Composure key in Leinster victory, says Leo Cullen

Leo Cullen, the Leinster coach who has been feeling the pressure in his first year in the job, had to have been a very relieved man leaving Thomond Park last night having seen his team make light of a determined but ultimately flawed Munster challenge.

Typically, Cullen attempted to keep a phlegmatic lid on a 17-point win, stressing: “I don’t think 24-7 really reflects the game. We know what that feels like because when we played Wasps at home recently, the score got away from us at the end. It put a bit of a gloss on it.

“We talked beforehand about if we keep to our system and participate in defence, that we will get opportune tries from turnovers. So we got that try at the end and that try early in the game which I thought showed really good composure and a nice bit of clinical edge in finishing it off.”