All-seeing Antoine Dupont should steer Toulouse towards first ever final meeting with Leinster

The greatest rugby player of all time against a team which is greater than the sum of its parts.

This much would have seemed a massive improbability to anyone who watched fifth-seeded Quins go life and death with a mostly off-colour Glasgow in their last-16 encounter at The Stoop.Here is where rugby can make fools of us all: on 23 March, Harlequins were obliterated by Saracens, 52-7, in a Premiership fixture at Twickenham Stadium. Two weeks later, Saracens were beaten out the gate by the effervescent Bordeaux in the Champions Cup last 16.

If their defence is porous — and it is — their attack has again become properly electrifying, as it was when they won their first Premiership title in nine years in 2021. It stems from a new-age, typically structured English club attack but branches into something as potent as it is exciting. Toulouse play through their opposition, just not in the traditional up-the-jumper, over-the-top sense.

Given their infield threats, the temptation may be to defend narrow against Les Toulousains but they’ll roast you down either edge if they get the ball to width. They’re equally dangerous in transition, from which they’ve scored five tries in this season’s Champions Cup and a hell of a lot more in the Top 14.

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