The San Isidro Club is a team that knows how to play the decisive stages and has shown it once again by beating Newman 18-17, on the CASI field, to reach the final of the URBA Top 13 in which they will face the next Hindu on Saturday on the same stage.
This is the third consecutive final reached by SIC, which in 2019 became champion after eight years of waiting and in 2021 ranked second after losing very little against CUBA 10-9 (in 2020 the tournament was not played by the pandemic) .
The Boulogne team had to fight hard to win this match against a Newman who was the second best placed in the regular round after Hindú and who intended to win to enter a final and seek the first title in its history, which has been denied since 2008. when he fell to Hindú (he would later lose two Nacional de Clubes finals, also against Don Torcuato’s team, in 2015 and 2018).
The SIC, for its part, is a team that grows when playing this type of matches and despite having remained in the standings for a long time and was beaten in the first half in the scrum, it has been able to put a claw to balance the actions and move to the fore in the plugin.
Newman, somehow, ended up paying for his lack of effectiveness in the first phase where he had the wind in his favor and tried to exploit that factor to corner a SIC that could hardly use the resource of football to get out. the siege, because literally when he kicked the ball “stopped” in the air.
In that context, the Cardinal went to the interval 14-12 above, even if that advantage was small if you take into account that the wind would have been against him in the complement. And so it was: at that stage the SIC managed to equalize the bidding process and obtained a measly advantage that it had no intention of giving up and that would have ended up meaning victory.
Interestingly, the winner’s two tries came in the first half: Marcos Borghi scored the first win with a well-managed maul and winger Francisco González Capdevilla ended up leaning on the left after Newman’s bench got a pass. forward in the previous play. The move was verified by the TMO, which ended up validating the conquest.
Already in the second stage, opener Joaquín Lamas scored the two penalties that gave SIC victory. Paco He is one of the most outstanding players that the trencher: He was the title hero in 2019, scoring the golden drop that meant glory, and this year he alternated between representing his club and playing for the Los Pumas Seven, Argentina’s shrunken rugby team.
What remained in the mood to celebrate was Newman’s opening half, Gonzalo Gutiérrez Taboada, who completed an excellent performance scoring 17 points for his team: one try, three penalties and one drop goal. Furthermore, this meeting could mean the retirement of the former Puma Agustín Gosio, who at 39 does not know if he will continue the activity next year.
Source: Clarin
