CJ Stander: 'We as a team like the pressure. I think we perform better as a team'

CJ Stander believes Munster can thrive in the pressure they find themselves under as they battle to keep their Champions Cup hopes alive at Leicester this Sunday.

A defeat to the Tigers at Thomond Park last Saturday leaves Munster again under the cosh going into round four of their Pool 4 campaign. They are still to play their round two game in Paris against Stade Francais, postponed from November 22 in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the French capital. But, having lost at home last weekend, Anthony Foley’s side are up against it, just as they were a year ago following a Limerick loss to Clermont.

Last season’s return trip to France produced a losing bonus point at Stade Marcel Michelin but the home defeat seven days previously proved the death knell for Munster’s qualification ambitions.