Antoine Dupont plans to add to Leinster's Champions Cup final woe

Antoine Dupont is hoping that Toulouse can exploit Leinster's recent bad memories of Champions Cup finals.

The meeting of European club rugby's blue bloods in London on May 25 pits the sides who have won the competition more than any other - Leinster (four times) and Toulouse (five times).

It is the first-ever meeting of the competition's most successful teams in a final, but Leinster have won seven to Toulouse's six in their 13 head to head meetings to date.

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And Leinster have won the last three meetings of the rivals - and the most recent couple were semi-final triumphs for the Blues (2019 and 2022).

"There will be one happy and one disappointed at the end of this meeting," said Dupont. "The will is the same on both sides.

"“The Leinster players have beaten us twice in the semis in the last two years but they have reached the final twice without winning it.

"So I don't know who is more unhappy in the story.”

Antoine Dupont
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Speaking after Toulouse's semi-final victory over Harlequins, it wasn't the only time that Dupont referred to the province's back to back final defeats to La Rochelle.

“It will be against an opponent that we know very well and who wants to win as much as we do," said the scrum-half who scored two first half tries for the Red and Blacks.

"It’s twice that Leinster have lost in the final. We know them very well, they know us very well. It's up to us to understand it as best we can to emerge victorious.

“We obviously suspected, when we know the qualities of this team and its appetite for this competition, that Leinster would find themselves in this place.

"But we had to focus on ourselves. We know that it's extremely hard to get there - and the last step is certainly the most difficult."

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