The ducals play a good first half, but in the second half they are overwhelmed by the Scots
URC: Beautiful zebras at half, Glasgow Warriors win 9-26
URC’s Saturday opens with Zebre-Glasgow Warriors: the Scots win 9-40 in Parma. Fabio Roselli’s team plays a good first half, keeps possession of the ball but does not materialize the amount of play produced.
The Scots started slowly but took advantage of the opportunities that were created and that the dukes granted. The greater experience and cynicism of Franco Smith’s team allows the Warriors to win by returning to Scotland with the offensive bonus point. The brace from Gregor Hiddleston and Kyle Steyn and the final scores from Jamie Dobie and George Horne allow the Scots to gain five points and momentarily take the lead in the URC standings.
The Zebre remain in last place with 15 points awaiting the Dragons’ match (also on 15 points) with Connacht. Both teams will return to action in two weeks: the Ducals will visit Edinburgh while the Warriors will travel to South Africa against the Bulls.
Read here: Richard Hodges, Zebre defense coach, towards the national team
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The Zebre started well, with the ball in attack and good offensive schemes. In the 7th minute Thomas Dominguez brings home the first three points of the day with a precise free kick. In the 12th minute the home team has the chance to extend the gap with the Warriors, but Jacopo Trulla’s shot is wide.
The first 20 minutes of the match are totally in Zebre’s favor and the 3-0 is a result that is close to Fabio Roselli’s boys. One of the Ducali’s strong points is the closed scrum where Glasgow suffers from the push of Hasa, Manfredi and Fischetti. In the 26th minute Geronimo Prisciantelli hits the posts from a free kick, 6-0.
The Warriors get back on track in the 32nd minute. After taking possession of the Zebre’s 22, the Warriors build a drive from touchline which ends its run from the 5m line thanks to Gregor Hiddleston. 6-7 after Ross Thompson’s conversion.
The last 10 minutes of the first half coincide with the Scots’ return to the game and a simultaneous decline in attention from the Zebre. In the 41st minute the guests double their lead with a photocopy try from Gregor Hiddleston: touch, advancing drive and 6-14 with which we go to half-time.
The Zebre open the second half with a free kick by Thomas Dominguez in the 44th minute, 9-14. In the 51st minute the Warriors scored for the third time: kick from the box by Jamie Dobie, the ball bounced to the ground without anyone catching it. Henco Venter collects the oval and serves Kyle Steyn who accelerates, breaks two Zebre tackles and scores. 9-21.
Halfway through the second half the Zebre wasted an opportunity to score the first try of their match, a few minutes later Glasgow also threw away the opportunity to score for the fourth time, which would have been worth the offensive bonus point. The fourth score for the Warriors arrives in the 67th minute with Kyle Steyn who completes a great ball-in-hand move by the Scots who move the ball wide from touchline until they find the winger in jersey 14. 9-26.
In the 75th minute Glasgow scored their fifth try with Jamie Dobie. The Zebre defense no longer rises as before, the tension drops for a match that slips away and the Scots take advantage of this to mark again with the scrum half who plays as a winger in the second half of the match.
In the 79th minute, George Horne’s sixth try against the Zebre who had already suffered a heavy deficit. After Ross Thompson’s conversion the score is 9-40, the score with which the “Lanfranchi” match ends.
Francesco Giannelli Savastano
Zebre-Glasgow Warriors scoreboard
Zebras Parma: 15 Lorenzo Pani, 14 Jacopo Trulla, 13 Franco Smith Jr, 12 Enrico Lucchin, 11 Scott Gregory, 10 Geronimo Prisciantelli (C), 9 Thomas Dominguez, 1 Danilo Fischetti, 2 Marco Manfredi, 3 Muhamed Hasa, 4 Leonard Krumov, 5 Dylan De Leeuw, 6 Guido Volpi, 7 Iacopo Bianchi, 8 Giacomo Ferrari
Available: 16 Giampietro Ribaldi, 17 Samuele Taddei, 18 Juan Pitinari, 19 Matteo Canali, 20 David Sisi, 21 Ratko Jelic, 22 Fetuli Paea, 23 Taina Fox-Matamua
Destinations:
Transformations:
Free kicks: Dominguez (7′, 44′), Prisciantelli (26′)
Glasgow Warriors: 15 Josh McKay, 14 Kyle Steyn (C), 13 Stafford McDowall, 12 Sione Tuipulotu, 11 Kyle Rowe, 10 Ross Thompson, 9 Jamie Dobie, 1 Allan Dell, 2 Gregor Hiddleston, 3 Lucio Sordoni, 4 Sintu Manjezi, 5 Max Williamson, 6 Ally Miller, 7 Thomas Gordon, 8 Henco Venter
Available: 16 Grant Stewart, 17 Nathan McBeth, 18 Zander Fagerson, 19 Scott Cummings, 20 Euan Ferrie, 21 Gregor Brown, 22 George Horne, 23 Tom Jordan
Goals: Hiddleston (32′, 41′), Steyn (51′, 67′), Dobie (75′), Horne (79′)
Conversions: Thompson (33′, 42′, 52′, 76′, 80′)
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