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"He missed one or two (against Castres), two weeks ago. I thought he was excellent with his goal-kicking tonight. Obviously, for him personally, playing against his former team at a sold-out Thomond Park was a big moment. Very happy that he kicked it over and you need a quality goal kicker to beat the best and I thought he did that excellent tonight."Carbery was composed and played to Munster's game-plan all evening. When it came time to punish some Leinster intransigence at the breakdown or in the loose, the Munster 10 teed one up and sent it between the sticks. Leinster attempted to rattle him too. Jack Conan and James Ryan took bullocking runs right at him and he did his best to absorb one Tadhg Furlong carry before bouncing up and resuming his place in the defensive line. He was hurt in one ruck as Garry Ringrose and a Leinster teammate cleared him out with force, but he shook it off after a few whirling seconds and got back in line. It wasn't a flawless performance - he missed four tackles and he held onto the ball a beat too long in a couple of attacks - but it was an outing he, his teammates and his coaches will have been pleased with. One of his final acts was to knock over his fifth consecutive kick of the night when Leinster went off their feet at the breakdown. https://twitter.com/eirSport/status/1079088281072082944 14 points scored and an all-round performance to put his team in a strong position to win the match. He rose above the niggle, too, and merited the standing ovation from several thousand Munster supporters inside the crowd. Sexton had been replaced 10 minutes beforehand so Leinster could give their next young outhalf hopeful Ciaran Frawley a taste of this white-hot rivalry. The World Player of the Year had allowed Munster under his skin and had some supporters questioning if the extra task of captaincy is doing him, or his team, any favours. This is why the move to Munster was made - for Carbery to come into his own as an outhalf and for Ireland, as a result, to have a serious a quality operator on hand. Making the switch from European and Guinness PRO14 champions Leinster, down the N7 to Munster, would not have been easy. On Saturday, Joey Carbery must have felt somewhat justified as the risk was paid back, in small part, with a satisfying reward. We hope Carbery continues to grow as Munster's 10 and that Sexton plays imperiously on for another few years yet. This is just starting to heat up.
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