Leinster head coach Leo Cullen admitted his gamers must present character to beat the crushing disappointment of shedding a 3rd consecutive Investec Champions Cup ultimate.
Toulouse scaled the summit of European rugby for an unprecedented sixth time after ending strongly in a 31-22 victory at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium that wanted further time to separate the rivals.
Antoine Dupont was excellent for the French champions, who had the boot of Thomas Ramos to thank for pushing them clear after the primary 80 minutes completed 15-15.
With the United Rugby Championship nonetheless in play, Leinster should now get better rapidly from one other slim defeat within the ultimate having misplaced to La Rochelle in 2022 and 2023.
“Everyone seems to be devastated. We’ve been on the shedding aspect on a couple of events now,” Cullen stated. “We have to see what we’re all product of now, as onerous as that will probably be. We’ll course of it and transfer on to the subsequent problem towards Connacht on the RDS on Friday evening. They received’t make life simple for us.
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“The lads have been immense within the character they’ve proven they usually most likely want to point out a little bit of character now since you get the sense of what’s coming whenever you lose one other ultimate. We now have to have the ability to cope with that ourselves.
“There’s not a scarcity of perception that we will do that, it’s simply ensuring that we stick at it as a result of we are going to get throughout the road.”
Leinster alternative Ciaran Frawley kicked the penalty that ensured further time, however he was additionally narrowly large with a late drop-goal try that may have snatched victory.
“It comes all the way down to the best factor. There was a drop objective on the finish and if that goes a metre to the proper then we’re having a really completely different dialog right here. That’s the character of sport on the prime finish,” Cullen stated.
“I’m undecided the sport obtained away from us. It was a really tight contest. We had some actually optimistic passages of play. Toulouse scrambled nicely and got here up with massive moments defensively and that was the distinction.
“The lads had been immense on the market and saved firing photographs all through however didn’t get the rewards for many distinction causes. We poured lots into it. We simply felt we’re so near breaking them and most of the people within the stadium would have that sense.”
