“It’s very hard to put your finger on it. “So does winning a final lead to a little bit of complacency? “Off the back of winning the final last week, does it take away a little bit of that edge of us versus the edge that they have because they know it’s their sole focus?” wondered Cullen post-match on Saturday.
Saracens deserve every bit of credit that’s coming their way, but Leinster must put their finger on what led to first-half errors and poor decisions on their part, all of them helping to add up to a 22-3 lead for Sarries at the break.
When the level moved up a notch, Leinster weren’t at the right pitch. Johnny Sexton speaks to his Leinster team-mates after the defeat to Saracens. The first part of the plan came to fruition as Leinster proved too good for Munster and Ulster in retaining their Pro14 title, but Saracens delivered a superb performance in Dublin on Saturday to ruin the second part, leaving Leinster looking for the answers as to what they got wrong.
Their Guinness Pro14 run-in would lead directly into the knock-out stages of the Champions Cup and the aim was to be lifting the European trophy on 17 October to complete a double, as well as an invincible season. LEINSTER VIEWED THE restart of the 2019/20 season as a World Cup campaign.
