In Pics: Preparations For Saracens

Munster continued preparations for Saturday’s crucial Champions Cup clash away to Saracens with a squad training session at UL yesterday. See the action shots and get the pre-match thoughts of Head Coach Anthony Foley here.

European encounters between Munster and Saracens have always been keenly contested, tense affairs and – speaking with media after training yesterday – Foley eluded to nothing different between the sides this weekend.

"If we can play to our strengths and even go back to the game in Round 2 where it was on a knife edge for the vast majority of the game. It took their prop to get sin-binned to really turn the game so that is where the game is at and I can't remember any more than a score between the two sides any time we have met in Europe.

"Even back to the 1999-2000 season, they were down to kicks. That is the way they are and it is about being on the right side of that.

"The first game against Saracens was as good as Munster have played this season in terms of how we controlled the game and how we went about it and how we didn't flinch.

"Sometimes you can unfortunately get bored of what is working and try something else but we stayed on task and we ended up with a good result; something similar will needed for the weekend.

"If you are looking to improve and try and be better than you were last week you would like to think that next week you are going to be better but that hasn't been the case.

“It's about staying in the moment, being as accurate as you can be and trying to take the game away from them away from home.

"We have come unstuck on a number of occasions this year and we need to build a good mentality for this weekend and make sure we are ready for the contest it will be on Saturday."

See the action shots from training at UL yesterday by clicking here.

Saracens v Munster, European Champions Cup Round 5, Saturday January 17th at Allianz Park, London – KO 1pm.

This game will be televised on BT Sport.