ULSTER head coach Dan McFarland was dejected by this semi-final defeat and fears his squad will take time to recover from conceding their 17-6 lead.
“We demonstrated in the first half, when we were able to execute, that we were the better team,” he said.
McFarland said Ulster “dropped off ” after the interval while captain Iain Henderson said the defeat would be a “bitter pill” to swallow.
Man-of-the-match George Ford said Leicester had been too passive in the first half.
“It was definitely the physicality and the collision that let us own,” Ford said. “We were pretty passive. The pleasing t...