Relaxed Van Graan gets back to basics

Johann van Graan gave no indication about the quality of his Sunday night’s sleep but given the Munster boss watched a playback of Saracens’ seven-try demolition of Glasgow Warriors before bedtime, a fit of the night terrors would have been understandable.

No sooner had van Graan given thanks for his side’s remarkable rabbit-from-the-hat routine to defeat quarter-final rivals Edinburgh in Murrayfield on Saturday, than Saracens had set up a re-run of their 2008 and 2017 European last-four meetings with a 56-27 hammering of the Scots in north London.