Munster coach Rob Penney says he doesn’t expect Conor Murray to play next week’s Heineken Cup return match in Perpignan.

The scrumhalf was replaced in this afternoon's win over the French outfit in Thomond Park which Munster won 36-8.

Murray seemed to suffer a knee injury, and was taken off on the 18th minute and replaced by Cathal Sheridan.

Meanwhile, the Munster coach expects Ian Keatley to be fit enough to go back into next week’s starting 15, he was taken off just shy of the 50-minute mark.

Penney says “Conor is the main worry, I don’t know how bad his injury is at the minute, he feels a lot better now than he was when he came off, but I expect he won’t be around next week.”

“Ian Keatley has a corked thigh, hopefully he will be able to bounce back from that but we will just have to wait and see as the week unfolds.”

On the game itself this afternoon, Penny was happy with the resolve his team showed to go into the half time break 22-0 up and despite conceding a late try, he was happy with how Munster finished.

“22 zip up, we were trucking along well, we were doing everything that we had planned for and we just asked the lads to dig a bit deeper into the well in the next 20 minutes and they did that.” Penny said.

He added, “I thought we finished nicely over the top of them in the last quarter hour where we should have had a few more tries but we didn’t finish accurately enough.”

With two losses to their name now in the pool stages, qualification hopes to the quarter finals have gone down the drain for Perpignan, but they will know if they beat Munster in France next week, the pool would be thrown wide open.

Penny says he expects them to give a little more passion to the game and knows how important any win will be to their hopes of back to back French scalps.

“It’s a massive challenge going down there, the passion they have for the game down there is something we are used to here where it’s at our backs but next week it will be in our faces and that will be a big challenge for us to be able to adjust to,” Penny said.

“We need to not get caught up on the hype of the opposition side and maybe try and use that for our own purposes.

“We need to make sure we are disciplined, that’s going to be a key element heading into next week because referee’s can be influenced by the passion of the home support and by the side lines.”