L’AQUILA – Rugby L’Aquila conquers Messina with a clear 36 to 3 and flies to Serie A today, now unreachable at the top of group 4 of the Serie B championship, even by the chasing Us Roma which has a match to recover.
Great celebration and anticipation for the return to the city of the newly promoted players and the head coach Emanuele Lo Greco and of all the technical staff, of the fans who went to the away match, of the company led by the entrepreneur Mauro Scopano. In the following video, the match includes the celebrations.
MATCH REPORT
The match, however, has no history with L’Aquila who, except for the first and only kick placed by Messina between the posts, then risked little or nothing while scoring six times, already four in the first half, earning the bonus point
The first points arrive in the 2nd minute, a free kick from almost 40 meters for the home team with Longo taking charge of kicking between the posts, the trajectory is slightly short but it reaches its destination for 3-0.
L’Aquila responds immediately on the restart kick, Pietrolati he recovers the ball after the rebound and slips away from the local tackles reaching the goal, the conversion does not arrive. The guests continue to attack and score again in the 11th minute from a touchout, but the referee cancels having recognized a foul, and then in the 18th minute with Messina forced to cancel.
In the 20th minute Messina Rugby remains numerically inferior, the fly-half is yellow and ten minutes out, in this half the league leaders spread: first try by Suarez still unconverted for 3-10, then Petrolati scores with Davide Pietrinferni that transforms.
We return to numerical parity in the last ten minutes with the Abruzzo team still scoring Bucci, untransformed. The bonus point arrives, Messina tries to react with a touch in the attacking zone and then a scrum five meters away, but it doesn’t materialise. The first half ends at 3-22 and Spadaro gets a yellow.
In the second forty minutes Messina started out numerically inferior and even passed them unscathed given that in the first ten minutes neither team scored.
Then in the 13th minute of the second half, a five-metre goal for L’Aquila, who have always had progress in previous situations and also this time with Suarez who once his teammates had done the dirty work crushed the goal with Pietrinferni converting for 3-29.
Halfway through the second half, the sixth goal also arrives Niro who takes advantage of a situation in the open field with the Messina defense unable to recover, smashes between the posts and simple transformation for Pietrinferni who rounds 3-36.
In the final yellow card also for L’Aquila with Breglia which leaves his team with fourteen men for ten minutes, Messina tries to go into touch but loses possession. More opportunities but for L’Aquila in the final minutes which were however well foiled by the neroscudati, even the guest’s attempted drop which didn’t land. (from tempostretto.it)
Scoreboard
Messina Rugby: Dejean, Irrera, Kese, Quaranta, Ouedraogo, Longo 3, Mastronardo, Spadaro, Vinci, Alberto Mangano, Fracassi, Hasanoviq, Cafarelli, Rizzo, Maggio.
Available: Tornesi, Durante, Tripodi, Davide Mangano, Placanica, Russo, Radulescu.
Coach: Nicola Alibrandi. Assistant: Alessandro Miduri.
Rugby L’Aquila: Bucci 5, Massimo Sansone, Daniele Sansone, Antonelli, Marzi, Davide Pietrinferni 6, Petrolati 10, Suarez 10, Niro 5, Daniele, Andrea Pientrinferni, Bologna, Sacco, Mastrantonio, Breglia.
Available: Lepidi, Milani, Alfonsi, Galliano, Passadoro, Valdrappa, Caporale.
Coach: Emanuele Lo Greco.
Referee: Alessandro Angheloni from Reggio Calabria.
Goals: 0-6. Transformations: 0/0, 3/6. Set pieces: 1/1, 0/0.
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