JOHANNESBURG – The Lions and Stormers engaged in an entertaining, high tempo, rip-roaring encounter on Saturday in Round 3 of the Rainbow Cup South Africa at Emirates Airline Park, but in the end it was the desperate Cape-based side that defeated an equally desperate Joburgers team to secure an important victory.
From the resulting penalty, line-out, maul, and crash ball, the Stormers won a penalty in the Lions’ half, which Tim Swiel duly slotted over to secure their only victory of the season thus far.It was an arm-wrestle of note for the full 80 minutes, and the Lions probably thought they had won it after a brilliant break from Morne van den Berg in the 75th minute off the back of the scrum, which exposed the Stormers’ blindside, and unleashed Rabs Maxwane to score the final Lions try.
The Lions tried their best to control proceedings thereafter, one point to the good and with the clock counting down, but enter Jantjies with a crucial and match-winning turnover in the last seconds of the match.Nevertheless, the Lions can take a handful of positives from the clash. Their scrum, propped up by Sti Sithole, Jaco Visagie and Carlus Sadie was solid against their more illustrious counterparts in Steven Kitshoff, Bongi Mbonambi and Frans Malherbe.
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