{"id":360338,"date":"2025-12-20T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360338\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:38:07","slug":"leinster-24-20-ulster-it-was-hard-to-recover-in-second-half-richie-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360338\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster 24-20 Ulster: It was hard to recover in second half – Richie Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ulster head coach Richie Murphy says there is no time for “wallowing” after losing 24-20 to Leinster in the United Rugby Championship. <\/p>\n

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

However, Leinster, aided by a strong bench, rallied as Joshua Kenny and Ireland internationals James Lowe and Dan Sheehan crossed to give the hosts a comeback win.<\/a><\/p>\n

“It was a difficult turnaround in the second half, we never really got our game going,” Murphy told Premier Sports.<\/p>\n

“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’s very hard to try and recover.”<\/p>\n

It is a second defeat in a row for Ulster, who have had a superb start to the season. <\/p>\n

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’s young side. <\/p>\n

However, they still remain fourth in the table, one place ahead of Leinster, and take on Connacht in Galway after Christmas. <\/p>\n

“We can’t spend too much time wallowing over this. We have to learn from it and move on,” Murphy added.<\/p>\n

“We did talk about that last week and now it’s a second defeat on the bounce. That’s something we want to try and change pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

“We’ll park this, prepare for Connacht and move on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster head coach Richie Murphy says there is no time for “wallowing” after losing 24-20 to Leinster in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-360338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}