Johann van Graan warns Munster players not to look to Leinster

Johann van Graan has put his Munster players on alert that a Guinness PRO14 semi-final with Leinster in two weeks is no foregone conclusion.

With the bookmakers making his side odds-on favourites to reach the last four for the second season in a row by beating Edinburgh at Thomond Park this Saturday in their PRO14 semi-final qualifier, head coach van Graan has reminded his players of the threat posed this weekend by one of the league’s form sides of 2018.

Under Richard Cockerill’s charge for the first time this season Edinburgh have become the dark horses of the competition, winning eight of their last nine games to pip Ulster for third place in Conference B and set up Saturday’s quarter-final in Limerick.