Leo Cullen expressed satisfaction in his Leinster side taking care of "tricky" Champions Cup business against Lyon at the RDS this afternoon.
Leinster's 42-14 victory should have been much more comfortable than it was, but they only led by seven points at the half-time interval against under-strength Top 14 opposition.
However two tries from Dave Kearney and a man of the match display by back row Max Deegan helped push the Blues to their 15th successive victory of the season, and their fifth in Europe.
And the six-try success brought another bonus point victory that means a win in Treviso next weekend will secure top seeding for the knock-out stages, which has been Cullen's ambition from the start of the year.
"It was a tricky game," he said. "Lyon had a man in the bin (late in the first half) and that is the period is where we struggled most, starting losing a few contacts.
"They started to get a rumble on, we gave away a few penalties - eventually they get in (for a try).
"We looked a little bit edgy in the dressing room at half-time. At the start of the second half I thought the players applied themselves well, started putting more pressure on Lyon, a bit more accurate in what we were doing. Lyon gave away a lot of penalties at that stage.
"There were a lot of stoppages in the game and we never got any real rhythm.
"I thought the bench were generally pretty good as well, made good impact. Scored six, it could have potentially been more.
"But it is what we wanted out of the game, a win bonus-point and on we go."
Leinster will welcome back James Ryan next weekend and look to have emerged unscathed from this encounter.
Cullen pointed to the preparations focusing on finding the required cohesion between frontliners who had been off duty for the second part of the festive period.
"It was a very long week last week," said the head coach. "We had a number of players who had been off for a few weeks, trying to get them back into the flow of things. Overall we are pretty pleased.
"Forcing things a little bit and getting too complicated (in what we were doing) - we kicked the ball away cheaply when Lyon were down to 14 players.
"They played keep ball for a while. They are a big physical team, very heavy and once they got that rumble on they were hard to stop.
"We weathered the storm and got the job done eventually".
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