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Published 19:51 6 Oct 2018 BST
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Munster head coach Johann van Graan would have told his men the next score would be their's and that they would be right back in the contest.
The next score should have been but Whitehouse made a big call and the game turned on its' head. There was some contention, in the stands, that the call may have been for offside but 'deliberate knock-on' was the decision.
The watching Munster fans, and many neutrals, could not believe the call:
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Munster would have been forgiven for thinking it was not going to be their night but on they pressed. Carbery kicked a 46-metre penalty and, after relentless scrum pressure and a close-call out wide for Andrew Conway, scrum-half Alby Mathewson jinked over for a converted try.
Leinster were awarded a penalty within seconds of that re-start and Byrne, in his final act of a solid personal performance, kicked a penalty to make it 30-22.
That was as close as Munster got as Leinster hogged the ball and saw out yet another victory.
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