The Emirates Lions scored a 37-19 win against the Stormers in Cape Town tonight. It was clear that both teams did not play for four weeks resulting in a scrappy game by both sides. A match that will only be remembered for the 5 yellow cards.
The Stormers ended the first half the stronger side although they were behind with a single point, the Lions led 13-12 at that stage. The second half saw the Lions take advantage of the mounting Stormers' errors and scored an answered 17 points before a try a piece was scored by both teams.
10:00 Flanker, Vincent Tshituka burst through a tackle and then passed the ball to Francke Horn who strolled over for the first try of the match (00-07).
14:23 Fred Zeilinga converted a penalty for the Lions. Chirping by the Stormers were rewarded with 10m gainst them enabling Zeilinga to convert (00-10).
15:10 Salmaan Moerat (Stormers) showed a yellow card.
16:16 Willem Alberts (Lions) showed a yellow card.
20:00 The lions started like a house on fire early on. However, the Stormers came back in the middle of the first quarter only to see the Lions ending the first quarter on the front foot. At this stage of the match an equal battle
21:57 Edwill vd Merwe (Lions) showed a yellow card.
26:30 Stefan Ungerer scored a great try down the sideline after a blunder by the Lions on the defence (07-10).
30:15 Seabelo Senatla scored in the corner after most of the Stormers handled the ball on their way to the Lions' tryline (12-10)
38:29 Fred Zeilinga converted his 2nd penalty for the Lions (12-13).
40:00 A match still balanced on a knife's edge with the momentum maybe just with the Stormers at the stage.
44:07 Andre Warner exposed the Stormers shoot-up of defence to score the Lions' 2nd try. (12-20)
48:17 Jaco Visagie (Lions) showed a yellow card.
55:21 Vincent Tshituka scored the Lions 3rd try after a great linebreak by Burger Odendaal (12-27).
60:00 A fumbling Stormers' errors made it easy for the Lions to dominate the game at this stage. The Lions scored two unanswered tries during the 3rd quarter.
65:43 Rikus Pretorius (Stormers) showed a yellow card.
68:15 Fred Zeilinga added another 3 points with a converted penalty (12-30).
76:58 Andre-Hugo Venter go over for the Stormers' 3rd try (19-30).
78:08 A soft try by Francke Horn to secure a bonus point (19-37)
Scorers:
DHL Stormers: Tries: Stefan Ungerer, Seabelo Senatla, Andre-Hugo Venter. Conversions: Manie Libbok (2).
Emirates Lions: Tries: Francke Horn (2), Andre Warner, Vincent Tshituka. Conversions: Fred Zeilinga (4). Penalties: Fred Zeiliga (3).
Teams:
DHL Stormers: 15 Warrick Gelant, 14 Sergeal Petersen, 13 Ruhan Nel, 12 Dan du Plessis, 11 Seabelo Senatla, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Stefan Ungerer, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Willie Engelbrecht, 6 Junior Pokomela, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Salmaan Moerat (captain), 3 Neethling Fouche, 2 Scarra Ntubeni, 1 Brok Harris. Replacements: 16 Andre-Hugo Venter, 17 Kwenzo Blose, 18 Lee-Marvin Mazibuko, 19 Ernst van Rhyn, 20 Nama Xaba, 21 Godlen Masimla, 22 Rikus Pretorius, 23 Tim Swiel.
Emirates Lions: 15. EW Viljoen 14. Edwill van der Merwe 13. Wandisile Simelane 12. Burger Odendaal (c) 11. Rabz Maxwane 10. Fred Zeilinga 9. Andre Warner 8. Francke Horn 7. Vincent Tshituka 6. Jaco Kriel 5. Reinhard Nothnagel 4. Ruben Schoeman 3. Carlu Sadie 2. Jaco Visagie 1. Sti Sithole. Replacements: 16. Pieter Jacobus Botha 17. Morgan Naude 18. Jannie du Plessis 19. Willem Alberts 20. Ruhan Straeuli 21. Morne van den Berg 22. Matt More 23. Tiaan Swanepoel.