LEINSTER MUST WIN win their final Pool 2 game away to Racing Metro this Friday night (kick off 8.00pm Irish time) to guarantee home advantage for the quarter finals of the European Cup.

Joe Schmidt’s side clinched their place in the last eight for the sixth time in seven seasons, running in half a dozen tries in an impressive 43-20 victory over Saracens at the RDS last Saturday and with the French side now out of the running following their defeat at the hands of Clermont Auvergne, Leinster travel to the French capital as warm favourites for the game.

Victory tonight could mean a lucrative home clash with Ulster in April and with Leinster now rated second favourites behind Toulouse to repeat their 2009 success in the competition, a trip to Dublin is one their rivals will be hoping to avoid when the pairings are finalised on Sunday evening.

Former Irish coach Eddie O’ Sullivan, Leinster’s Jonathan Sexton, Paul Wallace and Girvan Dempsey have been looking ahead with the Youghal man expecting Leinster to get what they need.