Leinster vs Toulon Champions Cup 2026

Irish flair vs French flair.

One of the most pedantic refs…hope he doesn’t do the WC final

Hollie will, of course, do the final. Never in doubt, Moz.

Early penalty miss from Byrne.

Tommy with a big old hit.

Good line speed from Leinster keeping Toulon under control, they get the turnover and the lineout 5 off the JGP kick.

Leinster over from an irresistible surge, very smooth.

Henshaw knocked clean out in an attempted tackle.

Sorry Pakie, I’ll be in and out on this one, but I get your point on Hollie! Actually I’d prefer her to this guy…but he is the Erasmus victim, so I’m thinking World Rugby will have the final word by giving him the final.

No worries Moz, do your thing. That philistine Plum is shining in his absence again.

Jammie slots the penalty, 7-3

Leinster playing superb rugby, all over Toulon at the moment. Rieko one half tackle from scoring.

JGP snipes from close after a break from Porter. Leinster looks a bit unstoppable once they hit the 22. They're checking a few things though.

Rieko's in touch looks okay, so now for a potential knock. Looks backwards so try should stand. Nah probably a tiny knock, no try. Could have gone either way.

Leinster effortlessly creating space, back to 5m out.

Leinster keeps trapping Toulon behind the gain line.

Jammie with a penalty, 7-6. Score not really reflecting the game, it's been all Leinster.

Nice tap and go move from Leinster and Van der Flier is in. They're checking but it looked solid to me. Yep, no doubt.

14-6, Leinster will be happier with that for their dominance.

Leinster conceding three penalties in one sequence of play. Now they're checking for a high hit by Porter, head contact so it will be a card. Not much mitigation there. Yellow, mitigation is he was falling backwards. Ehh, if you say so ref.

Absolute lie….that was a clear red card

Toulon lineout 5, can they make Leinster's good work for the half undone here.

Wouldn’t like to tackle that lad 5 metres out.

Mini Lomu in the corner and there might be another card coming for Leinster. Indeed, they'll be down to 13.

He's a chunky dude. Poor JGP always seems to find himself having to make tackles like that.

Eh, not much in that hit. Think Rieko is trying to milk it.

Might have been a penalty cause it was high, but no more.

Absolutely Berry got that right

Leinster doing well to shut Toulon down in midfield and force the knock.

Leinster getting all the scrum penalties so far.

14-11, 35 minutes of dominance by Leinster, not much to show for it plus about 5 minutes with 13 to kick off the second.

Howzit Boys!

Apologies for my tardiness!

Leinster knocking on the door with 14 men

Cumon you Oirish!!!

13 man Leinster over the line and just held up. They have a penalty though. Shoulder to head on Josh, yellow for Toulon. Again the non-existent "falling backwards" as mitigation. What does that even mean.

Haha Leinster score

Howzit Plummie. Ringrose over! Great start, these dudes are plucky going all in 2 men down right from the word go. Love it.

More enterprise from Leinster two men down than we saw from the Stormers two men up, eh? That 50/50 rugby worked, it seems.

4th scrum penalty to Leinster.

Ireland are gonna miss JGP when he goes

22-11. That's better, apart from 5 minutes at the end of the first half Toulon hasn't been in this. They've been hardly any threat apart from that one try.

Toulon still doing most of their play behind the gain line and they're going backwards with just about every phase.