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Lions tamed despite the Stormers losing Angelo Davids to a red card
By PA
Angelo Davids was sent off for a horror tackle but the Stormers still edged the Lions 29-24 in Cape Town. Davids was shown a red card in the 48th minute for a shoulder-led challenge to the head of Sanele Nohamba, lining up his hit at pace as the Lions fly-half was catching a high ball.
Referee Marius van der Westhuizen described the tackle as showing an “extremely high level of danger” and Davids’ afternoon was over, completing a mixed 25th birthday for the wing given he had scored an earlier try.
Nohamba was knocked out and would also play no further part in an otherwise pulsating match between rival South African teams.
Andre-Hugo Venter and Davids traded first-half tries with Lions pair Francke Horn and JC Pretorius before Evan Roos and Adre Smith added further scores for the Stormers after Davids saw red.
Manie Libbok kicked three conversions and a penalty for the Stormers, with Jordan Hendrikse converting one try and landing four penalties for the Lions.
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I was at this match. Jordie Barrett earned his money with a massive hit to slow a connaught attack to win the math when Leinster had 14 in the last few mins. Mack Hansen had a real go at the refereeing after citing a serious head hits on Iaone and Aki.
connaught were up for this. Snyman tried a trademark dirty after, and the onnaught 4 and the onnaught pack absolutely laid into him.
Leinster hose to kick to the corner when only winning by 5 with 10 left and qith only 2 tries scored. onnaught should have punisihed them for that utter stupidity after they broke out and Leinster yellowed to stop the attack.
13 changes from last week. It seems teams are scoring about 10 points less against Leinster this year. With Neinaber in his second year, the new attack coah established, surely they will be a bigger threat in champions up? Or will the attack recgress further.
They must adopt the SA philosophy of take your 3 pointers and the bonus points will come.
connaught back line inluding Iaone, Murphy, Aki, Forde, cordero is the seond best in Ireland surely. Leinster were lucky here
Go to commentsShould have played more for England but he jumped ship just as he was breaking through.
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