Twickenham Timeline

How Leinster made it three

16.30:Isaac Boss's quad doesn't get him through the opening stretches of the warm-up so 22-year-old John Cooney, with just five caps for Leinster and one start, is promoted to the bench.

17.01: Ulster kick off. Eoin Reddan box kicks to Stefan Terblanche, who returns it skywards. Sprinting from over 20 metres away, Rob Kearney leaps and catches mid-air, only for Ulster to be awarded the scrum.

3 mins:Darren Cave steps Leo Cullen for the first line break of the day but Cullen recovers to secure a turnover two phases on.

Leinster survive the first assault unbloodied.

7 mins:Ulster penalty wide left, for Leinster players going off their feet, allows Ruan Pienaar put Ulster on the scoreboard, 0-3.

10-13 mins:Leinster try. Terblanche kicks out on the full from his 22 but Jamie Heaslip can't secure the lineout. But from Ulster's second scrum Pedrie Wannenburg picks from the base only to cough up the ball. Gordon D'Arcy makes two telling contributions – stutter stepping between Paddy Wallace and John Afoa and flinging a reverse pass to Kearney, who is just held short, after going past Wannenburg. Seánie O'Brien eventually powers through Wannenburg, again, and Tom Court. Sexton's conversion from the left makes it 7-3.

14 mins:Leinster penalty. Paddy Jackson offside, out to the right but Sexton doesn't make clean contact.

21 mins:Chris Henry does well to free his hands in midfield for a one-two with Wannenburg but the attack dies five metres short of the Leinster line when Terblanche is put into touch.

22 mins:Play swings wildly downfield with Richardt Strauss galloping clear after Fergus McFadden and Craig Gilroy contest a Garryowen. D'Arcy and Reddan keep the attack flowing but it ends with Brian O'Driscoll's sloppy pass to Isa Nacewa allowing Stevie Ferris bury the winger into touch. Ferris hurts his knee in the process.

30-32 mins:Leinster Try. Leinster steal Pienaar's scrum feed. O'Driscoll steps Muller and gives a clever inside pass that sees O'Brien brush past Gilroy but Rory Best arrives to make a heroic try-saving tackle. The blue wave keeps coming though, as Cian Healy carries Andrew Trimble and Cave over the line. Two tries off two Ulster scrums, Sexton makes it 14-3.

35 mins:Ulster go on the all-out offensive. A skip pass by Paddy Wallace finds Ferris on the left tramline but McFadden puts him down. It comes back to Jackson, who attempts a drop goal in front of the posts. A poor strike goes wide.

40 mins:Ulster penalty. Pienaar lands a freakish kick from wide left, four metres inside his own half, to make it 14-6 at half-time.

Second half

43 mins:Jackson makes another costly error. Ferris fumbles the ball into the 22, before passing to his outhalf, who seeks assistance from the referee but doesn't get any so he kicks out on the full, giving Leinster an ideal foothold in Ulster territory. The Ireland under-20s captain looks shell- shocked.

44 mins:Leinster try. The Leinster eight walk towards the Ulster line. Nigel Owens is quick to run under the posts after Court, Ferris and Trimble collapse the relentless driving maul. Sexton's conversion makes it 21-6. Game over.

45 mins:Jackson is replaced by Ian Humphreys.

48-51 mins:Ulster and Leinster trade penalties, 24-9.

52 mins:The feral O'Brien makes a brilliant steal on the ground to halt another Ulster attack.

60 mins:Ulster try. Wallace draws four defenders and still gets his hands free to put Dan Tuohy over wide left. Pienaar misses the conversion from near the touchline so it's 24-14.

67 mins:Leinster penalty. There's a raft of replacements, including the removal of the relatively anonymous Chris Henry, while O'Driscoll disappears down the tunnel with a blood injury as Sexton punishes Best for going off his feet, 27-14.

69 mins:Humphreys leaves the field, seemingly concussed, replaced by Paul Marshall, with Pienaar switching to outhalf.

72 mins:Leinster penalty. In perhaps his last act as a rugby player Terblanche dumps Seán Cronin on his neck. Owens shows the yellow card for an offence that was red last October. Sexton's sixth from seven shots makes it 30-14.

7 5-77 mins:Leinster try. Heinke van der Merwe races over for a try and is mobbed by his team-mates, 35-14.

80 mins: Leinster try. Clinical to the finish, the immense O'Brien draws Ferris before putting Cronin in for the fifth Leinster try. McFadden converts for a 42-14 final score. Cullen and Shane Jennings hoist the Heineken Cup, just as they did the English Premiership trophy in 2007 before returning home from Leicester.