Munster don't pay full price for errors

Regrets emanated from the lips of men emerging from the Munster dressing room after this opening Champions Cup draw in France, but relief can’t have been absent as the final whistle blew yesterday afternoon.

They will certainly have played much better in the past and lost.

Twice in the closing minutes Benjamin Urdapilleta had kicks at the posts to claim the win for the hosts — the second of them a drop goal in injury-time — but both were rebuffed by a swirling wind that belied the blue skies and temperatures reaching the mid-twenties.