Munster vs Ospreys

MUNSTER return to action when they host Ospreys in the United Rugby Championship.Graham Rowntree's men enjoyed something of a rejuvenation up to the S.

What are the odds? What has been said in the build-up? What are the teams?

A poor Ospreys outing against a merciless Munster resulted in a record 58-3 defeat for Toby Booth's men in their United Rugby Championship clash on Friday ...

Coombes spun around through contact for his third of the night, with Ospreys' lacklustre performance doing little to distract from talk of a potential player strike in Wales. Despite losing skipper Jack O'Donoghue to injury, Munster continued to dominate and a dummying Carbery darted over in the 36th minute. 8 Coombes swatted away a tackle to double his tally from close range. The hosts dominated a first half which saw each team have a player sin-binned, with Coombes, Malakai Fekitoa, Antoine Frisch and Joey Carbery all scoring tries to put Munster 27-3 up. A Morgan Morris turnover kept Munster scoreless until Carbery kicked them level in the 12th minute. The Ospreys were held tryless for the first time this season.

Munster showed no mercy as Gavin Coombes' hat-trick of tries inspired a thumping 58-3 win over an off-colour Ospreys in their United Rugby Championship ...

The latter cruised in behind the posts just six minutes later, having linked with replacement Diarmuid Barron. Despite losing skipper Jack O'Donoghue to injury, Munster continued to dominate and a dummying Carbery darted over in the 36th minute. The pair combined again in the 29th minute, Fekitoa's return pass - out of a double tackle - putting Frisch over to widen the margin to 17 points.

The big No.8 was in devastating form as Munster ran in nine tries with centres Antoine Frisch and Malakai Fekitoa laying the foundation with a brilliant ...

Carbery converted to lead 10-3 after 15 minutes. Munster crossed for their fifth inside a minute of the restart when scrum-half Paddy Patterson exchanged passes in the left corner with John Hodnett before racing in to score. Ospreys lost Bradley Davies to the bin in the build-up with the lock fortunate to escape with just a yellow card for a high tackle on prop Roman Salanoa. Ospreys got an early boost with a Stephen Myler penalty in front of the posts with Munster full-back Shane Daly binned for killing the ball after he nabbed Ospreys lock Huw Sutton who had countered after intercepting a Joey Carbery pass. The big No.8 was in devastating form as Munster ran in nine tries with centres Antoine Frisch and Malakai Fekitoa laying the foundation with a brilliant midfield display in front of a crowd of 14,082. Gavin Coombes sent out a timely reminder to Andy Farrell as he ran in a hat-trick as Munster put Ospreys to the sword with a superb display at Thomond Park.

The brilliant centre partnership of Antoine Frisch and Malakai Fekitoa laid the foundation for the win.

Pen: Carbery (1 from 1). Cons: Carbery (5 from 9). Carbery converted to lead 10-3 after 15 minutes.