Leinster ease past dreadful Glasgow to reach semi-final

If there was any danger of Leinster suffering a European hangover, Richie Gray made sure it wouldn't be an issue.

The defending champions had looked rusty in the opening quarter of an hour against Glasgow Warriors at the RDS, until a moment of stupidity from the Scottish second row opened the door for Leo Cullen's side, who rarely need to even be given the invitation.

At the time of Gray's sin-binning for a reckless clearout on Jamison Gibson-Park, the Warriors had been 7-0 in front and frustrating Leinster, who were struggling to find their beat.

But they were ruthless in that period, running in three converted tries to take control of the game, and from that point they never looked back.

Jordan Larmour followed up his mesmeric performance against Munster with another scorching display, scoringtwo tries and setting up two more, leaving many of the small 9346 attendance wondering what might have been had the wing played in Marseille a week ago.

Dan Sheehan bookended their four first half tries, either side of scores for Joe McCarthy and Larmour, as Leinster all but killed the game off by the interval.

By the hour mark they had moved past 50 points and were cutting a brutal Glasgow defence open at will, Caelan Doris and Michael Ala'alatoa crashing their way over, before Gibson-Park and Ringrose scored, both set up by Larmour.

It was a pathetic second half display from the Warriors, who allowed four more tries as Leinster pushed towards the 80 point mark. Larmour's second was followed by scores for Frawley, Luke McGrath and Jimmy O'Brien, as the defending champions gave themselves a bonus training session ahead of the visit of the Bulls in the semi-finals next Friday night.

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