In Rome, the guests closed the bonus issue in 48 minutes and scored 5 tries with Johnson, Harris (2), Graham and Hogg. For the Azzurri, a double from the newcomer Capuozzo and a goal from Braley
Still beaten. Scotland passes Italy 33-22 in Rome in the match of the fourth day of the Six Nations rugby. The second victory in the Tournament allows the team of coach Greg Townsend to climb to 9 points in the standings, however now out of the fight for the title, with France very far away at 18. The Italy of coach Kieran Crowley at least manages to find the first tries in the Tournament, even if the points are always zero. And the streak of consecutive defeats of the Azzurri in the Tournament reaches 36.
Double
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Having overcome the annoyance for the deafening pre-match of an exasperating deejay, fortunately silenced by the hymns and bagpipes of the always wonderful Flower of Scotland, a Scottish offside allows the Azzurri to go for the poles already at 5 ‘and Paolo Garbisi slips from 40 meters. Italy are aggressive in defense, but waste a couple of good opportunities in attack due to lack of clarity, while Scotland seem to be dozing. Until the 18 ‘. On Paolo Garbisi’s long drop out of 22, the ball reaches Stuart Hogg, who is left too much field to restart, so the extreme arrives close to 10 meters and then throws the hooker George Turner to the right, who flies away as a wing, breaks Callum Braley’s first tackle that is too soft, then another, before yielding to Ali Price: the action of the scrum half is stopped, but the Scots let the ball out quickly to find a clear superiority off to the left where it is up to Sam Johnson the honor of sprinting to goal. The blues seem to react well and manage to enter the 22 opponents immediately, but right in front of the goalposts Braley opens on his right but serves Price who flies up to pass the half, but the blues take him back, then the midfielder extends to Johnson, who , in turn, realizes that he has slipped into a dead end, so he kicks central towards the posts, in a totally open area where the other center Chris Harris arrives first, who can comfortably walk to the goal under the posts. Finn Russell misses the first transformation, but shoves the second. But this time Italy manages to put in a finally constructive reaction: from a beautiful dominant scrum in the middle of the field a fast ball comes out for the backs, with the beautiful hands of Edoardo Padovani and Braley to throw on the right wing Pierre Bruno, who he reaches almost to the flag and then, when he sees himself tackled, with a spell in offload he delivers the ball inside for his scrum half, which he only has to crush (and Garbisi transforms). But in the 37th minute Scotland rallies with Chris Harris’ brace: scrum with Scottish introduction in front of the posts, ball out to the right with Hogg who with a short pass sets up for the run with a breakthrough in the center. Curious that of the 5 goals to score in his career with the Scotland shirt, 4 Harris have achieved them with Italy. Russell transforms and at the break it goes on 19-10 for Scotland.
Bonus
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At 46 ‘comes the blue debut of Ange Capuozzo, 22 year old extreme of Grenoble, who enters in place of Bruno. And in the 48th minute the bonus goal arrives: having entered the 22 thanks to the breaks of Hogg and Sam Skinner, the Scots find the hole thanks to Russell, who with a short pass serves Darcy Graham, who in turn avoids a couple of Italians and crushes. At 62 ‘, however, the Azzurri are disastrous in their defensive positioning when Price collects a ball in the middle of the field and first navigates undisturbed horizontally, then when he realizes that he has absolutely no one in front, perhaps incredulous too, he starts vertically, and then unloads comfortably. outside for Hogg’s sprint in-goal. Russell transforms both goals. At 67 ‘, however, Italy has a flash and from an action that seems dead with too slow balls carried by the forwards, an unexpected superiority is instead found offshore, with a perfect long pass of Nacho Brex towards Padovani, who from the out line he invents a beautiful internal exhaust for Capuozzo, who slips between two Scots and manages, taking advantage of the tackle, to roll in goal (Garbisi transforms). The final game is not bad for Italy, which at least partially redeems a match played in a too disordered way and with too many tactical and technical deficiencies. With time expired, however, a great break from Federico Ruzza opens the Scottish defense and then it is again Capuozzo who goes further to sign the brace and the goal on which the match ends.
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