{"id":30524,"date":"2025-06-01T18:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T18:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/united-rugby-championship-munster-fought-to-bitter-end-in-sharks-loss-says-skipper-tadhg-beirne\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T18:06:22","slug":"united-rugby-championship-munster-fought-to-bitter-end-in-sharks-loss-says-skipper-tadhg-beirne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/united-rugby-championship-munster-fought-to-bitter-end-in-sharks-loss-says-skipper-tadhg-beirne\/","title":{"rendered":"United Rugby Championship: Munster fought to &#8216;bitter end&#8217; in Sharks loss says skipper Tadhg Beirne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Munster captain Tadhg Beirne said &#8220;there was nothing more&#8221; he could ask of his team-mates after their United Rugby Championship quarter-final loss to Sharks was decided by a place-kick competition.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Irish side led 21-10 in the second half but, after the game in Durban finished 24-24 and neither side scored during extra time, the match went into a penalty kick shootout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sharks were a perfect six-from-six in their shots at goal, while Rory Scannell was the only one wayward off the tee for Munster. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re riddled with internationals, they know what they&#8217;re doing,&#8221; said Beirne of the Sharks, who will now face South African rivals Bulls in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We knew they were going to keep coming at us, we knew they would be a tough battle, and we fought to the bitter end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx2xg423055o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Munster captain Tadhg Beirne said &#8220;there was nothing more&#8221; he could ask of his team-mates after their United Rugby Championship quarter-final loss to Sharks was decided by a place-kick competition. The Irish side led 21-10 in the second half but, after the game in Durban finished 24-24 and neither side scored during extra time, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30525,"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\/30524"}],"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=30524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30526,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30524\/revisions\/30526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}