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***It is a long time since a Cardiff team won in the Heineken Cup. The old Cardiff side lost their last seven games and David Young's Cardiff Blues team made it eight in a row with their narrow defeat at Sale. That means they are one short of Padova and The Borders with nine straight European defeats.
***Defeat at Sale Sharks made it nine defeats in a row on the road for the Cardiff teams.
***Leinster Lions will be seeking their fifth win in a row over Welsh opposition when they travel to Cardiff Arms Park for the first time in the
***Heineken Cup this weekend. They lost their only previous meeting with Cardiff in the inaugural tournament's semi-final at Lansdowne Road.
***Charlie Hodgson's match winning drop goal against Cardiff Blues was the first by a Sale Sharks player in the Heineken Cup in their seven matches in the tournament.
***Biarritz will be the ninth different French side Sale Sharks have faced in European competition. They have lost in France in the European Challenge Cup to Agen (twice), Montferrand, Montpellier, Perpignan, Auch and Pau and beaten Narbonne. They lost to Bourgoin in the Heineken Cup last season.
" Biarritz' French World Cup full back Nicolas Brusque knows a thing or two about Sale Sharks. He scored three tries in two European Challenge Cup matches against them in the 1999/2000 tournament.
