Leo Cullen is confident his Leinster outfit have the character needed to go to South Africa and beat the Bulls.
The eight-time champions beat Ulster 43-20 in the quarter-final of the URC at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday afternoon and will make their way to Pretoria for next Saturday's game at Loftus Versfeld.
Finishing third in the table means Leinster, beaten Champions Cup finalists two weeks ago, must go on the road for their first URC play-off game since beating Glasgow in the 2019 final at Celtic Park.
"There's plenty of character in the group, that's for certain," said Cullen.
"You don't get into these knockout games by accident, so everyone is going full blooded at these games, so to still be going and have a sixth play-off game [this season, including Champions Cup] to look forward to is no easy feat.
"There's the players that are on the field, the players that have contributed to get us to this point... you have to juggle the resources across the season to still be able to fire at this point of the season.
"There's lots of different dynamics, that's the beauty of the competition.
"How you navigate your way through... we'd love to have a home semi-final, but this is the challenge and the next adventure that we have which is a trip to South Africa."
Leinster scored two tries to take a 17-0 lead in at half-time, while four more followed after the break to set up a clash with Jake White's side, who earlier beat Benetton 30-23.
Cullen added: "I thought Ulster threw a lot into the game, a very spirited performance and they're a team with a new coach, John Fogarty [Ireland scrum coach] is working with them... a few tricks around the scrum he has, knows our lads well.
"They fill the front-line, they're committed in the tackle and it was always going to take a bit of time in terms of trying to wear them down.
"They kick a lot from number 9, they try and pin you in your end and if you're not good in terms of your own aerial receipts they can put you under pressure.
"Both teams had chances at the beginning of the game, we'd a chance we didn't convert. They'd one that got held up.
"With both teams having chances, Robbie [Henshaw] scores that try, we kick a penalty and James [Lowe] scores a good team try, we put them through a lot of phases, and that's where you get the benefit of some of the carrying game.
"You go in 17-0 at half time, it's not that the game is done but it gives you some breathing space.
"So, second half is probably tit for tat and we get a couple of tries late on which give a bit of gloss on the game."
Meanwhile, Ulster head coach Richie Murphy was left to rue a lengthy injury list and a decision that went against his side at the end of the first half.
Makeshift second row Cormac Izuchukwu departed in the 19th minute and failed his head injury assessment, while Murphy felt his team should have been awarded a penalty try at the end of the first half, which, if given, would have made it a ten-point game.
"Obviously losing Cormac early was a loss," said Murphy
"We're missing four senior locks at that stage. It makes it a difficult place to be but our lads stuck in the fight really well.
"Ah, look, the first driving maul is going over the line, it’s going to be a try.
"[The referee] penalises them so I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be a penalty try but it is what it is. You’ve got to move on. We had another opportunity and unfortunately, we didn’t get it.
"On a different day a couple of things could have gone our way early on and we could have put more pressure on them but they were very good and very clinical when they got in our 22.
"Territory in the first half, we kind of controlled that well, created a couple of really good one-on-ones with Jacob [Stockdale against] Ross [Byrne] and Jamison [Gibson-Park].
"A couple of weeks ago [in the regular season victory over Leinster] we were catching them. We couldn’t quite get them and that’s just the game, isn’t it.
"If we went out on the pitch and tried to play exactly like Leinster did we would have been beaten off the park.
"I thought tactically we went into the game with a good idea, went away from it a little bit but managed to veer back towards it but again I thought we showed great character, kept fighting right to the end, which was satisfying from my point of view."
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