WARRIORS DO A MUNSTER MASH
Bully for Glasgow as they seal Springbok final
AN INSPIRED display against the champions gave Glasgow a superb win in this URC semi-final – and put them through to their first showpiece since 2019.
Warriors will now travel to South Africa for Saturday’s final, when they will meet the Bulls in Pretoria.
The Bulls beat Leinster 25-20 in yesterday’s first semi-final.
Franco Smith’s team lost 40-34 away to the Bulls just last month in the regular season but if they play as well as they did at Limerick’s Thomond Park yesterday they wi l l give themselves every chance.
Player of the match Sione Tuipulotu said: “Full credit to our coaches, we came out and executed the play.
“We had an awesome week in preparation, these are the games you want to be a part of, I think we are just building after the Stormers last week.
“Since the Glasgow summer hasn’t arrived yet, I’m looking forward to getting back to South Africa and some sunshine.”
The Warriors’ early discipline was poor and after giving away a string of penalties Italian referee Andrea Piardi sent Richie Gray to the sin bin for their sixth offence.
Jack Crowley kicked it for 3-0 but, just as Gray was due to come back on, Warriors hit back as Kyle Steyn ran in from halfway. George Horne converted to put his team into a 7-3 lead.
Just as the clock went past the 40-minute mark Matt Fagerson saw yellow for going in high on Peter O’Mahony.
But the 14- man Scots extended their lead early in the second period as Sebastian
Cancelliere touched down after good work from Huw Jones.
Horne added the extras to put the visitors 14- 3 up only for Munster to hit back when Antoine Frisch squeezed in at the left corner.
Crowley converted to narrow the gap to 14-10.
But Glasgow controlled the game superbly after that as the clock ticked down.
And when Munster centre Alex Nankivell was sent off with six minutes to go for head contact on Horne, the scrumhalf put over the penalty to seal a well-deserved victory.