Darren Powell evaluations the weekend motion involving the Welsh sides.
Leinster placed on a second-half present to slay the Dragons
On Friday night time the Dragons travelled to The Aviva Stadium the place Leinster might be taking part in their house video games this season, all while the RDS is present process renovations.
Leinster had beforehand performed on the Aviva Stadium successful on 28 events previous to this sport.
The Dragons got here into this sport feeling assured after beating the Ospreys within the dying levels final week. It was an important day for Leinster as Irish prop Cian Healy was making his 281st look for the membership.
First Half
After a gradual begin for each groups, it was Leinster who crossed for the primary strive of the night with Quantity eight, Jack Conan crossing over from a line out within the 18th minute.
Seven minutes later it was a the Dragons’ flip to get on the rating board with fly-half Lloyd Evans efficiently kicking a penalty to chop the deficit.
Then after 36 minutes Ross Byrne went over for Leinster’s second strive of the night to provide Leinster a 10-6 lead on the break.
Second Half
It took simply 4 minutes for Leinster to attain their third strive of the night after the TMO confirmed that Max Deegan had grounded the ball over the road.
Then two minutes later, a quick-thinking lineout transfer noticed Joe McCarthy crash over to stretch the result in 24-6 going into the ultimate quarter-hour.
The fifth rating got here through Jordan Larmour earlier than winger Aitzol King strolled over for the sixth strive of the night for the house facet within the ultimate moments of the sport.
Last Rating Leinster 34-6 Dragons
Cardiff overcome shaky begin to take Welsh Derby
It was the second weekend of the season and it was one other Welsh Derby and this time it was West towards East as Llanelli was the venue on Saturday.
It was an important day for scrum-half Gareth Davies who was making his 250th look for the Scarlets.
First Half
It took simply 13 seconds for the Scarlets to open the scoring as centre Macs web page who was solely making his second look for the house facet collected a deflected kick from Cardiff full again Cam Winnett and the centre ran in to attain the opening strive of the sport. The conversion was added by Sam Costelow to make it 7-0 Scarlets.
Moments later the Scarlets added to the rating when Costelow kicked a penalty.
Moments later it was Taine Plumtree who had a straightforward stroll in to attain the Scarlets second strive of the afternoon.
It took Cardiff 17 minutes to get on the rating sheet as captain Liam Belcher went over after a driving line out.
Some good passing noticed winger Mason Grady cross for Cardiff’s second strive of the afternoon to chop the result in three on the break.
Second Half
It took 56 minutes for Cardiff to attain their third strive of the sport after Ryan Elias was despatched to the Sin bin after a excessive deal with was picked up by the referee.
Then a scrum was introduced down by Alec Hepburn after a number of scrum penalties which then went towards Hepburn and he was despatched to the Sin Bin.
That then resulted in Cardiff passing it a number of occasions and alternative winger Harri Millard crossed for Cardiff’s third strive.
Then Sam Costelow had the possibility to place the Scarlets again in entrance however his penalty was vast of the posts and it remained 15-17 to Cardiff.
Then on 62 minutes an entail kick by Cardiff centre Ben Thomas which was then charged down by Dan Thomas after which went backwards from Mason Grady.
It was then centre Thomas who gathered the ball and he managed handy off a number of Scarlets gamers and he scored for the fourth strive of the afternoon.
Dan Edwards on tune to provide Ospreys an enormous win in Bridgend
It was the Ospreys first house sport of the season but it surely wasn’t the Swansea.com stadium that was the venue for this match because the fixture needed to be performed else the place as a consequence of a conflict of fixtures between Swansea metropolis taking part in at house, so it was Bridgend that performed host on Saturday night and the Ospreys had additionally named this fixture Brewery fest, BRAAI Version which the abbreviation phrase Braai, which means ‘grilled meat’.
First Half
It took the Stormers simply 5 minutes to open the scoring in Bridgend after some good fingers noticed winger Leolin Zas cross over.
The conversion was profitable because the Stormers led 7-0 after 6 minutes.
It took the Ospreys 8 minutes to attain their first factors of the night after a profitable penalty by Dan Edwards.
It was a penalty by Jurie Mattee who prolonged the Stormers benefit by one other three factors.
Some pretty footwork by Ospreys centre Owen Watkin and a beautiful offload was ultimately noticed captain Jac Morgan rating the primary strive for the Ospreys.
Second Half
5 minutes into the second half a cool as you want drop objective by full again Damian Willemse noticed the Stormers added to their lead.
Moments later it was a beautiful kick via by Justin Tipuric which put the Stormers on the again foot 5 metres out from there strive line.
Three minutes after the Ospreys scored their second strive of the night as scrum-half Reuben Morgan-Williams, on his one centesimal look, went over after some nice stress by the house facet.
Three minutes later it was Dan Edwards who was calm as you want as he slotted over a beautiful drop objective which noticed the Ospreys transfer three factors clear.
It was then scrum half Reuben Morgan-Williams with a beautiful chip excessive after which it was re-gathered by Morgan-Williams who then calmly offloaded to Dan Edwards who went below the sticks.
JD Schickerling then went over for the guests after an entail drive to the road to chop the result in six factors with below the minutes to play.
However Ospreys sealed the win with a catch and drive maul which the Stormers collapsed, leading to referee Andrew brace going straight over to award the Ospreys a penalty strive.
A truth from the sport was that Dan Edwards grew to become simply the third Ospreys participant to attain a strive, convert , rating a penalty and a drop objective in the identical United Rugby Championship match after James Hook and Dan Biggar, who each did it twice.
