Alex Sanderson admitted Sale Sharks had bucked a trend by beating Ospreys despite a hefty penalty count going against his team.
Sale, who scored all their points in the first 25 minutes, conceded 18 penalties to the Ospreys’ four but still claimed a Heineken Champions Cup victory in Swansea despite lock Lood De Jager and flanker Ben Curry being sin-binned.
‘I am very happy with the outcome,’ said Sanderson, Sale’s rugby director. ‘I thought there were things we could have done better in terms of our performance — the penalty count, playing with 14 men for nearly 20 minutes.