Munster lost Peter O’Mahony to injury at the start of the game but held out for a 14-5 win in Glasgow.
MUNSTER DUG OUT a defence-dominated match in Glasgow to set up a trip to Dublin in the semi finals of the United Rugby Championship. Munster were under pressure for a lot of the game but a five-minute patch in the first half, which saw a red card for the hosts’ fly half Tom Jordan and two tries for Munster on either side of it, was enough to decide the game.
The early signs could hardly have been worse for Munster. Not only did the spend most of the opening quarter under huge pressure but they lost captain and talisman Peter O’Mahoney to an arm injury after only four minutes. He went down with the problem in only the second phase of the game, tried to struggle on, but soon had to accept reality. When he was soon followed off by RG Snyman – a head injury – it looked grim.
They also turned down a series of kickable penalties and Munster reaped the reward when they eventually broke the siege and scored on their first meaningful visit to the Scots’ 22. The big men up front did most of the had work but it was centre Malakai Fekitoa who eventually found the space to crash over.
They didn’t have to sparkle to run this one out: more of the same was always going to be good enough. Crucially they had the measure of the Glasgow maul, one of the home side’s main scoring weapons, and the extra man out wide made it almost impossible for the Scots to stretch the red defence.They may have spent long periods in their own 22, but in reality were rarely troubled, surviving scrum penalties under their posts and line out drives without undue trouble until into the closing stages.
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