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Leinster v Edinburgh</div>
Leinster are one of the few teams going into this weekend knowing exactly what they have to do and needing to rely on nobody else in the event that they get their own job done.
As long as Leinster match Wasps result this weekend they'll go through as pool winners.
In an ideal world they'd be hoping for the Scarlets and Ospreys to get wins this weekend to give them a home quarter final but I suspect if you'd offered an away quarter final after the Castres defeat they would have snapped your hand off.
As for the game itself Leinster will be without CJ, Cullen and O'Kelly in the pack, so Toner and Hogan look set to start as well as Healy and Wright should he prove his fitness in the front row. The backline looks to be unchanged from last week.
Edinburgh for their part have made a raft of changes, there's no Blair or Godman and the team looks more reminiscent of the side that took a hiding at the RDS rather than the side which took to the field for the pool opener back in October.
There's no excuses for Leinster, despite the missing players, they really should get the job done and there'll be serious questions to be answered if they don't.
Leinster: tbc
Edinburgh: Chris Paterson, Andrew Turnbull, John Houston, Nick De Luca, Simon Webster, David Blair, Greig Laidlaw, Kyle Traynor, Andrew Kelly, Geoff Cross, Craig Hamilton, Ben Gissing, Scott Newlands, Simon Cross, Allister Hogg (captain).
Replacements: Steve Lawrie, Gavin Kerr, Jim Hamilton, Alan MacDonald, Ben Meyer, Jim Thompson, Roland Reid.
Leinster v Edinburgh</div>
Leinster are one of the few teams going into this weekend knowing exactly what they have to do and needing to rely on nobody else in the event that they get their own job done.
As long as Leinster match Wasps result this weekend they'll go through as pool winners.
In an ideal world they'd be hoping for the Scarlets and Ospreys to get wins this weekend to give them a home quarter final but I suspect if you'd offered an away quarter final after the Castres defeat they would have snapped your hand off.
As for the game itself Leinster will be without CJ, Cullen and O'Kelly in the pack, so Toner and Hogan look set to start as well as Healy and Wright should he prove his fitness in the front row. The backline looks to be unchanged from last week.
Edinburgh for their part have made a raft of changes, there's no Blair or Godman and the team looks more reminiscent of the side that took a hiding at the RDS rather than the side which took to the field for the pool opener back in October.
There's no excuses for Leinster, despite the missing players, they really should get the job done and there'll be serious questions to be answered if they don't.
Leinster: tbc
Edinburgh: Chris Paterson, Andrew Turnbull, John Houston, Nick De Luca, Simon Webster, David Blair, Greig Laidlaw, Kyle Traynor, Andrew Kelly, Geoff Cross, Craig Hamilton, Ben Gissing, Scott Newlands, Simon Cross, Allister Hogg (captain).
Replacements: Steve Lawrie, Gavin Kerr, Jim Hamilton, Alan MacDonald, Ben Meyer, Jim Thompson, Roland Reid.
