Heineken Cup - Twickenham, 19 May 2012, 17:00 local, 16:00 GMT
Leinster (14) 42 - 14 (6) Ulster (FT)

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Summary

Time Score  
7 0 - 3

Ruan Pienaar bissects the posts to give Ulster the lead in the Heineken Cup final

12 5 - 3

The verdict is in and it's a try for O'Brien and Leinster. Owens crucially asked if there was any reason not to give it and the answer was no. Leinster lead

13 7 - 3

Sexton adds the conversion

31 12 - 3

Ulster lose the scrum against the head on the half way. O'Driscoll makes a lovely inside ball, O'Brien surges on and Healy finishes it from the resulting breakdown

32 14 - 3

Sexton adds the simple conversion

40+1 14 - 6

Pienaar - penalty goal

44 19 - 6

Nigel Owens has awarded a potentially decisive penalty try to Leinster after their driving maul was pulled down metres from the line

45 21 - 6

Sexton - conversion

48 21 - 9

Ruan Pienaar smashes the ball over from long-range again to cut the lead to 12

51 24 - 9

Sexton re-asserts Leinster's dominance with another penalty

60 24 - 14

Ulster are over! Eventually the ball went wide to the left flank and Wallace made a decisive break to set up Tuohy in the corner

67 27 - 14

Sexton lands a straight forward penalty to take Leinster a step closer to a third Heineken Cup

72

Terblanche has been rightly shown a yellow card for a dump tackle on Cronin

73 30 - 14

Sexton slots the ball through the posts again from a tight angle

75 35 - 14

Van der Merwe canters in at the right corner for Leinster's fourth, underlining their supremacy at Twickenham and in Europe

79 40 - 14

Sean Cronin is over in the left corner to cap Leinster's fine perfromance

80 42 - 14

McFadden adds the conversion and Leinster have conquered Europe once again

Timeline

Time Leinster  Score  Ulster
0 start of first half start of first half
7 0 - 3 Pienaar - penalty goal
12 O'Brien - try 5 - 3
13 Sexton - conversion 7 - 3
31 Healy - try 12 - 3
32 Sexton - conversion 14 - 3
40+1 end of first half 14 - 6 Pienaar - penalty goal
end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
44 penalty try 19 - 6
45 Sexton - conversion 21 - 6 Jackson - sub off
Humphreys - sub on
48 21 - 9 Pienaar - penalty goal
51 Sexton - penalty goal 24 - 9
57 Cullen - sub off
Toner - sub on
60 24 - 14 Tuohy - try
62 McLaughlin - sub off
Healy - sub off
Jennings - sub on
van der Merwe - sub on
67 Strauss - sub off
O'Driscoll - sub off
Cronin - sub on
DR Kearney - sub on
Sexton - penalty goal
27 - 14 Faloon - sub on
Henry - sub off
69 White - sub on
Ross - sub off
Humphreys - sub off
Marshall - sub on
72 RDJ Kearney - sub off
O'Driscoll - sub on
Terblanche - yellow card
73 Sexton - penalty goal
Madigan - sub on
Sexton - sub off
30 - 14 Fitzpatrick - sub on
Afoa - sub off
74 Cooney - sub on
Reddan - sub off
McAllister - sub on
Court - sub off
75 van der Merwe - try 35 - 14
77 Brady - sub on
Best - sub off
79 Cronin - try 40 - 14 Cave - sub off
D'Arcy - sub on
Tuohy - sub off
Stevenson - sub on
80 McFadden - conversion 42 - 14
80+1 end of second half
end of half
end of second half
end of half
0
81

Notes

 
Result Leinster won by a margin of 28 points
 
Ground name Twickenham Stadium, London

Teams

Leinster Ulster
Tries O'Brien (12), Healy (31), Penalty try (44), van der Merwe (75), Cronin (79) Tries Tuohy (60)
Cons Sexton (13, 32, 45), McFadden (80) Cons none
Pens Sexton (51, 67, 73) Pens Pienaar (7, 40, 48)

