Tadhg Furlong and Robbie Henshaw have been dominated out of Leinster’s United Rugby Championship quarter-final towards Scarlets at Aviva Stadium on Saturday (15:00 BST).
Leinster mentioned prop Furlong is unavailable after choosing up a “minor calf harm” whereas centre Henshaw has sustained a knee drawback which may preserve him out for 4 weeks.
In additional optimistic information, Jordan Larmour is in competition to function after being sidelined for 5 months with a hamstring harm.
The 27-year-old wing, who has 32 Eire caps, has been restricted to only 5 appearances this season, the final of which got here towards Munster on 27 December.
Furlong has additionally endured an injury-plagued marketing campaign. The 32-year-old has solely managed eight appearances for Leinster whereas calf and hamstring points restricted him to only one substitute look in Eire’s Six Nations marketing campaign.
Regardless of his lack of recreation time, he was named in Andy Farrell’s British and Irish Lions squad final month.
Furlong began all three Checks within the 2017 and 2021 Lions sequence in New Zealand and South Africa.
Leinster are prime seeds within the URC play-offs after ending the common season prime of the standings, however fell to a shock 35-22 loss to Scarlets in Llanelli final month.
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