2024-02-11 16:25:00
Certainly, Belgium was beaten 33-18 in Romania during the second day of the Rugby Europe Championship but they were only 8 points behind two minutes from time. A final quarter of an hour of fire allowed the Black Devils to come back in the wake of the Romanians (from 26-6 to 26-18).
Between the hour mark and the end of the match, Laurent Dossat’s men had first logically inherited a penalty try then relied on several well-constructed phases of play to wreak havoc in the Chênes defense whose bark crumbled as the minutes passed. It was then a precise cross from Timothé Rifon which served the purposes of Simeon Soenen who placed the oval in the in-goal. Captain of the day, Dazzy Cornez was very close to bringing the deserved defensive bonus point to the Devils but failed by a few centimeters. On the throw-in in additional time, Romania definitively fixed the numbers but it was difficult for a team coming out of the World Cup in France.
Rugby: XXL feat of the Black Devils who beat the Portuguese at the opening of the Rugby Europe Championship
For 80 minutes, Belgium proved in the Arcul de Triumf in Bucharest that the initial success once morest Portugal was anything but chance and that they might, provided they persevere on the same path, claim a place among the twenty nations who will compete in the World Cup in Australia in 2027. The dream is no longer a utopia, no offense to the most skeptical, many of whom were still there just a few months ago… And yet the staff had to deal with the absence of several executives not released by their respective clubs. Despite eleven turnovers in the group of twenty-three, Belgium had lost none of its automatisms or in terms of the fluidity of transmissions. It remains to work on the power at the level of closed melee to prevent the opponent from having too much free ammunition…
In the event of success next Saturday once morest Poland at Waterloo, Belgium can enter the last four of the REC provided that Romania wins at home once morest Portugal.
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