Keatley: We learned a lesson from defeat to Racing

A postmortem into Munster’s Heineken Cup loss to Racing Metro last week has revealed a startling statistic: Racing kicked the ball 61 times while Munster, despite the wet conditions, only punted the ball up field on 30 occasions.

Clearly, Ian Keatley wasn’t about to complain about the approach into which everyone in the squad has bought into, but he did muse that they might “have taken a leaf from their book”.

“I think it is pretty obvious what our game plan is. It is an expansive game plan and we are actually getting good mileage from it but once or twice it broke down.