Leicester look forward

After three defeats in this year's Heineken Cup Leicester can only pull level with Toulouse, if results on the final day go their way fully, and the French have the advantage on the head-to-head between the two teams.

Listen to Marcelo Loffreda interview here

"It was not the result we were looking for," admitted Loffreda, after the 17-12 loss in Murrayfield.

"It will be difficult to lift the team for next week but you have to look forward and give the players motivation to face what is coming up.

"This week will get us better to face Leinster and we also have chances in the Premiership, so we will work very hard this week to lift the players.

"We lost by five points and I think we should have taken the opportunities to score when we had three penalties and did not kick at goal.

"Of course there were good intentions to kick to the corner, but when it is not a good day and things are not going right then you have to take the opportunities to score.

"It was not a good game for Leicester because we lost too much ball and when Edinburgh had the opportunities to score, they scored.

"We never said we needed a bonus point, we never put pressure on the players in those terms, we did not speak about the bonus point we just spoke about trying to play a good game.

"Of course we knew we had to win and maybe then think about the bonus point, but maybe the players had some pressure on that but we never tried to put that pressure on them.

"We knew Edinburgh were very tough and would have a lot of heart and good organisation. They are really hard at home and we knew that.

"We were not surprised by them because we knew they would be hard, we were surprised with our performance."