| Benetton: (13) 33 |
| Tries: Padovani, Lucchesi, Mendy 2 Cons: Smith 2 Penalties: Smith 3 |
| Glasgow Warriors: (6) 11 |
| Strive: Z Fagerson Penalties: Horne 2 |
Glasgow Warriors kicked off the United Rugby Championship season – and Franco Smith’s reign as head coach – with a dismal four-try loss away to Benetton.
The South African took over at Scotstoun after a poor end to final season underneath Danny Wilson.
However early tries from Edoardo Padovani and Gianmarco Lucchesi had Smith’s aspect on the again foot as soon as extra within the nation he led as nationwide head coach.
Ignacio Mendy added two extra both aspect of Zander Fagerson’s reply.
Smith marked his first aggressive recreation in cost by handing knowledgeable debut at fly-half to Auckland-born Tom Jordan, a stand-out within the home Super6 competitors with the Ayrshire Bulls, following accidents to Ross Thompson and Domingo Miotti.
Lucio Sordoni and Sintu Manjezi additionally pulled on Glasgow jerseys for the primary time within the ahead pack, with new captain Kyle Steyn on the left wing.
Nevertheless, the writing seemed on the wall from the time Rhyno Smith kicked the primary factors of the URC season from in entrance of the posts after solely 13 minutes.
George Horne replied inside three minutes, however that did not settle the guests and so they had been behind once more when Giacomo da Re discovered Padovani with an extended go out large for the full-back to the touch down with ease.
Lucchesi was subsequent throughout behind the maul as Benetton’s forwards pushed again the guests too simply in direction of their very own line.
A Horne penalty meant Warriors had been nonetheless solely seven factors behind on the break, however Mendy weaved via the static visiting defence instantly after the restart.
With Smith including the conversion and two penalties quickly after, Glasgow had been wanting a ragged and spent pressure.
Solely a contentious knock-on choice denied Benetton a bonus-point strive earlier than substitute prop Fagerson powered over after the primary little bit of flowing passing play from the guests.
The bonus level was solely delayed till the closing seconds as Mendy intercepted to interrupt clear for his second strive, with Smith including the simple extras.
Glasgow Warriors head coach Franco Smith: “Clearly, we’re slightly underneath cooked. There have been a lot of unforced errors and previous habits within the first half.
“It is unlucky that we did not play our first two warm-up video games. Disillusioned within the outcome – I feel we’re a significantly better group than that. Benetton are nicely coached, they performed nicely.
“We have loads loads to work on. I am nonetheless attending to know the gamers’ characters. It is one factor teaching them a brand new model of rugby, it is one other factor to get into their heads.”
Benetton Treviso: Smith, Padovani, Brex, Riera, Mendy, Da Re, Duvenage, Nemer, Lucchesi, Ferrari, Scrafton, Ruzza, Pettinelli, Zuliani, L Cannone.
Replacements: Nicotera, Zani, Pasquali, N Cannone, Lamaro, Hidalgo-Clyne, Zanon, Bellini.
Glasgow Warriors: Forbes, Cancelliere, Tuipulotu, McDowall, Steyn, Jordan, G Horne, Bhatti, F Brown, Sordoni, Bean, Grey, Manjezi, M Fagerson, Dempsey.
Replacements: Matthews, Kebble, Z Fagerson, Cummings, Darge, Gordon, Worth, Weir.
Referee: Frank Murphy (IRFU).
