Adam Byrne's wait for his Connacht debut will continue after suffering an injury set-back.
The winger was one of four Leinster players to move to the west in the summer.
But Byrne, 28, is yet to play for his new club and he will again sit out the action when his former side visit Galway on Friday night.
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“Adam is progressing really well," said Connacht head coach Pete Wilkins.
"He had some small issues with a foot injury that limited how much he could train in the last couple of weeks, so he has been working through that.
“So, he's not quite been at full fitness, but he's had enough training time with us for us to be excited about what he can offer.
“He has been working through that rehab with some modified training and he'll be back to full strength pretty soon.”
Connacht had three no 10s in the backline for last Friday's first home game of the season, the much-needed victory over Munster that got the men in green off the bottom of the URC table.
Wilkins described the selection of first choice out-half Jack Carty - who made his season bow - at 10, new recruit from Leinster Dave Hawkshaw at 12 and Conor Fitzgerald at full-back as "horses for courses".
While he said the selection could change this week for the visit of the early season pace-setters, Wilkins added that having all three on the pitch has got management "pretty excited about what it could be moving forward."
Connacht ran Leinster close at the Sportsground in the last 16 of the Champions Cup in April, only to be on the end of a 56-20 rout at the Aviva Stadium the following week.
From that, Wilkins has picked up some attacking tips that may come in useful this week.
"We had a lot of success in the first leg, and indeed in the first URC game at home last season, of playing through Leinster and attacking pretty direct, and splitting defenders with some of our running lines," he recalled.
"They tightened up their defence slightly in the second leg which took some of those half spaces away from us.
"What we failed to do in that game was adapt to that and identify the space that might have been out wide. We missed a trick and they obviously capitalised on that with the turnovers and possession they had.
"There's some really good lessons out of those Champions Cup games - and this week will be a good test to see how much we've learned from that.
"There's a confidence and momentum that comes from beating Munster, and we'll certainly look to build on that."
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