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Benetton Rugby, a historic feat: Treviso is in the quarter-finals of the Challenge Cup

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Beaten the Agen in Monigo: it is the first Italian to go so far in Europe

TREVISO. The paradox has served: can a team that has always lost in its championship (the Pro 14) now even dream of reaching the semifinal of the second European cup? Yes, it can. Benetton beat Agen 29-16 in Monigo and qualified for the quarter-finals of the Challenge Cup, on Saturday afternoon they will go to France, to Montpellier, to try to give themselves another smile in a troubled season.

Yet it did not start very well for Treviso: after 30 seconds the first whistle against for indiscipline, after a minute and 45 seconds the goal was conceded. In short, not even the time to leave the locker room and for the green-and-whites (in yellow suits) here are the usual Pro 14 ghosts.

On the other hand, the team – finally with some national “weight” at their disposal – manages to get back up the field well and does not beg when the French find themselves with their hands in the jam. So first Garbisi shortens his foot, then it is Duvenage who breaks through the Agen defensive line and lands the goal, with Garbisi a little later to put it again between the posts. We go to rest on 14-10, since Verdu also did not ask to be transformed.

In the second half it was Monty Ioane’s ferocious shot that left its mark in the defense of the French: the Australian winger went in goal for the draw that seems decisive. But on 19-10 Agen doesn’t give up, he goes back with two placed by Verdu, but when Zanon launches towards the goal line he is stopped by a tackle from Taulagi’s shoulder: red for the French wing, the center of Benetton instead comes out in a mask of blood (all ok for him, anyway).

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Treviso at this point takes advantage of the numerical superiority and still goes to the goal twice, first with Brex and then with Padovani, freed near the sideline after a great job in the engine room. The French remain a bit of pride, but then Treviso does not struggle to manage the final and close 29-16.

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