Summary

  • Click audio icons at top of page to listen to BBC radio commentaries

  • Teams battling for place in Champions Cup quarter-finals

  • Leinster v Leicester Tigers (20:00 BST) - BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra and BBC Radio Leicester

  • First half: Pollard try for Tigers, Gibson-Park replies with hat-trick

  • Second half: Cronin try for Tigers, Henshaw and Conan for Leinster

  • Bordeaux Begles 45-12 Saracens - French side set up Harlequins tie with statement win

  • Bordeaux Begles tries for Garcia (2), Depoortere (2) and Bielle-Biarrey (2) - Lewington and Willis for Saracens

  • Exeter Chiefs 21-15 Bath - Chiefs fight back to reach last eight

  • Du Toit and Hill on scoresheet for Bath - Vintcent, Fisilau and Roots for Chiefs

  1. That's a wrappublished at 22:04 British Summer Time 6 April

    FT: Leinster 36-22 Leicester Tigers

    That's all from us after another engrossing day of Champions Cup action.

    For all the changes over the years, this competition really does come alive in the knock-out stages.

    A back-and-forth between Exeter and Bath, a statement win from Bordeaux-Begles over Saracens and Leinster getting the better of Tigers once again.

    Not to mention the most dramatic game of the day as La Rochelle clawed their way back against the Stormers only to almost lose at the death.

    Phew. Things get back underway tomorrow with Northampton hosting Munster at 12.30 BST.

    Bye for now!

  2. Leinster and La Rochelle to go againpublished at 21:54 British Summer Time 6 April

    FT: Leinster 36-22 Leicester Tigers

    In a repeat of the final from the past two seasons, and a fifth meeting in four the last four campaigns, it'll be Leinster against La Rochelle in Dublin next weekend.

    Somewhere in Cape Town, Ronan O'Gara no doubt smiling to himself.

    Tigers will have given Leinster plenty to ponder before that quarter-final though, certainly at the set-piece and in some aspects of their discipline.

    Indeed, Leicester will wonder what might have been if they were as clinical as their opponents. Losing the sin-bin period 7 points to 5 was glaring but there were a few other scores that the visitors left behind them.

    All in all, an entertaining game that sets up an even bigger one next weekend.

  3. Full-time - Leinster 36-22 Leicester Tigerspublished at 21:47 British Summer Time 6 April

    After neither side seem to want this one to end - both attacked from their own 22 with the clock in the red - eventually Murphy decides enough is enough and boots the ball off the park to bring about the final whistle.

  4. Postpublished at 77 mins

    Leinster 36-22 Leicester Tigers

    Another injury concern for Leinster as Cian Healy hobbles off.

    He'd been part of a brilliant effort by the front-row replacements.

  5. converted try

    Converted try - Leinster 36-22 Leicester Tigerspublished at 76 mins

    Charlie Clare (con Handre Pollard)

    The look exhanged between Ronan Kelleher and Ryan Baird says it all.

    Some sort of breakdown in communication at the Leinster line-out and the ball sails straight to Leicester Tigers replacement hooker Charlie Clare.

    All he has to do is fall over the line for the score.

  6. converted try

    Converted try - Leinster 36-15 Leicester Tigerspublished at 71 mins

    Jack Conan (con Harry Byrne)

    Conan not be denied in the end.

    Having had one chalked off earlier in the piece, this one will count.

    Osborne plays a nice inside pass to Ryan Baird and the rangy flanker makes an athletic burst.

    As has been a theme of the night, Leinster's support lines are spot on and this time Conan is the beneficiary.

    At that, Gibson-Park comes off to a huge ovation. No prizes for guessing Player of the Match.

  7. Postpublished at 67 mins

    Leinster 29-15 Leicester Tigers

    Ross Byrne comes off decidedly second best in his tackle of Julian Montoya.

    The Leinster fly-half departs holding his shoulder, replaced by his younger brother Harry.

    Should Leinster hold on for these final 13 minutes, their number 10 will now be a doubt for the quarter-final with La Rochelle.

  8. Postpublished at 63 mins

    Leinster 29-15 Leicester Tigers

    The Tigers are going to be so frustrated watching this back in their Monday morning review. There's another opening wasted.

    Ollie Hassell-Collins does brilliantly initially but his pass is behind Shillcock.

    They'd have been in had that pass stuck.

    Another penalty for Leinster at the ensuing scrum and they'll clear the danger.

