Scarlets will quickly blank Saturday blushes

As far as preparation goes for your biggest game in a decade, a 50-point hammering is not ideal.

But despite being thrashed 52-14 by Edinburgh, the Scarlets will resemble an altogether different foe for Leinster in Saturday’s Champions Cup semi-final compared to the team beaten in Scotland at the weekend.

With their focus fully on Europe’s last four and a trip to the Aviva Stadium, Scarlets rested all of their first-choice XV at BT Murrayfield and paid the price, shipping eight tries in the process. “Our young guys will have learned a lot from this and we’ll go home and debrief, but of course we’ve had the other team preparing for Leinster,” said Scarlets boss Wayne Pivac.