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Rampant Leinster book home semi-final
By Ben Spratt
Defending champions Leinster secured a home semi-final in the Pro14 with a comfortable 19-7 defeat of the Cheetahs.
The Irish side moved a massive 26 points clear at the top of Conference B in Friday's only match at the RDS Arena, ensuring they will have home advantage in the play-offs.
Ox Nche was shown a yellow card in the 10th minute and Leinster immediately capitalised, with Conor O'Brien bursting through to break the deadlock.
But five minutes later, the visitors were level. Rabz Maxwane hared after a kick downfield and finished, with Tian Schoeman cancelling out Ross Byrne's successful conversion.
The flurry of scores kept coming, though, and Adam Byrne marked his 50th Leinster appearance by touching down in the right corner to give the hosts a half-time lead.
And Cheetahs did not trouble the scoreline again, as Rory O'Loughlin stretched the hosts' advantage and then Ross Byrne's second accurate kick set up a cruise to the finish line.
Full-time! And that win secures a home semi-final in the #GuinnessPRO14 #LEIvCHE #JoinTheRoar pic.twitter.com/AhR4k7tKCx
— Leinster Rugby (@leinsterrugby) March 1, 2019
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I think we need to get innovative with the new laws.
Now red cards are only 20 minutes, Razor should send Finau on a head hunting mission to hospitalise their 10 with a shoulder to the chops.
Give the conspiracy theorists a win.
Go to commentsEngland played well enough to win but couldnt score when they needed to and couldnt defend a couple of X-Factor moments from Telea which was ultimately the difference. They needed to hold the ball more and make the AB's make more tackles. Territorially they were good for the first 60. Defending their lead and playing pragmatic rugby in the last 20 was silly. The AB's always had the potential to come back. England still have a long way to go, definite progress would have been shown had they won but it seems they are still stuck where they were shortly after the six nations and their tour to NZ
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