  9. Disallowed trypublished at 58 mins

    Leinster 29-15 Leicester Tigers

    The entirety of Dublin seems to think Jack Conan has scored Leinster's fifth try of the night but the replacement number eight is somewhat sheepish amid the celebrations.

    It takes an intervention from the TMO to correctly chalk off the try.

  10. Postpublished at 55 mins

    Leinster 29-15 Leicester Tigers

    There's a neat summation of the challenge in playing Leinster.

    The Tigers had been on top of the scrum, Leo Cullen brings on three international front-row replacements, and it's the boys in blue getting the penalty this time.

    James Lowe returns and, improbably, his side are further ahead than when he left.

    Leicester won't need told, of course, but these are the types of opportunities you simply can't let slip if you are to beat Leinster in the Aviva Stadium

  11. converted try

    Converted try - Leinster 29-15 Leicester Tigerspublished at 50 mins

    Robbie Henshaw (con Ross Byrne)

    Oh, it's an absolute disaster for the Tigers.

    They try to make the extra man count, and there are two green jerseys on the outside, but Dan Kelly's miss-pass just hangs in the air and Robbie Henshaw reads it from a mile away.

    The centre, who found a rich vein of form in the Six Nations, snatches the ball and that's a hammer blow for the Tigers.

  12. Postpublished at 48 mins

    Leinster 22-15 Leicester Tigers

    And after that big set-piece victory for the Tigers, Leinster make a change up front with Cian Healy replacing Andrew Porter.

  13. try

    Try - Leinster 22 - 15 Leicester Tigerspublished at 45 mins

    James Cronin

    Penalty try or not, ultimately it won't matter.

    The Tigers are over from the subsequent maul and it's James Cronin taking the plaudits.

    As the prop finishes it off, shouldn't be forgotten that all started from a scrum penalty too.

    Pollard's conversion comes back off the post but Leicester are back within a score and virtually the full sin-bin period to come.

  14. Postpublished at 45 mins

    Leinster 22-10 Leicester Tigers

    Leinster will play the next ten minutes a man down.

    The line-out was scrappy but after the Tigers worked the ball wide, James Lowe clearly knocks down Jamie Shillcock's pass.

    The officials take a quick look at a penalty try but it's just the penalty and card.

  15. Postpublished at 43 mins

    Leinster 22-10 Leicester

    Huge scrum from the Tigers.

    The Leicester front-row certainly enjoyed that one.

    Good position for them now...

  16. Second-half underwaypublished at 20:59 British Summer Time 6 April

    Leinster 22-10 Leicester

    We're going again at the Aviva Stadium.

    Again, Leicester won't feel they did too much wrong in the first-half but Leinster were so clinical.

    It'll take a huge effort from the Tigers to pull off the upset now.

  17. Half-time - Leinster 22-10 Leicester Tigerspublished at 20:45 British Summer Time 6 April

    It's been the Jamison Gibson-Park show at the Aviva Stadium.

    It'll take a heck of a second 40 from someone to deny the scrum-half the Player of the Match award here.

    Three tries for Leinster, all three from Gibson-Park.

    He's been absolutely electric all over the park.

    Not a bad half from Leicester but a few moments of ill-discipline and some errors in opposition territory are no formula to beat this calibre of opposition.

  18. Postpublished at 36 mins

    Leinster 22-10 Leicester

    Joe McCarthy - or 'Big Joe McCarthy' to give him what has become his full title - comes up with a big turnover as Leicester threaten another quick response.

    The Tigers come again and this time Andrew Porter is pinged for playing the nine.

    Let's put it this way...that wasn't the most subtle transgression of the loosehead's career.

    Frustrating end to the passage for the visitors as they're then caught offside.

  19. converted try

    Converted try - Leinster 22-10 Leicester Tigerspublished at 30 mins

    Jamison Gibson-Park (con Ross Byrne)

    Well, there goes that theory.

    Leicester were trying to stay within touching distance but now there's a sense that any visit to the 22 will require tries not penalties.

    Gibson-Park completes his hat-trick after only half an hour and it's another well executed Leinster move.

    Osborne is the strike runner this time, making a nice break and again Gibson-Park is off the shoulder to finish things off.

    Byrne adds the conversion and Leinster have some control on the scoreboard.

  20. Penalty - Leinster 15-10 Leicester Tigerspublished at 28 mins

    Handre Pollard

    Sensible from the Tigers.

    They'e straight down the other end and, when they draw the penalty, it's another quick point towards the posts.

    Pollard knocks it over to get them back within a score as the half hour mark approaches.