Lost and Connacht have it back

Connacht clear, Larmour runs it back towards halfway

Ball unplayable, Connacht going forward get the scrum

Harry Byrne gets the match underway for Leinster, taken by Hansen

Late change as Oisin Dowling is ruled out, so Leva Fifita is handed his first Connacht start. Sean Masterson comes onto the bench.

Leinster host rivals Connacht in round 7 of the United Rugby Championship. Leinster has won five of their six matches to top the standings, but will look to bounce back from their first defeat at the hands of Ulster 20-10. Connacht have recorded three victories and three losses from their six games to lie sixth in the table.

Defeat to Ulster in Round 6 ended Leinster’s six-game winning run but they have never lost successive matches at the RDS Arena.



Connacht will arrive in confident mood following back-to-back bonus-point victories over Ulster and the Ospreys, although their most recent away win came back in May – at Munster in the Rainbow Cup.



The visitors will look to draw on their most recent experience of playing at the RDS in January when they emerged as 35-24 victors – their first win on Leinster soil since September 2002.