O’Connell focused on eliminating mistakes

Paul O’Connell is convinced Munster can rectify the mistakes which led to last week’s 51-24 defeat by Glasgow Warriors and keep their dreams of Heineken Cup glory alive.

There has been plenty of soul-searching in Rob Penney’s squad after their nightmare visit to Scotland but the iconic second row wants the side to accentuate the positives ahead of a daunting quarter-final against Conor O’Shea’s impressive Harlequins.

“You can’t miss tackles and hand teams three tries with intercepts like we did. We played a good first half of rugby. We did a lot of the things we wanted to do and did them well. But we didn’t follow that up in the second half. The mistakes can be rectified and very easily too, that’s what we were aiming to do this week. These are frustrating things to happen but as a team you just have to move on, and we will. The way we played in the first half showed us a bit about ourselves; it was a great mixture of mauling, tight play, wide play and that’s what we want to do.”