Gerry Thornley meets the European Player of the Year, Sean O'Brien, and runs through some pretty impressive stats in The Irish Times.
"In starting all nine of Leinster’s Heineken Cup games, O’Brien played the first four at number six, the next two at eight and the three knockout games at seven, scoring four tries and picking up three man-of-the-match awards, and even before his storming performance in the final, he led the Opta rankings as the tournament’s top-performing attacking and defensive player.
"O’Brien had made more carries (115) than any other player, as well as more metres than any other forward. The 24-year-old had also beaten 19 defenders, a competition high by any back or forward, before taking that into the 20s in the final, prior to which only Joe Worsley (90) had made more tackles than O’Brien (84)."
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