Rory O'Connor

Leinster have reached the 2026 Investec Champions Cup final after a 29-25 victory over Toulon.

I'm Rory O'Connor.

I'm joined by Keane Tracy at the Aviva Stadium.

Keane, there was 38,555 people here to watch Leinster progress.

I think only 400 of them had come from Toulon.

But about 10 minutes to go, they were all feeling very comfortable, starting to look at flights on their phones, looking at the Ryanair app to see what was going on, whether any flights were being added.

and they suddenly were drawn into a game that nobody wanted to be in, and Leinster just about got over the line in the end.

How do you sum up one of the strangest games I've covered in quite some time?

Yeah, well, our rugby coverage here on Indosport on the left wing is sponsored by Energia, who proudly support the women's game in Ireland.

And there are still two big home fixtures to come in this year's Six Nations.

First up, Ireland take on Wales in Belfast next weekend, when an Aviva Stadium clash against Scotland to follow on the 17th of May.

And that's a week before Leinster go to Bilbao.

So three weeks to iron out the creases, I guess, of this performance.

Let's dig into it.

We...

kicked off with Leinster a strong favourite, I think it was 11 points in the bookies.

They probably justified that tag for most of that first half, which was pretty comfortable with a few errors thrown into it, until that period where they went down to 13 men bizarrely and scored a try.

But that first half an hour, 30 minutes, when Leinster were in control, what did they do right in that period?

How did they get on top of Toulon?

I just think it's very in keeping with their season.