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Investec Champions Cup final <\/b><\/p>\n

Leinster (7) 19 <\/b><\/p>\n

Tries: <\/b>O’Brien, McCarthy, Ringrose Cons: <\/b>Byrne, Frawley<\/p>\n

Bordeaux-Begles (35) 41<\/b><\/p>\n

Tries: <\/b>Lucu, Uberti, Bielle-Biarrey 2, Moefana Cons: <\/b>Lucu 5 Pens: <\/b>Lucu 2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bordeaux-Begles scored five first-half tries to retain the Champions Cup title with a comfortable victory over Leinster in the final in Bilbao and prolong the Irish team’s agony in European rugby’s showpiece game. <\/p>\n

Despite conceding an early try through Leinster winger Tommy O’Brien, Bordeaux’s power and pace told as captain Maxime Lucu and Paolo Uberti scored to shift momentum.<\/p>\n

With Leinster wilting under relentless Bordeaux pressure, Louis Bielle-Biarrey’s double put the French side in the driving seat before Yoram Moefana intercepted a Harry Byrne pass and ran in under the posts to establish a 28-point half-time gap. <\/p>\n

Leinster hit back early in the second half through Joe McCarthy after Lucu’s yellow card for pulling the lock’s hair.<\/p>\n

Lucu returned to kick two penalties, and while Garry Ringrose notched Leinster’s third, the damage had been done in the first half as Bordeaux completed a French double over Irish sides after Montpellier’s emphatic Challenge Cup final win over Ulster on Friday night.<\/p>\n

It is Bordeaux’s second Champions Cup triumph and France’s sixth consecutive win in the blue riband competition, with La Rochelle and Toulouse also winning twice since 2021.<\/p>\n

For Leinster, however, it is a fifth defeat in the final since they claimed their fourth title in 2018, with the past four heartbreaks coming at the hands of French opposition.<\/p>\n

Leo Cullen’s side lost by a score to La Rochelle in 2022 and 2023 and took Toulouse to extra-time in 2024, but they were comfortably second best to Bordeaux in the Bilbao heat.<\/p>\n

More to follow.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Leinster: <\/b>Keenan; O’Brien, Ringrose, Henshaw, Ioane; Byrne, Gibson-Park; Porter, Sheehan, Clarkson, J McCarthy, Ryan, Conan, Van der Flier, Doris (capt)<\/p>\n

Replacements: <\/i>Kelleher, P McCarthy, Furlong, Mangan, Deegan, McGrath, Frawley, Osborne<\/p>\n

Bordeaux-Begles: <\/b>Rayasi; Uberti, Penaud, Moefana, Bielle-Biarrey; Jalibert, Lucu (capt); Poirot, Lamothe, Sadie, Palu, Coleman, Bochaton, Woki, Gazzotti<\/p>\n

Replacements: Barlot, Boniface, Tameifuna, Swinton, Matiu, Vergnes-Taillefer, Retiere, Reus<\/p>\n

Sin-bin: <\/b>Lucu (42), Boniface (74)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Referee: <\/b>Karl Dickson (Eng)<\/p>\n

Assistant referees:<\/b> Christophe Ridley (Eng) and Hollie Davidson (Sco)<\/p>\n

TMO:<\/b> Marius van der Westhuizen (SA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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