Andy Friend: 'If we play our game, I think we can give them a good shake'

Friend's Connacht side face their provincial rivals Leinster in Galway in the first leg of their Heineken Champions Cup round of 16

19 February 2022; Connacht Head Coach Andy Friend before the United Rugby Championship match between Scarlets and Connacht at Parc y Scarlets in Llanelli, Wales. Photo by Chris Fairweather/Sportsfile

Slice and dice it any way you want but the odds just don’t look good for Connacht.

Andy Friend has faced Leinster ten times since he took over at the Sportsground. He has won once and had another victory cruelly denied in a four-point defeat. Both of those games were played at the RDS, incidentally.