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Canadian men's rugby team loses to Samoa in Wales,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
The Canadian men's rugby team dropped the very first game of its Fall Tour having a 42-12 loss to Samoa on Friday.
Despite starting the final Ten minutes down 42-0,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], two late tries by Connor Braid and John Moonlight gave the Canadians some consolation.
"The way Samoa arrived on the scene,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they scored 3 or 4 tries using the little kicks behind,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they attacked from the kick-offs wide which exposed us,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Canadian head coach Kieran Crowley said.
"I thought our guys faced up pretty much,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but we simply got outplayed just a little."
Samoa opened the scoring after only five minutes when Taiasina Tuifua charged through and James So'oialo converted,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Canada's first chance to score came from
James Pritchard's boot, however the fullback was denied by the outside the right post after Ten minutes.
So'oialo added his second penalty on 16 minutes, with Robert Lilomaiava scoring in the corner only a minute afterwards. So'oialo missed the conversion.
Lilomaiava touched down in the corner once again,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], along with a So'oialo conversion gave the Samoans a 22-0 half-time lead.
Less than two minutes in to the second, Samoa put into their score when Faatiga Lemalu went over on the overlap,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with So'oialo converting.
Yet Canada showed they could threaten,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as Sean White broke the Samoan line. But with two defenders in front of him, he opted to kick and chase rather than using his support runner.
So'oialo punished Canada once again on 52 minutes, kicking from close to the halfway line to take the score to 32-0.
Nick Blevins was yellow carded to have an offence in the breakdown at 55 minutes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
So'oialo punished that certain for any 35-0 lead.
Samoa's scoring came to an end on 72 minutes with another So'oialo penalty,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Canada got on the board in the 74th as Moonlight scored,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ending a move that stretched the Samoan defence.
Braid earned the Canadians' second try in the last minute,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ending a time of great runs at the Samoan defence.
Pritchard converted,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for any final score of 42-12 to Samoa.
I think within the first 20 minutes, i was a bit too eager to hit the ruck,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but minus that period, the positives we can take are that people played right to the end,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], scored a couple of good tries,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and i believe we played good quality rugby,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Braid said. |
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