Ciencias falls to Burgos and gives up second place (33-8)

Ciencias Enerside Rugby conceded a very cruel defeat in their visit to Recoletas Burgos Universidad de Burgos, with Atorrasagasti ruling. The 33-8 that the score finally reversed was nothing more than confirmation of the superiority of the Burgos Fifteen over the Sevilla Fifteen, who barely managed to score in the second half of a match that didn’t really go into yesterday morning. Oddly enough, she was Only the displacement that scientists will carry out in the second round of Rugby’s Honor Division and the result couldn’t have been more miserable, despite the substance of the opposition.

Following TAD’s decision on FC Barcelona’s appeal, the rest of the matches Ciencias must face will be at home in La Cartuja: VRAC Quesos Entrepinares (April 1), UE Santboiana (April 16) and Barcelona itself (May 14, if neither team is seeded for the final). King’s Cup, the match will be brought forward to May 6). For this reason, yesterday was a good opportunity to see how the Sevillian team develops against an opponent who has come up with a great run, and who is above them in the standings. At the end of the day, Burgos was second and Ciencias thirdalso.

Zabalegui starts the party

Soon the scientific catastrophe began. Juan Diego Zabalegui was right to pass the oval into Ax to make it 3-0 thanks to a 5-minute penalty. The Castilian side forced offside in their next attack and the next penalty was converted again by El Zabalegi to make it 6-0 after eight minutes of play.

The Al-Alamy Fifteen succeeded in balancing the match and Cormac Fox was able to convert the first penalty kick in favor of (6-3), but Burgos’ response was another offside for the visitors, who took advantage of Al-Zabalegui’s inspiration again to make the score 9-3 in the score in the 26th minute.

missed opportunity

After feints from both attacks and a wasted touch by Ciencias, Feta Casteglioni took advantage of an obvious error from Ciencias’ line and, after an interception, were left unopposed to win the first try of the match. One has been cancelled. Once again, Zabalijy did not forgive a direct hit to the sticks and changed the kick to make the score 16-3, shortly before the end of the first half.

At the start of the match, Ciencias found himself defenseless against a brilliant attack by Burgos, who managed the second try of the match through Wagenaar. Zabalegui, from a highly slanted position, executed the turnaround perfectly and made it 23-3 on the scoreboard. The match against Ciencias was permanently cut short.

The reaction of those from Mazo was delayed

Curiously, Ciencias only stepped back when Iñaki Mateu was ruled out for 10 minutes for foul play. Facundo Nogueira managed to take the test at 58 minutes, but Coco Roldán didn’t turn it around (23-8). Another penalty kick and a new domestic trial would close the match.

Scientific coach Manuel Mazo acknowledged the clear superiority of the opponent: “We got past Burgos, made fouls, made mistakes that they knew how to exploit to make a difference on the scoreboard from the start”.