Stuart Lancaster watched on with pride as England completed the year unbeaten but he is focused on helping to end the Anglo-French monopoly of the Champions Cup when Leinster travel to Northampton Saints on Friday evening. Loic Remy Jersey UK .Lancaster -- the former England boss -- took up his Leinster position as senior coach in September; a post focused on attack and defence and is more hands-on than the one he had with the national side. He is enjoying life in Dublin and offering his coaching thoughts to a team headed up by Leo Cullen.Friday nights match at Franklins Gardens will be the first time he has coached back in England since he left the national team post in the wake of the 2015 World Cup and he is looking forward to catching up with familiar faces having coached a host of the Saints squad in his former roles with the Rugby Football Union.But that spell is consigned to a previous life and Lancaster is concentrating on how to unpick the Saints defence and ensure Leinster, who are top of Pool 4, progress to the knockouts.?The English teams have a really tough 12 teams and in the PRO12 the top end teams that we play against -- theres the Ospreys, the Scarlets beat us the other day -- and across the board the top end teams in the PRO12 are well-equipped to go head-to-head with the English and French teams, Lancaster said.Speaking to coaches from the other teams and understanding the pride that Ulster, Munster and Glasgow have, there was a real sense of disappointment [at last years Champions Cup performance across the PRO12].The European Cup is a massive motivator for the PRO12 teams. Glasgow beat Leicester in the first match this season and that set the marker to show the level of competition in the PRO12 is right up there. Having coached in it now I can see why any game is competitive.The Saints will be buoyed by their returning England contingent and Lancaster has kept an eye on their fortunes over the past year. He is not surprised by their success and says Eddie Jones deserves the credit for getting the best out of a very experienced team.And when asked if Lancaster felt an element of pride at Englands unbeaten year, he said: Yeah, obviously. We finished the World Cup in hugely disappointing fashion, but I sat down with Eddie not long after I lost the role and Eddie came in.I said to him, I think theres a good squad here, a good group of players. Hes brought his own personality and style to the team, which theyve benefited from. You are pleased that the hard work has paid off.Lancaster was linked with a number of posts before taking up the Leinster job and continues to be mentioned when vacancies arise. Recently he was suggested as a possible successor to Pat Lam at Connacht but he is focused solely on his Leinster contract, which runs to the end of the season.Im certainly having to prove myself to players here [at Leinster], Lancaster said. These players are top end players who have been coached by some very good coaches. Thats what drives me more than anything else.I dont miss certain parts of the [head coach] job and I do enjoy being back coaching again. Well see. Im pretty open-minded about the future. Its been a great move to come back into a top-end European club with great players. But Ive learned now not to plan too far ahead. Bertrand Traore Chelsea Jersey UK . 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Moving them around was more of a problem.The Reds piled up 11 hits and drew five walks, but the St. Louis Cardinals turned four double plays and made the most of a defensive breakdown by Cincinnati to pull out a 5-2 victory Sunday.Randal Grichuk and Kolten Wong homered, Carlos Martinez carried a shutout into the seventh inning and St. Louis snapped a three-game losing streak.Yadier Molina had two of the Cardinals five hits as they avoided being swept in Cincinnati for the first time since July 2012.St. Louis began the day with a one-game lead over the Mets for the final NL playoff spot. New York was set to host Washington later.Martinez (13-7) allowed three hits over six scoreless innings before the Reds reached him for three hits and two runs to knock him out of the game three batters into the seventh. He walked five and struck out six while improving to 8-1 in 13 road starts this season.Cincinnati went on to load the bases with one out against reliever Zack Duke before Scott Schebler flied out. Left fielder Brandon Moss threw out Tyler Holt at the plate -- the third of four Cardinals double plays, tying their season high.Reds manager Bryan Price had no problem with the speedy Holt trying to score.Offensively, were down by three runs and you think youre going to be conservative, but you still have to score runs, Price said. Moss makes a nice play. We had to take a chance with two outs.Seung Hwan Oh allowed a leadoff single in the ninth before getting three outs for his 15th save.Tim Adleman (2-3) gave up both Cardinals homers while matching his career high with six strikeouts in his first career appearance against St. Louis. He allowed four hits and three runs with a walk in five innings.Outside of a few pitches, I did a pretty good job of minimizing damage, Adleman said. It was better today. I wasnt in a lot of jams today. The first (home run) in the second inning, the pitch got too much of the plate. Maybe in another park, it doesnt go out. I dont know. The second one to Wong was a curve over the plate. You have to tip your hat. He did what he was supposed to with it.Price, using Septtember as a tryout camp for the last-place Reds, pulled Adleman after 77 pitches. Diego Costa Jersey UK. Wandy Peralta made his major league debut with a hitless seventh.If this was August instead of September, I wouldnt have taken Adleman out, but I had four or five guys that needed to pitch, Price said. (Adleman had) done enough to keep us in the game.Grichuk followed Stephen Piscottys double with his 21st homer this season and second of the series, giving St. Louis a 2-0 lead in the second inning. Grichuk also homered on Friday.Wong made it 3-0 by leading off the fifth with his fourth homer this year and second on the road trip. He also connected Monday in Milwaukee.First baseman Joey Vottos error and pitcher Jumbo Diazs error and wild pitch helped St. Louis add two unearned runs in the sixth for a 5-0 lead.HAPPY BIRTHDAYReds All-Star left fielder Adam Duvall was rested on his 28th birthday. He had a pinch-hit single in the ninth.CLOCKWORKFireworks were set off every hour on the hour outside the ballpark as crowds gathered for the citys annual pre-Labor Day Riverfest fireworks show. The 40-year-old event has been known to draw crowds of up to 500,000 people to the banks of the Ohio River. World War II-era warplanes also buzzed the ballpark before and during the game.TOP DOWNReds pitching limited the Cardinals first four batters -- Matt Carpenter, Jedd Gyorko, Moss and Piscotty -- to a combined 5 for 43 with one RBI and six walks in the series.TRAINERS ROOMCardinals: Ex-Reds catcher Brayan Pena, limited to four games this season by left knee inflammation, was activated from the 60-day disabled list before the game.Reds: CF Billy Hamilton, leading the majors in stolen bases, exited in the third after straining his left oblique while taking a strike.UP NEXTMets RF Jay Bruce, traded by the Reds to New York on Aug. 1, returns to Cincinnati for the first time in the opener of a three-game series Monday. RHP Robert Stephenson (2-0) attempts to become the first Reds pitcher since Wayne Simpson in 1970 to win his first three career starts. 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