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Match Report: Bulls rally to beat Jaguares as Stormers see off Sharks
By Iain Strachan
The Bulls recovered from a rapid Jaguares start to win 43-34 in Super Rugby on Saturday, while the Stormers saw off the Sharks at home.
Nicolas Sanchez, captain Pablo Matera and Gonzalo Bertranou scored tries, two of them converted, to open up a 19-0 advantage for the visiting Jaguares inside the opening 20 minutes at Loftus Versfeld Stadium.
Roused into action, Bulls responded emphatically.
Johnny Kotze, Embrose Papier and Jesse Kriel went over and fly-half Handre Pollard added the extras to see the South African franchise take a narrow 21-19 lead into the half-time break.
Bertranou touched down again in the 46th minute and Sanchez slotted the conversion, but a brace of tries from Jamba Ulengo - together with a score from Marco van Staden - afforded the hosts a degree of comfort.
And Matera's second try of the match arrived too late for the Argentine side to close the gap, as their seven-match winning streak came to an end.
Later, first-half tries from Cobus Wiese, EW Viljoen and Raymond Rhule set Stormers up to see off Sharks 27-16.
After Robert du Preez kicked three penalties before the break to keep the visitors in touch, Kobus van Wyk ran in a 43rd-minute try, which fly-half Du Preez converted.
But two late Joshua Stander penalties made the result safe for Stormers.
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Go to commentsEngland played well enough to win but couldnt score when they needed to and couldnt defend a couple of X-Factor moments from Telea which was ultimately the difference. They needed to hold the ball more and make the AB's make more tackles. Territorially they were good for the first 60. Defending their lead and playing pragmatic rugby in the last 20 was silly. The AB's always had the potential to come back. England still have a long way to go, definite progress would have been shown had they won but it seems they are still stuck where they were shortly after the six nations and their tour to NZ
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