Take for example the goal-kicking percentage where the Scarlets (88 per cent success-rate) appear to have an appreciable advantage over Leinster (79%). What it doesn’t clarify is that those figures are collated across three place-kickers from the respective teams. The statistics for the Scarlets endorse the Welsh club’s reputation for playing an expansive brand of rugby with 19 of the 21 tries scored by their backs, with scrumhalf Gareth Davies a leading contributor with four. Leinster (13) have given up six tries of that tally to wingers, a statistic that won’t be lost on the Scarlets, who in turn have conceded 14 tries (five to wings). Robbie Henshaw has racked up the best number from a Leinster viewpoint with five.

Source: The Irish Times April 19, 2018 06:00 UTC