Match Report

  • Cardiff Blues 29 Benetton Treviso 9

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    Cardiff Blues 29 Benetton Treviso 9 Thursday 21 April, 7.05pm It was Treviso who had the best of the opening minutes, with rampaging runs in the Blues twenty two causing problems for the defence, before they were awarded a penalty that De Waal converted. However, two Dan Parks penalties cancelled out their early lead. The […]

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Match Stats

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Match stats

Summary

Stat. Home team logo Cardiff Rugby Away team logo Benetton Rugby
Tries (35)
Xavier Rush (71)
Conversions Dan Parks (36), (71)
Penalties Dan Parks (5), (8), (10), (28), (52) Willem de Waal (3), (14), (40)

Match Stats

Stat. Home team logo Cardiff Rugby Away team logo Benetton Rugby
Posession First Half 0% 0%
Posession Second Half 0% 0%
Territory First Half 0% 0%
Territory Second Half 0% 0%
Tries 2 0
Conversions 2 0
Yellow Cards 0 3

Player Stats

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Match Line-up

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Line-up
  Home Team Logo Cardiff Rugby Away Team Logo Benetton Rugby
1 John Yapp Augusto Allori
2 Gareth Williams Leonardo Ghiraldini
3 Taufa'ao Filise Lorenzo Cittadini
4 Bradley Davies Francesco Minto
5 Paul Tito Valerio Bernabo
6 Ma'ama Molitika Manoa Vosawai
7 Martyn Williams Alessandro Zanni
8 Xavier Rush Paul Derbyshire
9 Richie Rees Fabio Semenzato
10 Dan Parks Willem de Waal
11 Tom James Ludovico Nitoglia
12 Jamie Roberts Alberto Sgarbi
13 Casey Laulala Ezio Galon
14 Leigh Halfpenny Tommaso Benvenuti
15 Chris Czekaj Joe Maddock

Replacements

  Home Team Logo Cardiff Rugby Home Team Logo Benetton Rugby
16 Rhys Williams Franco Sbaraglini
17 Sam Hobbs Michele Rizzo
18 Scott Andrews Ignacio Fernandez-Rouyet
19 Deiniol Jones Bian Vermaak
20 Michael Paterson Robert Barbieri
21 Lloyd Williams Simon Picone
22 Ceri Sweeney Andy Vilk
23 Dafydd Hewitt Luke McLean

Match Preview

  • Blues unchanged for Treviso

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    peaking ahead of the match, Cardiff Blues Director of Rugby, David Young, said, “Treviso are a team that caused us bags of problems over in Italy so we know that this won’t be an easy game for us.” “If I’m being truthful and realistic it’s a game that we should win and one we have […]

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Team Stats

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Team stats

The season so far

P: Played . W: Won D: Drawn L: Lost F: For A: Against Diff: Difference BP: Bonus Points Pts: Points (Total)

No.   Team Name P W D L F A Diff BP Pts
6 Team Logo Cardiff Rugby 22 13 1 8 479 392 87 6 60
10 Team Logo Benetton Rugby 22 9 0 13 374 502 -128 2 38

Form Guide

Cardiff Rugby Played Score Win/Loss
Benetton Rugby Home 29-9 Win
Connacht Rugby Away 12-26 Win
Ospreys Away 21-21 Draw
Munster Rugby Home 15-16 Loss
Benetton Rugby Played Score Win/Loss
Cardiff Rugby Away 29-9 Loss
Glasgow Warriors Home 19-16 Win
Dragons RFC Away 33-10 Loss
Scarlets Away 22-16 Loss

Past Meetings

Fri 24th Sep 2010
KO 19:05 CEST

Stadio Monigo

Europe/Rome

Celtic League

Benetton Rugby

7

V

19

Cardiff Rugby

Head-to-head

  Home Team Logo Cardiff Rugby Home Team Logo Benetton Rugby
Played 1 1
Wins 1 0
Wins at home 0 0
Wins away 1 0
Draws 0 0

From data since 2003