{"id":489440,"date":"2025-10-10T22:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489440\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:29:13","slug":"four-yellow-cards-for-edinburgh-in-narrowest-of-defeats-to-munster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489440\/","title":{"rendered":"Four yellow cards for Edinburgh in narrowest of defeats to Munster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>mens<\/p>\n<p>united-rugby-championship<\/p>\n<p>    Cork , Ireland &#8211; 10 October 2025; Dan Kelly of Munster celebrates during the United Rugby Championship match between Munster and Edinburgh at Virgin Media Park in Cork. (Photo By Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile via Getty Images) <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"expand\" src=\"https:\/\/eu-cdn.rugbypass.com\/images\/common-svg\/select-arrow.svg\" height=\"6\" width=\"11\"\/>      https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/united-rugby-championship-report\/    <\/p>\n<p>Fineen Wycherley scored a late try as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/munster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Munster<\/a> recorded a third-consecutive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/united-rugby-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Rugby Championship<\/a> win with a narrow 20-19 triumph over an ill-disciplined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/edinburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a> in Cork.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Smith sent the home side on their way when he latched on to Calvin Nash\u2019s long kick downfield after just two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>However, Edinburgh struck back just five minutes later when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/ewan-ashman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ewan Ashman<\/a> crossed over from close range.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>The Scottish side then moved into the lead with 16 minutes gone through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/ben-vellacott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Vellacott<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/glen-young\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glen Young<\/a> and D\u2019arcy Rae were both yellow-carded before prop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/michael-milne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Milne<\/a> finished off a lineout drive.<\/p>\n<p>Munster trailed 19-10 shortly after the interval as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/darcy-graham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darcy Graham<\/a> crossed over. Freddy Douglas received his side\u2019s third yellow of the night, and Milne doubled his personal tally with 58 minutes on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/magnus-bradbury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magnus Bradbury<\/a> then saw yellow, and the hosts made their numerical advantage count when Wycherley scored with eight minutes to go to secure a nervy bonus-point win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"mens united-rugby-championship Cork , Ireland &#8211; 10 October 2025; Dan Kelly of Munster celebrates during the United Rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-489440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115352238000492059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}