Jackman: No obvious weakness in Leinster's game

Bernard Jackman says there is no obvious weakness in Leinster's game for Ulster to exploit, if they want to pull off a shock in Saturday's Champions Cup Round of 16 meeting at the Aviva Stadium (live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player).

The four-time champions are heavy favourites to win the inter-provincial clash on Saturday evening, which would set up another home tie versus either Leicester Tigers or Edinburgh in the last eight.

Leo Cullen's side went through the pool stage like a wrecking ball with four wins from four against Gloucester and Racing 92, scoring an average of seven tries and 46 points per game, while also conceding just 34 points in total.

"I spent yesterday trying to build a piece on Leinster's weaknesses for pre-match for RTÉ, and I just scrapped it, to be honest," Jackman told the RTE Rugby podcast.

And while the former Ireland hooker did identify one side of Leinster's game that could be exposed, he's unsure how much Ulster will have the opportunity to do so.

"The only area that is a concern is their maul defence, and Gloucester really went after them [in the pool stage]. Gloucester are the best attacking maul in the Premiership, and they exposed Leinster there.

"Ironically that's probably one of Ulster's biggest weapons, their maul attack. The problem for Ulster is, can they get enough opportunities to use that in range?

"Leinster tend to be very disciplined, they have a very good kicking game, so you don't get that many opportunities to kick it five metres out and use the maul. Leinster probably learned from that Gloucester game, I expect them to be a bit better. They weren't full strength that day, I think they'll be stronger on paper this weekend, and I think they'll have worked on that.

"I don't see any obvious