'Definitely frustrated' - Murphy on Bordeaux loss

Ulster head coach Richie Murphy was left frustrated after his side failed to take advantage of a strong first-half performance in Saturday's Investec Champions Cup defeat by Bordeaux.

The Irish province scored three tries to lead 19-14 at the break but were cut open in the second half as Bordeaux scored 26 unanswered points to secure a bonus-point victory.

"[I'm] definitely frustrated," said Murphy, who refused to comment on Yoram Moefana's yellow card for a high tackle on Nick Timoney.

"Looking at the first half first, I thought we put some good stuff together and put a very good team under a lot of pressure. There were a couple of breakdowns we missed and they take the ball off you if you're not accurate in the outside channels, obviously that was disappointing.

"The territory and possession that we had in the first half, we probably didn't make a good enough impression with what we had.

"The second half, their bench came on, the physicality of the game just went up and we couldn't survive it."

Ulster have now lost their past four games - Cardiff, Leinster, Toulouse and Bordeaux - but Murphy insists his side are "getting better".

"I think the first half shows that," added Murphy.

"But in order to be able to play against these types of teams, you need to be able to last 80 minutes and at the moment we're not quite able to do that."