Preview this weekend's Guinness PRO14 game verses Connacht...
What: Guinness PRO14 Round 6
When: Friday 5th October 2018, kick off 7.35pm
Where: Kingspan Stadium, Belfast
Watch: Live on Eir Sport 1 & Premier Sports 1
Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU, 38th competition game)
Tickets: Are still available online and on the gate
An action-packed Friday night schedule of Guinness PRO14 rugby will see Connacht travel to Kingspan Stadium to face Ulster in search of their first victory in Belfast since November 1960.
Despite a promising start to the season, which included three wins and a draw, Ulster were subjected to their biggest ever defeat in Munster last weekend. Dan McFarland’s troops will be desperate to get back to winning ways against a Connacht side that pushed Guinness PRO14 champions Leinster all the way in Round 5. A high penalty count cost them dearly, though, and their record away from home in inter-pro games does not inspire confidence, with just one win away from Galway in the Championship since April 2017.
HEAD TO HEAD
Played 30, Ulster won 24, Connacht won 5 with 1 game drawn.
DID YOU KNOW?
- Ulster Rugby suffered their biggest ever defeat in Munster last weekend but at Kingspan Stadium their only loss since last October was by the narrowest of margins to Edinburgh in February.
- Connacht’s three most recent victories in the Guinness PRO14 have all been since the end of April, and all at home in Galway.
- Connacht have won just once away from home in the Championship since April 2017: 22-19 in Treviso in February 2018.
- Connacht have only once won away from home against a fellow Irish province in the last sixteen years, 18-12 at Munster in November 2015.
- The last five matches between the two sides have all been won by the home side on the day whilst Connacht have not been victorious in Belfast since November 1960.