Edinburgh v Leinster: Teams
Leinster travel to Murrayfield knowing they need to beat Edinburgh to realistically maintain their hopes of progress from Pool 6.
Last Updated: 14/12/07 2:38pm
Leinster travel to Murrayfield on Saturday knowing they need to beat Edinburgh to realistically maintain their hopes of progress from Pool 6.
The Irish outfit bounced back from their hammering against Toulouse on match-day two with an important 28-14 victory over Edinburgh last time out.
They will be keen to build on that result in Scotland and have included Guy Easterby in their line-up after the scrum-half rejoined the club this week.
Gervan Dempsey is another new face with the Ireland international returning at full-back after three weeks out through injury.
Edinburgh have lost all three of their games in the competition to date - a situation from which no team has previously recovered to qualify.
The Scots will be without prop Craig Smith who has a calf injury, that means Augusto Allori will switch to tighthead with Allan Jacobsen coming in at loosehead.
Number eight David Callam (neck) is also laid low and is replaced by Allister Hogg.
Edinburgh: B Cairns; A Turnbull, N De Luca, J Houston, S Webster; P Godman, M Blair (capt); Allan Jacobsen, R Ford, A Allori, M Mustchin, B Gissing, S Cross, R Rennie, A Hogg
Replacements: A Kelly, G Cross, C Hamilton, R Reid, B Meyer, D Blair, C MacRae.
Leinster: G Dempsey; S Horgan, B O'Driscoll (capt), G D'Arcy, R Kearney; F Contepomi, G Easterby; O Le Roux, B Jackman, S Wright, L Cullen, M O'Kelly, S Keogh, S Jennings, J Heaslip
Replacements: B Blaney, C Healy, C Jowitt, K Gleeson, C Keane, J Sexton, L Fitzgerald.
Referee: Tim Hayes (Wales)
