Rassie Erasmus: ‘It’s all about pressure. Big moments turn play-off rugby’

Erasmus is likely to stick with his midfield pairing of Rory Scannell and the departing Francis Saili for Saturday’s final.

As both a player and a coach Rassie Erasmus has won some games and lost others when the season has reached the knockout rounds and the Munster boss is convinced the winning of them is based on mentality as much as tactics and technique, writes Simon Lewis.

It was what the South African learned most about his young players from their Champions Cup semi-final defeat to Saracens on April 22 and the director of rugby was delighted they took the lessons on board smartly enough to apply them in last Saturday’s Guinness PRO12 last-four win over Ospreys.