{"id":787158,"date":"2026-09-30T06:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787158\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T06:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:38:14","slug":"glasgow-v-ulster-irish-province-without-trio-of-backs-for-united-rugby-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787158\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow v Ulster: Irish province without trio of backs for United Rugby Championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ulster will be without backs Michael Lowry, Aitzol Arenzana-King and Robert Baloucoune for Saturday’s United Rugby Championship game against Glasgow at Scotstoun (17:30 BST).<\/p>\n

Full-back Lowry and wing Baloucoune suffered concussions in the Irish province’s 34-29 defeat<\/a> by Edinburgh in their opening URC game of the 2026-27 campaign.<\/p>\n

Winger Arenzana-King picked up a knee injury during the game in Belfast, from which Ulster emerged with two bonus points.<\/p>\n

All three players started last weekend’s fixture, with Lowry captaining the side and scoring the first of Ulster’s four tries in a match which Richie Murphy’s side’s comeback fall short after they bounced back from a 34-5 deficit.<\/p>\n

Glasgow began their season with an impressive 26-20 victory<\/a> on the road at Munster.<\/p>\n

“Everyone was really disappointed with how we played at the weekend but I think the glimpse of 20 minutes of really good rugby was what we were expecting to bring,” Ulster head coach Richie Murphy told BBC Sport NI’s Mark Sidebottom.<\/p>\n

“Yesterday we started our review and the things that we got wrong. We know we are a lot better than that we produced at the weekend.<\/p>\n

“This week we have a really tough assignment away to Glasgow but it’s really important that we turn the page here and try and right some of the wrongs that were in that game.<\/p>\n

“Starting with getting our breakdown right, getting our defensive line coming forward and making sure we’re connected. You’ve got to be at your best to get anything over there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster will be without backs Michael Lowry, Aitzol Arenzana-King and Robert Baloucoune for Saturday’s United Rugby Championship game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}