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Champions Cup - Pool 1, Round 3 (Clermont, Munster, Sale, Saracens)
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 696046" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>But Munster didn't look pierced from everywhere. You watch some games, and the attacking team is busting holes everywhere and the other team looks like a perforated steaming carcass and yet they're lucky enough the first keeps botching everything with a new mistake each time. Munster pressured Clermont enough.</p><p></p><p>The two things I'd say though are Munster definitely didn't look creative when they did have the ball and it's not their game but since the fundamentals weren't there as consistently, they maybe should have solicited Zebo more or try to add more volume to their attack. </p><p>The other thing is they are tbf lucky it was Radoslavievic at 9 and not a warmed up Morgan Parra tonight, who's a no. 10 wearing 9 and who could've set a real tempo and along with Lopez would have conducted a smoother assault and shown more maturity and experience.</p><p>Rado was veryyy so so tonight, and he's isn't a fantastic player anyways...made a couple of faaat greasy mistakes.</p><p></p><p>I'd like to salute two attributes from Clermont tonight I wasn't sure they'd bring: not settling for a match of the home side's style and intensity, they actually made the effort to go wide and play their riskier jaunard style. Second thing is the defense: their defense was so aggressive, esp in the 2nd half, it was attacking really. THAT was impressive, bodies jumping forward like that, one after the other, boom boom boom, Munster with the ball but pushed back, cut at the root. And they held up well at the end, and what composure during that entire 5 last min sequence with the steal on the lineout ultimately as the cherry on the Saturday.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 696046, member: 57076"] But Munster didn't look pierced from everywhere. You watch some games, and the attacking team is busting holes everywhere and the other team looks like a perforated steaming carcass and yet they're lucky enough the first keeps botching everything with a new mistake each time. Munster pressured Clermont enough. The two things I'd say though are Munster definitely didn't look creative when they did have the ball and it's not their game but since the fundamentals weren't there as consistently, they maybe should have solicited Zebo more or try to add more volume to their attack. The other thing is they are tbf lucky it was Radoslavievic at 9 and not a warmed up Morgan Parra tonight, who's a no. 10 wearing 9 and who could've set a real tempo and along with Lopez would have conducted a smoother assault and shown more maturity and experience. Rado was veryyy so so tonight, and he's isn't a fantastic player anyways...made a couple of faaat greasy mistakes. I'd like to salute two attributes from Clermont tonight I wasn't sure they'd bring: not settling for a match of the home side's style and intensity, they actually made the effort to go wide and play their riskier jaunard style. Second thing is the defense: their defense was so aggressive, esp in the 2nd half, it was attacking really. THAT was impressive, bodies jumping forward like that, one after the other, boom boom boom, Munster with the ball but pushed back, cut at the root. And they held up well at the end, and what composure during that entire 5 last min sequence with the steal on the lineout ultimately as the cherry on the Saturday. [/QUOTE]
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