-49 Leinster
Leinster cruised into the Heineken Champions Cup spherical of 16 after sweeping apart Gloucester at Kingsholm.
The four-time European champions have been by no means severely threatened as they adopted up a 57-0 victory over the identical opponents earlier than Christmas with one other complete success.
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The Irish heavyweights secured a bonus level by half-time by means of tries from wing Jordan Larmour, prop Michael Ala’alatoa, centre Jamie Osborne and quantity eight Caelan Doris.
Fly-half Ross Byrne transformed all 4 scores and, though Gloucester claimed two penalty tries from collapsed mauls, it was injury limitation from an early stage.
Leinster full-back Hugo Keenan crossed early within the second interval for a strive that Byrne once more transformed, then flanker Josh van der Flier touched down, with substitute Harry Byrne including the extras.
And Ronan Kelleher added a seventh Leinster strive on the stroke of full-time, transformed by Harry Byrne, leaving Gloucester to mirror on their heaviest dwelling defeat in top-flight European competitors.
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With eight groups qualifying from every of two swimming pools, although, Gloucester may nonetheless attain the Champions Cup knockout section in the event that they beat Bordeaux-Begles in France subsequent weekend.
Sale Sharks 5-27 Toulouse
Sale will face a must-win Heineken Champions Cup conflict at Ulster subsequent weekend after a 27-5 dwelling defeat to Toulouse of their Pool B third-round conflict.
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Sharks slipped to their second defeat in three matches in Europe’s elite competitors, on a day once they have been definitely hampered by Cobus Wiese’s pink card within the first half when 5-0 up.
Toulouse’s third straight victory leaves them nearly sure of a house last-16 tie.
Sale have been trying good because the quarter-stage of the sport approached, however they then misplaced Wiese to a pink card
after a lot deliberation from referee Mike Adamson.
The South African star was penalised for a harmful clear-out at a ruck, and from there Toulouse grew into dominating the competition, finally securing a snug win.
