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\n Murray Kinsella<\/p>\n
Reports from the Aviva Stadium<\/p>\n
LEINSTER HAVE GIVEN an optimistic update on the injuries they sustained during their 29-25 Champions Cup semi-final win over Toulon.<\/p>\n
Inside centre Robbie Henshaw was carted off early in the game after suffering a nasty-looking head injury, while back row Jack Conan limped off in pain in the second half.<\/p>\n
Openside flanker Josh van der Flier also departed after a head injury, while right wing Tommy O\u2019Brien was replaced in the second half too.<\/p>\n
But head coach Leo Cullen provided an encouraging update on the injured quartet post-match at the Aviva Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cRobbie and Josh got two head knocks,\u201d said Cullen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll go through the graduated return-to-play (protocols) as standard. The two of them are OK there now. Listen, we\u2019ll get them checked out and make sure everything is OK.<\/p>\n
\u201cJack obviously hobbled off with his knee. He\u2019s pretty bullish in there, saying he\u2019s fine. Again, we\u2019ll get him checked.<\/p>\n
\u201cTommy went off as well. I think he\u2019s cramping is what\u2019s going on there. That\u2019s the majority of it, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cullen said scrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park was also feeling the effects of close attention from Toulon.<\/p>\n
\u201cJamo (Gibson-Park) shipped a couple of knocks. You could see they were targeting him right from the very start of the game but Jamison is made of tough stuff. He managed himself through the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cGenerally, I think the lads are not bad. A game of this magnitude, everyone has thrown themselves into the contact area. Nobody is leaving anything out there. It\u2019s all out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leinster did an impressive job of building a 29-11 lead over Toulon with 13 minutes remaining in the game, but the French side then launched an exciting comeback effort.<\/p>\n
The visitors scored two tries and threatened to break Leinster\u2019s hearts in the closing minutes, but the home team hung on to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great, it\u2019s what you want from a game at this stage of the competition,\u201d said Cullen.<\/p>\n
\u201cCredit to the lads for getting the job done. They\u2019re making it a bit more stressful than we would like, as coaches and supporters, but it sort of adds to the intrigue as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murray Kinsella Reports from the Aviva Stadium LEINSTER HAVE GIVEN an optimistic update on the injuries they sustained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32728,61,60,10562,28577,36270,112,68989,170695],"class_list":["post-429409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-champions-cup","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster","tag-leo-cullen","tag-reaction","tag-sports","tag-toll","tag-toulon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429409","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=429409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}