The magic moment of rItalian ugby it never ends. Overwhelming the Scots in Monigo Edinburgh (31-6), the Benetton Treviso has achieved a historic move to Union Rugby Championship play-offs, a tournament featuring the best teams from Ireland, Wales, South Africa and Scotland, together with our two franchises. In the last round of the regular season, the Venetians faced a sort of play-off: with this success, the eleventh out of 18 matches (one draw, 6 defeats) they closed the first part of the championship with 54 points and were promoted to the quarter finals scheduled for next weekend. To find out the opponent we will have to wait for the result of the Irish match between the provinces of Munster and Leinster, scheduled for this evening.
Five tries, a brace from Izekor
The boys of Marco Bortolami they prevailed after a harsh and somewhat confused first half, opened by a yellow card to Izekor, in which they went to Mendylaunched in counterattack by Smith, e Ratave who intercepted a golden oval. The guests responded with 2 free kicks from Healey. Having closed the first half at 12-6, Treviso spread in the second half: scoring Albornoz And twice Izekor5 tries in total which also gave us the offensive bonus point.
Benetton Treviso-Edinburgh 31-6 (12-6)
Markers: 6′ try Mendy, 24′ and 27′ cp Healy, 33′ try Ratave tr. Smith; 59′ goal Albornoz tr. Smith, 62′ Izekor goal tr. Smith, 66′ Izekor goal.
Benetton Rugby: 15 Rhyno Smith, 14 Ignacio Mendy, 13 Tommaso Menoncello, 12 Ignacio Brex (70? Marco Zanon), 11 Onisi Ratave (74? Jacob Umaga), 10 Tomas Albornoz, 9 Andy Uren (62? Alessandro Garbisi), 8 Toa Halafihi (52? Lorenzo Cannone), 7 Michele Lamaro (c), 6 Alessandro Izekor, 5 Eli Snyman, 4 Niccolò Cannone (54? Edoardo Iachizzi), 3 Simone Ferrari (55? Giosué Zilocchi), 2 Giacomo Nicotera (35? Gianmarco Lucchesi ), 1 Thomas Gallo (55? Mirco Spagnolo). All.: Marco Bortolami.
Edinburgh: 15 James Lang, 14 Jake Henry, 13 Matt Currie, 12 Chris Dean (64? Cammy Scott), 11 Duhan van der Merwe, 10 Ben Healy (64? Mark Bennett), 9 Ali Price (60? Ben Vellacott), 8 Villame Mata 7 Luke Crosbie (61? Hamish Watson), 6 Jamie Ritchie, 5 Grant Gilchrist (c), 4 Sam Skinner (58? Marshall Sykes), 3 Wp Nel (58? Javan Sebastian), 2 Ewan Ashman (58? Dave Cherry), 1 Pierre Schoeman (58? Boan Venter). All.: Sean Everitt.
Referee: Ben Whitehouse (Gal).
