Munster looked to have broken the deadlock at Thomond Park after 27 minutes. The only ones that disagreed were the referee and the TMO.
Munster and Racing went at it, hammer and everything, in the first half of the Champions Cup pool clash in Limerick.
Racing had the chance to hit the front but Maxime Machenaud missed his penalty attempt. Munster eventually woke up and turned up the pressure.
After Niall Scannell and Tommy O’Donnell went close, Conor Murray’s sniping dive over a tryline ruck looked to have got Munster off the mark.
Tyler Bleyendaal headed to the 22 to prepare for hi conversion effort but referee Marius Mitrea was not convinced.
He went to the video replays and Allan Falzone, after far too many replays, said ‘No try’.
Bizarrely, the decision of a Munster scrum meant Falzone did not believe Murray knocked on. It was one of those compromises that ended up pleasing no-one.
Would've awarded that @ConorMurray_9 try. Ball knocked out of Murray's hand by Racing player and he pounced on it. #MUNvR92 @ChampionsCup
— Tommy English (@T0mmyEnglish) January 21, 2017
Awful decision. Should have been a try for Munster.
— Ciarán Bohane (@BobTheCork) January 21, 2017
That's a try, Racing player knocks the ball backwards and Murray lands on it? Bad decision ref. #munster #MUNvR92
— Michael Kiernan (@mikier) January 21, 2017
Fortunately for Munster, Simon Zebo wriggled over before Machenaud knocked over a penalty to make it 7-3 at half-time.
