Cian Healy will be key to Leinster's chances against Toulouse
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Leinster prop Cian Healy will be desperate to exorcise some demons against Toulouse in the Heineken Cup semi-final on Saturday, according to the Irish Independent’s Hugh Farrelly.
"As Cian Healy's career unfolds, May 1, 2010 could well be flagged as a turning point.
On that clammy evening in the Stade Municipal in Toulouse, the young Leinster loose-head was presented with a test of such physical and psychological enormity that it automatically arrived with the "making or breaking" moniker attached.
The then 22-year-old was turned inside out by Toulouse tight-head Benoit Lecouls, and with Daan Human performing similar acts of savagery on Stan Wright on the far side, Leinster's primary set-piece platform was in disarray from the off, handing the impetus to the home team and preventing Michael Cheika's men from establishing any sort of a foothold….
Toulouse have an array of formidable front-row options to choose from again this weekend, but they are coming up against a different animal this time around."
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