Injury-hit Ospreys no match for Ulster after tough night in Ireland

18.10.2024 - 21:07 walesonline.co.uk

An injury-hit Ospreys were no match for Ulster as they fell to a 36-12 defeat in Belfast.A much-changed team had Sam Parry and Keelan Giles to thank for their tries, but it was a testing night for a group of young and inexperienced players as the Ospreys fell to their fourth defeat in five games.Toby Booth had said in the week that he was without around 40 per cent of his playing group this week, with a number of the squad either injured or rested for the trip to Belfast.

As such, hooker Lewis Lloyd started on the blindside flank as the team heading to Ravenhill had something of a makeshift feel about it.

Unsurprisingly, there was a disjointed feel to much of the Ospreys' early actions out in Ireland, with it taking just four minutes for the home side to score.

Ulster had conceded the most scrum penalties in the league this season - with Ospreys sitting just behind them on that particular leaderboard.

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