Bradley looks for home comforts to shock Munster

CONNACHT coach Michael Bradley is wary of the threat Munster will pose at the Sportsground on Friday.

However he remains confident that his side can overcome the former Heineken Cup winners with the help of their home support.

So far this season, Connacht supporters have come out in record numbers and Bradley is well aware of the advantage his side will have in front of their home support.

“Connacht always look forward to the home derby matches in particular because the Sportsground sells out and the crowd get behind the team, which seems to raise our performances,” he said.

“Obviously we have to do that with Munster on a bit of a charge at the moment in trying to catch Leinster at the top of the Magners League.”

With 23 of their points coming from their backs last week, Munster have arguably their strongest backline for a number of years.

Nevertheless Bradley is just as keen to address Munster’s strengths up front.

“Munster tend to play a forward-orientated game, which will represent a different challenge to what Edinburgh did last week.

“Our first job is to contend with their power up front; once that’s done I’m quite confident that with home advantage and (given) the closeness of previous games, if we create enough opportunities we’ll have a good chance of winning the game.”