Johann Muller’s facial expressions mapped the course of a night they’ll never forget in Ravenhill.<\/p>\n
The steel that met Billy Vunipola’s challenge twice in the ferocious opening exchanges was replaced by a mixture of pleading, shock and dread when Jerome Garces showed Jared Payne a fifth-minute red card after his clumsy challenge on Alex Goode.<\/p>\n
After that, there was a grim determination from the soon-to-retire Springbok before he fought back tears as he was called from battle with 11 minutes left.<\/p>\n
In between, there were the moments reserved only for his team-mates as the captain exhorted every last drop of energy from them in what was ultimately a heroic defeat as Ulster exited the Heineken Cup in the quarter-finals for the third time in four years………. for the full story follow this link http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport\/rugby\/heineken-cup\/muller-if-we-lost-fairly-id-take-it-to-lose-like-this-really-hurts-30161152.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Johann Muller’s facial expressions mapped the course of a night they’ll never forget in Ravenhill. The steel that met Billy Vunipola’s challenge twice in the ferocious opening exchanges was replaced by a mixture of pleading, shock and dread when Jerome Garces showed Jared Payne a fifth-minute red card after his clumsy challenge on Alex Goode. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7977,5967,5401],"class_list":["post-65924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-independent","tag-irish","tag-muller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65927,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65924\/revisions\/65927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}