Skrela leads Toulouse into Final

Fly-half David Skrela scored 21 points as Toulouse booked a place in the Heineken Cup Final with a 26-16 win over Leinster on Saturday.

Dominant in the set pieces, especially at scrum time, Toulouse outscored their visitors two tries to one as Yannick Jauzion and Skrela both touched down.

Jamie Heaslip's try for Leinster was not enough for the defending champions, who fought back, but fell short.

Toulouse will meet either Biarritz or Munster in the Final at the Stade de France in Paris on May 22.

The champions were defiant until the end but paid the price for leaking two tries to Jauzion and Skrela in the space of four minutes heading into the final quarter.

Man-of-the-match Skrela had the greatest impact on the scoreboard with a sixteen-point kicking haul topped by his superb try, but Toulouse's scrum also did major damage.

Leinster suffered terribly at the set-piece and continued to struggle upon the arrival of South African CJ van der Linde after half an hour.

Van der Linde had replaced Cian Healy - the Ireland prop obviously culpable for the problems in the eyes of coach Michael Cheika - but Toulouse still dominated.

The tournament favourites and three-time winners had the perfect platform to attack while Leinster, whose line-out functioned well, often had to feed off scraps.