Heineken Cup Third Phase Assessment

Heineken Cup Third Round Appraisal

In Group 1 Castres played the Saints at Stade Pierre Antoine, with Castres winning 41 points to 22 while 5000 viewers watched. The Saints have had a tough series. Even though they were beaten runner-up in the last contest, after three rounds they still haven't been able to catalogue a decision this series.

Fellow Group 1 members, Munster and Scarlets kicked off at Parc y Scarlets, resulting in Munster rugby gaining advantage in their third game successively, 14 - 17 in front of in excess of 13000 viewers. Old Munster rugby team stalwart O'Gara got to his hundredth Heineken Cup cap at the event, capping off a breathtaking contest so far. In the brace of matches prior, 1st against Northampton Saints plus then against Castres he obtained a win in the final seconds with a drop goal. In the Saints match the drop goal resulted in the 84th minute after 41 consecutive hit ups by Munster rugby. During his dominant career the Munster rugby team pivot has a number of distinctions.

The Munster rugby number ten has vied in 116 tests for Ireland notching almost eleven-thousand scores, and a separate 2 tests for the British and Irish Lions. O'Gara has been on three British and Irish Lions camps, in '01, '05 and '09. During Ronan O'Gara's Ireland employment the gentleman has came top in 2009 6 Nations Championship in addition to the Full set in that competition. Ireland more than that topped the tests against England, Wales and Scotland in 2004, 2006, 2007 along with 2009.

Stade Yves du Manoir in Paris and Cardiff City Stadium in The United Kingdom saw results in the 3rd phase 2nd pool matches. At the start, a demanding 25 - 8 knock out for Edinburgh rugby versus the Blues. 2nd, Racing M?tro 92 suffered a disastrous downfall to London Irish.

Firhill Arena hosted Montpellier take a beating to Glasgow twenty versus 15 scores. The Rec saw existent champions The Leinster club defeat Bath rugby. Both games was decided by only five scores then Pool Three matches were copious amounts tighter.

There were quite assertive wins for the two pool 4 home franchises in chapter 3. At Ravenhill, Ulster won against Aironi Rugby 31 points versus 10. Already in the same evening, The Clermont Auvergne side had triumphed over The Tigers 30 versus 12 at Stade Marcel Michelin.

The final scores in the Group 5 matches happened to be notably comparable. Both out of town sides, Biarritz Olympique along with Ospreys missed out, despite notching twenty-six points. Biarritz's opponents Benetton Treviso registered thirty points so they would finish in front with 4 scores at Stadio Comunale di Monigo. Saracens won against Ospreys by means of five points in the vicinity of the outstanding Wembley Stadium. The Wembley crowd showed up, by means of in excess of 40,000 critics in attendance, which was the distinction for greatest admirers in round three. They saw a noticeably tense yet big producing match.

Concurrently the two home ground franchises in Group 6 recorded 10 scores and went astray versus their itinerant rivals. Situated at The Twickenham Stoop, Toulouse scored twenty-one scores to get around Harlequins by means of eleven points. Already that evening Gloucester Rugby reached a brutal four score victory versus the Connact rugby side in the vicinity of The Sports Ground.

After 3 rounds of Heineken Cup rugby, Saracens, Clermont Auvergne, Toulouse, Leinster and Irish rugby province Munster are in the lead of their respective pools. At this chapter of the tournament, the Scarlets and Ulster would be in the running for the yearned for 7th and eighth finals rankings. We are at this moment half way down the contest, and there are 3 extra Heineken Cup weeks before the finals.

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