{"id":678897,"date":"2026-05-18T15:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678897\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:59:09","slug":"champions-cup-final-leinster-wing-tommy-obrien-an-injury-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678897\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions Cup final: Leinster wing Tommy O&#8217;Brien an injury doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leinster wing Tommy O&#8217;Brien is an injury concern for Saturday&#8217;s Investec Champions Cup final against Bordeaux-Begles at San Mames Stadium in Bilbao (14:45 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old will be further assessed after withdrawing from the matchday squad for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c5y9e17n2p0o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">68-14 United Rugby Championship win<\/a> over Ospreys at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ireland international sustained a knock in training and a decision on his fitness will be made later in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brian Deeny, Joshua Kenny and Paddy McCarthy will also be monitored, with decisions on their availability also to be made later in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Centre Hugh Cooney sustained a injury against Ospreys and will be unavailable for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leinster are aiming to secure a fifth European title, eight years after their last success, as they take on the defending champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Irish province have lost four finals since lifting the trophy in 2018, going down to Saracens in 2019, La Rochelle in 2022 and 2023, and Toulouse in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster wing Tommy O&#8217;Brien is an injury concern for Saturday&#8217;s Investec Champions Cup final against Bordeaux-Begles at San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-678897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}