2024-04-13 05:00:00
Maritimes and Dubliners face each other for the fifth time in four years. With a new shock at the top, Saturday, for a place in the last four of the Champions Cup.
In 2010, Stade Rochelais was still in Pro D2. A decade later, the club founded in 1898 has become a major European club, winning the last two editions of the Champions Cup. A real tour de force achieved each time against Leinster, the Irish province which mainly makes up the Clover XV, winner of the last two Six Nations Tournaments. And, for the fifth time in four years, the paths of the Maritimes and the Dubliners will cross, this Saturday in Dublin, in the quarter-finals of the Champions Cup.
It all started in 2021 with a resounding, powerful victory for Stade Rochelais (32-23), in the semi-final, in an empty Marcel-Deflandre stadium, in the midst of the Covid-19 health crisis. In the wake of the two finals won by the Rochelais, at the Stade-Vélodrome (24-21) then at the Aviva Stadium (27-26), the phalanx coached by Ronan O’Gara crossed swords with the Leinstermen at the start of in winter, during the first match of this edition. For a first…
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