{"id":17012,"date":"2024-05-05T08:41:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T08:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/leinster-20-17-northampton-saints-phil-dowson-laments-frustrating-first-half\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T08:41:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T08:41:20","slug":"leinster-20-17-northampton-saints-phil-dowson-laments-frustrating-first-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/leinster-20-17-northampton-saints-phil-dowson-laments-frustrating-first-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster 20-17 Northampton Saints: Phil Dowson laments ‘frustrating’ first half"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“We were not accurate enough in the first half and we gave a very good side a 17-point head start,” Dowson told BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n

“They shut us down at the set-piece efficiently and we couldn’t get the ball away from the breakdown quickly so our attack was stilted.<\/p>\n

“This is the first European semi we have been in for some time against a very good Leinster defence and we made some uncharacteristic errors. <\/p>\n

“Those things are going to happen but there were a lot of them, but we stuck at it and gave ourselves a chance.”<\/p>\n

Premiership leaders Northampton<\/a> have been praised for their attack this season, but Dowson says he was “frustrated” his side were unable to impose themselves.<\/p>\n

He added: “Our defence, our collisions and our effort were outstanding and that allowed us to still be in the game.<\/p>\n

“It speaks volumes of the group and it’s clear how invested the players are in each other.<\/p>\n

“In the second half, we slowly reeled them back in but we didn\u2019t have enough.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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“We were not accurate enough in the first half and we gave a very good side a 17-point head start,” Dowson told BBC Radio 5 Live. “They shut us down at the set-piece efficiently and we couldn’t get the ball away from the breakdown quickly so our attack was stilted. “This is the first European […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17014,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17012\/revisions\/17014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}