Leo Cullen is hopeful that Hugo Keenan and Garry Ringrose will be available for Leinster's Investec Champions Cup semi-final against Northampton Saints.
The BKT URC leaders, currently in South Africa preparing to take on the Stormers on Saturday, face the English Premiership table-toppers at Croke Park on Saturday, 4 May.
Ireland full-back Keenan withdrew from their European quarter-final win over La Rochelle prior to the game on 13 April with a hip injury, while centre Ringrose has been out of action with a shoulder issue since the last game of the Six Nations campaign on 16 March.
The duo, along with versatile back Jimmy O’Brien, who is recovering from a neck injury, will be further assessed this week.
"[Hugo] trained the week of the La Rochelle game and on the Thursday it didn’t quite settle down. Then on the Friday he did the warm-up and he said it didn’t feel quite right.
"We said we’d let him sleep on it and talk the following [match] day.
"He played the week before and he trained that week.
"Some of the guys had time off last week so they are coming back in today.
"Garry should be fine and Jimmy is a bit more delicate from his neck.
"He’s been training away for a good few weeks not so he’s just waiting on that final sign-off. That’s between him and the specialist."
Centre Charles Ngatai and scrum-half Cormac Foley both reported no issues after their comeback games against the Lions, while Brian Deeny was a late withdrawal "as a precaution" before the match and will be assessed during the week.
Leinster suffered a rare league loss in Johannesburg, failing to pick up a bonus point in a 44-12 defeat.
Their lead at the top of the table was reduced to just one point with Glasgow keeping up the pressure in second with four regular-season matches to play.
"The start was poor from us," said the head coach, whose side shipped three tries in the opening 13 minutes.
"There were some defensive pieces there we could be better at.
"We created a lot of opportunities, but we lacked a killer instinct. There was a lot of huffing and puffing, we’d a lot of territory, a lot of possession, we just couldn’t get the ball down over the tryline.
"We just weren’t clinical enough. We lacked a bit of physical edge, which is disappointing.
"We all need to take ownership of that. The guys are frustrated at how we went.
"They had to do very little work for their scores."
Saturday’s opponents Stormers suffered a surprise loss to Ospreys at the weekend and prop Michael Milne (above, left) says both sides will have similar build-ups after disappointing results.
"They are probably having the same meetings as us this week," said the Offaly man.
"If you look at their team, [Frans] Malherbe, [Joseph] Dweba, [Evan] Roos, they are a very good team.
"It’s going to be two teams going hell for leather and we’re very much looking forward to it."
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