3 days ago Glasgow Warriors endured much heartbreak arsenic the Bulls recovered from an 18-point shortage to triumph their United Rugby Championship play-off semi-final astatine Murrayfield.
Having mislaid astatine the quarter-final signifier of the Champions Cup to Toulon, Warriors were hoping to sphere their hopes of silverware against their South African visitors, who person finished arsenic URC runners-up 2 years running.
For the Bulls, who mislaid to Glasgow successful the 2024 final, either Leinster oregon Stormers basal successful the mode of a maiden URC title, having joined the contention successful 2021. Leinster big Stormers successful Dublin successful Saturday's 2nd semi-final.
Handre Pollard gave the Bulls a punishment pb but was past sin-binned for a deliberate knock-on.
Glasgow, who finished apical of the URC standings, got the archetypal effort erstwhile Kyle Rowe threw close to namesake Steyn for the people and, wrong moments, a akin determination ended with Sione Tuipulotu offloading for Steyn to transverse successful astir the nonstop aforesaid spot. Dan Lancaster added his 2nd conversion.
The Bulls' day worsened arsenic a rolling maul resulted successful a punishment effort for the hosts and Ruan Nortje was yellowish carded successful the aftermath.
The visitors had to respond and thought they had forced implicit astatine a ruck done Marcell Coetzee but the TMO ruled against them. Their archetypal people arrived with their adjacent propulsion astatine the line, Johan Grobbelaar touching down and Pollard converting, leaving Glasgow with a 21-10 half-time lead.
Warriors' Scott Cummings was sent to the bin aboriginal successful the 2nd play for repeated infringements and Embrose Papier took vantage by skipping implicit astatine the enactment for the Bulls' 2nd try. Pollard's conversion effort was wide.
The Bulls were successful the ascendancy and Cummings' yellowish paper was looking ever much costly arsenic Cameron Hanekom gained territory and Francois Klopper went successful nether the posts to acceptable up an casual Pollard conversion. Nineteen unanswered points abruptly had the South African broadside successful the lead.
Pollard was unsuccessful with 3 penalties successful a row, keeping the spread astatine 1 constituent with 7 minutes to play.
Scrum aft scrum failed to summation Glasgow the momentum they needed successful the closing stages and the visitors doggedly saw retired the narrowest of victories.
They volition contention their 4th URC Grand Final connected 20 June.
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