{"id":189695,"date":"2025-12-13T12:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189695\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:33:08","slug":"im-not-feeling-xabi-alonsos-pressure-leo-cullen-welcomes-leinsters-great-expectations-after-taming-tigers-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189695\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m not feeling Xabi Alonso\u2019s pressure\u2019 \u2013 Leo Cullen welcomes Leinster\u2019s great expectations after taming Tigers on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leinster head coach Leo Cullen at the Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium in Leicester. Picture: Action Images via Reuters\/Andrew Boyers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MPIONS-LEI-LEN.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Leinster head coach Leo Cullen at the Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium in Leicester. Picture: Action Images via Reuters\/Andrew Boyers<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Back at Welford Road, where he spent two years as a player, Leo Cullen found himself in familiar territory answering familiar questions about his side\u2019s latest stuttering performance in their 23-15 win over Leicester Tigers last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Having come through a major dogfight that they trailed 15-6 at the break, Cullen was keen to accentuate the positives in terms of the character that his players showed in keeping Leicester scoreless after half-time at a notoriously difficult away venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster head coach Leo Cullen at the Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium in Leicester. Picture: Action Images via&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13503,42,11287,28577,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-189695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-leinster-rugby","11":"tag-leo-cullen","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}