{"id":417553,"date":"2026-04-25T22:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417553\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T22:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:32:09","slug":"leinster-are-stunned-by-benetton-as-they-lose-at-stadio-monigo-for-first-time-since-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417553\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster are stunned by Benetton as they lose at Stadio Monigo for first time since 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Benetton 29 Leinster 26\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tommy O'Brien of Leinster is tackled by Lorenzo Cannone of Benetton at Stadio Monigo in Treviso, Italy. Photo by Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a09caf7a-4747-47c9-96e0-a46d90cef468.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tommy O&#8217;Brien of Leinster is tackled by Lorenzo Cannone of Benetton at Stadio Monigo in Treviso, Italy. Photo by Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Leinster\u2019s Champions Cup semi-final preparations suffered a massive blow in northern Italy when a Benetton with nothing but pride to play for deservedly put them to the sword.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The loss, Leinster\u2019s first at Stadio Monigo since 2010, also put a dent in Leinster\u2019s home advantage hopes in the URC knockout stages, but they could have few complaints despite starting with 13 internationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benetton 29 Leinster 26 Tommy O&#8217;Brien of Leinster is tackled by Lorenzo Cannone of Benetton at Stadio Monigo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,11287,112],"class_list":["post-417553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}