Gloucester Fly Half Danny Cipriani Set To Return Against Munster Conestoga College [uaRI0d0t0DS]

Gloucester fly-half Danny Cipriani set to return against Munster. Danny Cipriani will return from injury for Gloucester's crunch Heineken Champions Cup clash against Munster at Kingsholm on Friday.

Gloucester must win to keep alive hopes of barry bannan reaching the quarter-finals from a fiercely-competitive Pool Two that also features Gallagher Premiership leaders Exeter and French champions Castres.

The west country club currently prop up the group, but they are only four points behind leaders Munster.

England international fly-half rcidive Cipriani has not played since suffering a chest injury during Gloucester's Champions Cup home defeat against Exeter four weeks ago.

And he has been missed, with Gloucester conceding a total of 64 points in losing their last two league games to Sale and Leicester following a narrow away victory over bottom club Newcastle.

Prolific try-scoring wing Ollie Thorley is also back, while lock Franco Mostert switches to blindside flanker and Ed Slater partners Gerbrandt Grobler in the second row.

Reflecting on recent results, Gloucester head coach Johan Ackermann said: "Having those losses were disappointing and not good for us.

"But my message to the players was that history can't be changed and we can only control what is in front of us.

"We have learnt lessons from the past two weeks and implemented them into our training to try and get better.

"But we've not been sulking about westjet flight cancellations it. Friday's challenge is massive, and if you go into it with a negative mindset, it's not going to help."