Heartbreak for Leinster at the Stade Velodrome as their latest attempt to gain a fifth Champions Cup star ended in a devastating last-minute defeat.
Holding a four-point advantage coming into the closing stages, the Blues found themselves defending for their lives from the 72nd minute, as Ronan O'Gara's La Rochelle pushed and pushed to score the try that would hand them a first-ever European crown.
What followed was a patient suffocation of the Blues, who coughed up penalty after penalty and scrum after scrum at the end of an engrossing, epic contest played out in hot conditions in Marseille.
