Samoa exploit Russian fatigue to secure bonus-point win
Pacific islanders score six tries in their opening Pool A game
24 September 2019 - 17:34
Samoa survived being reduced to 13 men for almost 10 minutes in the first half and struggled to overcome a limited and exhausted Russia team to open their Pool A campaign with a bonus-point 34-9 victory at Kumagaya Rugby Stadium on Tuesday.
The Pacific islanders scored six tries but did themselves no favours in a scrappy game in which Rey Lee-Lo and Motu Matu’u were shown yellow cards for high tackles within two minutes of each other, while Russia’s Kirill Gotovtsev was sin-binned for a similar offence...
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