Amazing score by Duvenage, the Lions yield only at 38 ‘. In the second half Munster spreads, Els and Pettinelli for the honor
LIMERICK (irlanda)
A very dignified time, to go up the field and the scoreboard after a painful start. But before the break, the wake of the advantage of 4 points, of inertia, and the regret for a missed kick by Allan. It was worth +7.
Upon returning, another goal suffered – must we remember that it is the same script as seven days ago? – and a quarter of errors and discipline, to deliver the match in the hands of Munster, who did not want all this grace, concentrated on closing the practice as soon as possible to concentrate on next Saturday’s final.
Treviso makes – and alas above all undoes – and unravels the defeat number 14 of the season, in this cursed Pro 14. What’s the point of the last trip to Glasgow now? Better to save the expenses of the charter. But one thing must be said immediately, from this stage: if two years ago Benetton, from the Thomond Park of the historic playoffs, saved the face of the entire Italian movement, now the failure of the Lions becomes a terrible aggravating circumstance for an oval Italy that he doesn’t even see the light at the end of the tunnel.
There remains the 80-meter goal marked at the last minute, by a counterattack by Sarto – why has so little been done this year? – sewn at 40 meters and finished with a sumptuous break by Pettinelli with fake. The breaks of the first half of a rediscovered Esposito remain, up to the one that, powered by offload from Pettinelli, had led to Duvenage’s flash for overtaking.
All that could have been, for Treviso in this damned pro 14, de was not. And certainly not the tournament’s Cinderella rugby.
Too bad, because the feeling is that even with a XV with a high rate of young people and “deb” (Pianella, not even 20 years old!) The match could be fought to the end, as already in Monigo. Moreover, Munster hit the bonus only in the 72nd minute – and perhaps there was a “forward” on which the pink Davidson-Neville ticket – first time in the history of referee and Tmo women (well but not very well) – preferred not to rage.
But then, why didn’t Treviso do it, despite scoring three goals? Two flashes that provide explanations, both bitter and merciless.
The first is an analysis of the first 18 ‘of the second half, when the goals of Knox and Salanoa dig the furrow. The first comes from an attack by Sgarbi, with Treviso who could play again or overturn the field. And instead, an uncontrolled oval behind the ruck, a blitz of the Irish thirds, and from there the attack for the first break, that of 17-7, is triggered. And the two wasted supernumbers in attack cry out for revenge, one in 5 against 3 …
Before and after, Crowley and the staff will surely have also counted the 2 missed aerial collections (a plague never cured by the Lions, and very painful) the 2 stupid fouls given that led the Red Army to the touchdown mauls at 5 meters, today without countermeasures for Treviso, if not with other fouls. Limits, messes and indiscipline: the cocktail once again lethal. And certainly also the referee, who at that juncture did not whistle 2 Irish offsides as big as a house.
The second flash is that of the “surroundings” of the goal being breached by Els’s drive. To get there, the Lions waste at least three assaults in the 22 (veil and kick against, forward to free Esposito, lost ball).
The photographer of the tremendous effort from Treviso, a new Hercules unable to win: she struggles to conquer meters, to score (in this expense item the 1 out of 4 of Allan from the pitch must also be inserted), to defend the advantages and territory.
The disarming zero in the victories, the unprecedented losing streak in the history of Treviso also arise from here. And not only from the field: the group and the locker room can compensate, in an emergency. Not this year, unfortunately. –
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