Top 10 Heineken Champions Cup pool stats

With the pool stage of the Heineken Champions Cup now over for another season, we pick out 10 notable statistics at the end of those six rounds. Toulouse won all six pool matches for the first time in their history. Leinster Rugby won all six pool matches for a fourth time and registered their highest ever match-points total of 28. Leinster centre Garry Ringrose, Racing 92 wing Teddy Thomas and Exeter Chiefs back-row forward Sam Simmonds finished the pool stage as joint-leading try-scorers on six apiece. When Toulouse play their quarter-final against Ulster Rugby in early April, they will equal Munster Rugby’s tournament record of 18 knockout stage appearances. Ulster scrum-half John Cooney was the top points-scorer in the pool stage with 71, including five tries. https://twitter.com/ExeterChiefs/status/1218952642434666498?s=20 Exeter will stage a Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final at Sandy Park for the first time in their history. Racing centre Virimi Vakatawa beat the most defenders during the pool stage with 39. Ollie Thorley, the Gloucester Rugby wing, was the leading metre-maker during the pool stage on 564. Leinster flanker Josh van der Flier was the top tackler from the pool stage with 98. Holders Saracens qualified for the knockout stage for the ninth season in a row.