Champions Cup Final: TV info, team news, betting odds and everything else you need to know ahead of Leinster's clash with La Rochelle

The AVIVA Stadium plays host to European club rugby's most coveted prize on Saturday when Leinster face La Rochelle in the Champions Cup final.

Leo Cullen's men will be hoping to get revenge for last year's final defeat to Ronan O'Gara's side as they look to claim Europe's highest honour for a record-equalling fifth time.

When is it on?

The game itself kicks off at 4.45pm at the AVIVA Stadium in south Dublin and is being televised on RTÉ 2 and BT Sport 2, with coverage getting underway at 4pm.

It will also be streamed on RTÉ Player and BT Sport Player.

Team news

James Lowe returns to Leinster's starting XV along with Robbie Henshaw, with both men being the only changes made by Cullen from the squad that won the semi-final against Toulouse 41-22.

La Rochelle have only made two changes as well with Jonathan Danty and Paul Boudehent back in the squad.

LEINSTER: Hugo Keenan; Jimmy O’Brien, Garry Ringrose, Robbie Henshaw, James Lowe; Ross Byrne, Jamison Gibson-Park; Andrew Porter, Dan Sheehan, Tadhg Furlong; Ross Molony, James Ryan (capt); Caelan Doris, Josh van der Flier, Jack Conan.

Replacements: Rónan Kelleher, Cian Healy, Michael Ala’alatoa, Jason Jenkins, Ryan Baird, Luke McGrath, Ciarán Frawley, Charlie Ngatai.

LA ROCHELLE: B Dulin; D Leyds, UJ Seuteni, J Danty, R Rhule; A Hastoy, T Kerr-Barlow; R Wardi, P Bourgarit, U Atonio; R Sazy, W Skelton; P Boudehent, L Botia, G Alldritt (capt).

Replacements: Q Lespiaucq Brettes, J Sclavi, G Henri Colombe, T Lavault, R Bourdeau, U Dillane, T Berjon, J Favre.

What's at stake?

Leinster will be out for revenge first and foremost after they lost last year's decider in Marseille to La Rochelle. They're also in the hunt for their fifth European trophy with their last win coming in 2018.

The Blues will also be looking to make up for missing out on a potential double having lost the URC semi-final to Munster last Saturday.

Meanwhile, La Rochelle will be hoping to win their second ever European title in back-to-back fashion.

What has been said?

O'Gara says that he expects a better Leinster side than was seen against Munster last week.

He said: "Last weekend there were 12 Leinster internationals in the stands for the game against Munster. Munster won, but it wasn’t against Leinster’s strongest side. It was like for us in Montpellier. It will be a completely different team.

“We’re expecting the best version of Leinster and the best version of them is a formidable task. We know how difficult it is going to be, but we want to test ourselves against the best.”

Leinster coach Stuart Lancaster is expecting a tough test for The Blues.

He said: "They’re obviously competitive on both sides of the ball in that defensively, they’re very strong.

“They’ll get aggressive line-speed, be competitive at the breakdown and in attack, they have the capacity, because of the size of the forwards, to play a tight game but also a game with width, because they have power and pace in the backline.

“If you were going to pick your dream backline to recruit, you’d have power, pace and footballers, and La Rochelle have all three.”

Odds

The bookies make Leinster 3/10 favourites for the match while their French opponents are priced at 13/5 to claim the Champions Cup for a second successive season.