URC: Munster 20 Edinburgh 19
For the second week in succession Munster found a way to win a United Rugby Championship match that could easily have escaped their clutches. On the back of a few outstanding individual performances, with Tom Farrell, Fineen Wycherley and Mikey Milne standouts, they forged the narrowest of victories but one that was facilitated by their opponents rank ill-discipline.
Four Edinburgh players received yellow cards, and the visitors conceded 14 penalties and yet with the final play of the match, they reached the threshold of the Munster 22, only to make one final error. Relief was the overwhelming emotion but for the home side the knack of winning when below par is not to be sniffed at; they go to Croke Park next week, unbeaten.
Munster enjoyed an ideal start, after just 80 seconds, and it followed on from a hat-trick o
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