Gavan Casey
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's going to be set-piece oriented, as it typically is with Arsenal at the moment.
Look, if you're a neutral...
Depending on how you feel about PSG being, broadly speaking, an instrument of the Qatari state, you probably want the better footballing team to win here.
And PSG are really extraordinary, exhilarating to watch.
But yeah, I do think Arsenal provide the only potential kryptonite to this PSG outfit under Luis Enrique.
And that's what makes it an intriguing game.
For a football purist, I think there's a lot to consume here in that it's two teams having to navigate each other in very different ways.
Yeah, very intriguing that CiarΓ‘n Frawley, who many would argue, including myself, is the form out half.
Atlancer at the moment is not in their matchday 23.
Frawley is obviously due to join Connacht at the end of the season.
And to an extent, maybe you could understand Leo Cullen's reasoning in that.
Look, things didn't go especially well for Harry Byrne in the Champions Cup final last weekend.
It was the biggest game of his career.
He probably hasn't been exposed yet to a great deal of knockout rugby, so...
He's on the bench this time around, and Cullen has given the reins back to Sam Prendergast, who equally needs that kind of big game experience.
And this is a winnable quarterfinal at home to the Lions, who are a decent outfit, but obviously Leinster feel comfortable and confident that they can win the game without Frawley.
But I'd imagine, you know, for a lot of Leinster fans, it's a curious decision.
It's one where, if the game was to go wrong, I mean, it really does invite a lot more pressure on Leo Cullen, who over the last 24 hours has insisted he is the right man to take the province forward, and he
He mentioned yesterday that for him to step away would not be the way forward for Leinster.
Look, people will question that if this Lions game doesn't go right.