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Match report follows later. Leinster: I Nacewa; S Horgan, B O'Driscoll, G D'Arcy, L Fitzgerald; J Sexton, E Reddan; C Healy, R Strauss, M Ross, L Cullen (captain), N Hines, K McLaughlin, S O'Brien, J Heaslip. Replacements: J Harris-Wright, H Van Der Merwe, S Wright, D Toner, S Jennings, I Boss, I Madigan, F McFadden

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23 min: D’Arcy having a fine game so far, plenty of mongrel and plenty of half-breaks, but Toulouse’s defence is pretty solid out wide. Toulouse with a chance to swing it right but Picamoles over-complicates things and the move breaks down.

18 min: Fine pick-up from Sexton and he very nearly wriggles through. O’Brien wrestles his way through the Toulouse defence before Vincent Clerc brings the ball clear. Lovely hands all the way to Medard but Leinster smother their work, eventually…

15 min: PENALTY Leinster 6-10 Toulouse Toulouse pinged for I’m not sure what and Sexton makes no mistake again. Think that was hands on the ground, right old ding-dong…

12 min: DROP-GOAL Leinster 3-10 Toulouse … slow ball for Toulouse and Skrela pops over a drop-goal, simple as that…

10 min: PENALTY Leinster 3-7 Toulouse Lots of bemused faces behind the Leinster posts, but there was not much O’Driscoll could do about that, it’s these weird shaped balls. Leinster’s line-out creaking but here comes D’Arcy on the barrel, and now O’Driscoll scything through… penalty Leinster, bang in front of the posts, and Sexton makes no mistake.

5 min: TRY Leinster 0-7 Toulouse It’s a penalty to Toulouse, O’Driscoll penalised for going over the top. Skrela hits the left upright, the ball takes a wicked bounce over O’Driscoll’s head and Fritz, like any good pro, follows up the bouncing ball and touches down. Could have been three, ends up being seven…

1 min: Leinster kick-off through Jonny Sexton… he switches right-to-left and Horgan is underneath it – Leinster eventually win the throw-in. Toulouse steal through Nyanga and Skrela clears…

1528: Few tops off in the stands, although all that blue skin doesn’t go too well with what appears to be a slate grey sky. If Toulouse have a weakness, it could be at scrum-half, where the 20-year-old Jean-Marc Doussain, normally a fly-half, is called into action because of injuries. Here they come now…

1518: It’s the 2009 champions against the 2010 champions and the head-to-head reads: Leinster 3-5 Toulouse. Leinster are out for revenge after losing to Toulouse in last year’s semis. It could go berserk up front today: six Ireland internationals in the Leinster pack, William Servat, Jean Bouilhou and Patricio Albacete and Co up against them.

1515: Righto, fresh from writing the match report for a thrilling European Challenge Cup semi-final between Harlequins and Munster, here is me for what promises to be a humdinger of a clash between Leinster and French fancies Toulouse. Toulouse are appearing in their 10th Heineken Cup semi-final, the Irish side in their sixth.

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