{"id":5411,"date":"2025-12-20T10:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5411"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:51:13","slug":"leinster-24-20-ulster-it-was-hard-to-recover-in-second-half-richie-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5411","title":{"rendered":"Leinster 24-20 Ulster: It was hard to recover in second half &#8211; Richie Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ulster head coach Richie Murphy says there is no time for &#8220;wallowing&#8221; after losing 24-20 to Leinster in the United Rugby Championship. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two scores from Werner Kok and a Tom Stewart try helped Ulster to a 17-7 half-time lead at the Aviva Stadium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Leinster, aided by a strong bench, rallied as Joshua Kenny and Ireland internationals James Lowe and Dan Sheehan crossed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c80x99y4j1yo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">give the hosts a comeback win.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a difficult turnaround in the second half, we never really got our game going,&#8221; Murphy told Premier Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We probably went away from what we were doing in the first half and if you give a team like Leinster a little bit of field position, they can play on top of you and it&#8217;s very hard to try and recover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a second defeat in a row for Ulster, who have had a superb start to the season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A much-changed side let slip a 14-point lead to lose to Cardiff in the Challenge Cup, and Leinster inflicted a second league defeat of the season on Murphy&#8217;s young side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, they still remain fourth in the table, one place ahead of Leinster, and take on Connacht in Galway after Christmas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We can&#8217;t spend too much time wallowing over this. We have to learn from it and move on,&#8221; Murphy added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We did talk about that last week and now it&#8217;s a second defeat on the bounce. That&#8217;s something we want to try and change pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll park this, prepare for Connacht and move on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c78vky34yzro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ulster head coach Richie Murph&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}