Match stats

Leinster   Ulster
5 (1 penalty try) Tries 1
4 from 5 Conversion goals 0 from 1
3 from 4 Penalty goals 3 from 3
77.8% Kick at goal success 75.0%
0 Dropped goals 0 (1 missed)
Kick/pass/run
18 Kicks from hand 20
190 Passes 182
134 Runs 122
570 Metres run with ball 331
Attacking
49% (40%/57%) Possession (1H/2H) 51% (60%/43%)
47% (38%/54%) Territory (1H/2H) 53% (62%/46%)
10 Clean breaks 3
16 Defenders beaten 8
8 Offloads 9
103 from 108 (95.4%) Rucks won 96 from 102 (94.1%)
2 from 2 (100.0%) Mauls won 4 from 4 (100.0%)
14 Turnovers conceded 17
Defensive
129/8 Tackles made/missed 131/16
94.2% Tackling success rate 89.1%
Set pieces
1 won, 0 lost (100.0%) Scrums on own feed 8 won, 1 lost (88.9%)
11 won, 1 lost (91.7%) Lineouts on own throw 8 won, 1 lost (88.9%)
Discipline
10 Penalties conceded 7
0/0 Yellow/red cards 1/0

Leins stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB RDJ Kearney 0/0 0 4/5/13 102 0 2 1 1 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
W McFadden 0/0 2 1/2/9 37 1 1 0 1 5/1 0/0 2 0/0
C O'Driscoll 0/0 0 1/10/9 41 1 0 2 0 9/1 0/0 1 0/0
C D'Arcy 0/0 0 1/11/10 55 1 2 0 2 9/1 0/0 0 0/0
W Nacewa 0/0 0 0/3/10 35 0 1 1 2 8/1 1/0 1 0/0
FH Sexton 0/0 15 4/27/6 38 0 1 1 1 11/0 0/0 1 0/0
SH Reddan 0/2 0 5/90/5 35 1 1 2 3 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Healy 1/0 5 0/5/6 6 1 0 0 0 9/0 0/0 2 0/0
H Strauss 0/0 0 0/1/6 41 1 0 0 0 6/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Ross 0/0 0 0/1/5 3 0 0 0 0 10/0 0/0 1 0/0
L Cullen 0/0 0 0/0/4 4 0 0 0 0 13/2 0/0 1 0/0
L Thorn 0/0 0 0/1/6 11 0 0 0 2 13/1 3/1 1 0/0
F McLaughlin 0/0 0 0/3/5 6 0 0 0 0 8/0 3/0 0 0/0
F O'Brien 1/1 5 1/3/14 54 1 3 0 2 10/1 0/0 0 0/0
N8 Heaslip 0/0 0 0/0/7 6 0 0 0 0 8/0 2/0 0 0/0
(R) Cronin 1/1 5 0/3/5 20 1 1 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) van der Merwe 1/0 5 0/3/4 16 1 0 1 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) White 0/0 0 0/2/2 2 0 1 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Toner 0/0 0 0/1/1 2 0 0 0 0 3/0 2/0 0 0/0
(R) Jennings 0/0 0 0/1/3 17 0 1 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Cooney 0/0 0 0/12/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Madigan 0/0 0 1/5/1 4 0 1 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) DR Kearney 0/0 0 0/1/3 35 1 1 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

Ulst stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Terblanche 0/0 0 3/4/7 41 0 1 0 2 2/1 0/0 1 1/0
W Trimble 0/0 0 0/6/10 36 0 0 0 1 5/2 0/0 0 0/0
C Cave 0/0 0 2/6/11 41 1 1 2 0 8/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Wallace 0/1 0 0/15/6 27 0 2 1 0 9/1 0/0 0 0/0
W Gilroy 0/0 0 1/0/9 39 0 1 0 2 2/3 0/0 0 0/0
FH Jackson 0/0 0 4/21/3 18 0 0 0 2 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
SH Pienaar 0/0 9 7/88/3 19 0 0 1 2 5/1 0/0 0 0/0
P Court 0/0 0 0/2/8 9 1 0 1 1 10/2 0/0 1 0/0
H Best 0/0 0 0/3/4 4 0 0 0 0 11/0 0/0 1 0/0
P Afoa 0/0 0 0/5/13 24 0 2 1 0 11/0 1/0 1 0/0
L Muller 0/0 0 0/3/3 1 0 0 0 0 16/2 3/0 0 0/0
L Tuohy 1/0 5 0/0/11 8 1 1 0 2 9/0 3/0 1 0/0
F Ferris 0/0 0 1/5/16 32 0 0 1 1 17/1 0/0 0 0/0
F Henry 0/0 0 0/3/5 11 0 0 1 1 9/0 0/0 2 0/0
N8 Wannenburg 0/0 0 1/5/10 14 0 0 1 3 5/1 1/0 0 0/0
(R) Brady 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) McAllister 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Fitzpatrick 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Stevenson 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Faloon 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Marshall 0/0 0 0/6/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/2 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Humphreys 0/0 0 1/10/3 7 0 0 0 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) D'Arcy 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

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