{"id":386833,"date":"2011-04-21T20:31:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/21\/cardiff-blues-29-9-treviso\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:31:49","slug":"cardiff-blues-29-9-treviso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/cardiff-blues-29-9-treviso\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff Blues 29-9 Treviso"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"165\">\n<div>\n<h2>Cardiff Blues<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Tries:<\/em> Penalty, Rush<\/li>\n<li><em>Cons:<\/em> Parks 2<\/li>\n<li><em>Pens:<\/em> Parks 5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/a0c252303637_cdf_cardiffblues_v_treviso06-3.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Blues lock Bradley Davies on the charge\" \/> The Blues struggled to break through the Treviso defence<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Blues moved up two places into third in the Magners League table with a lacklustre win over Benetton Treviso.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to boost their hopes of finishing second with a bonus-point win, the Blues could only manage a penalty try and a Xavier Rush score.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Parks kicked the other Blues points with two conversions and five penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Treviso, who had three players sent to the sin bin, managed three first-half penalties from Willem De Waal&#8217;s boot.<\/p>\n<p>The victory leaves the Blues a point behind second-place Leinster with two away games against the Dragons and the Scarlets to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring four tries was the objective for the home side but the creative spark and composure was missing against a well-drilled and stubborn Italian side.<\/p>\n<p>Tom James came within an inch of converting the early pressure into a try but the winger&#8217;s toes grazed the touchline as he collected Parks&#8217; kick, making his dive over the tryline immaterial.<\/p>\n<p>Scrum-half Richie Rees then made a clean break from his own 22 after a lucky ricochet, but the Blues lacked cohesion in the Treviso half as they looked to recycle the ball, allowing the visiting defence to spoil a great attacking platform.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues maintained field position, though, and another infringement at the ruck resulted in a yellow card for flanker Alessandro Zanni and a fourth successful penalty for Parks with almost half an hour played.<\/p>\n<p>Eight minutes later, the visitors were down to 13 men as replacement prop Michele Rizzo followed his team-mate to the sin bin after another offence in a ruck 10 metres from his own tryline.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues opted for a scrum from the resulting penalty, and the referee had little hesitation in awarding a penalty try as the Treviso pack collapsed in retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Parks added the simple conversion, but De Waal replied for Treviso with his third penalty to reduce the home side&#8217;s advantage to 19-9 at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Lateral running had been the Blues&#8217; biggest hindrance in the opening 40 minutes, with the forwards guilty of denying the ball-starved wings any space out wide.<\/p>\n<p>Losing winger Leigh Halfpenny after just 10 minutes was also significant, forcing centre Jamie Roberts &#8211; renowned for his straight midfield running &#8211; to move to the right wing.<\/p>\n<p>The listless nature of the Blues&#8217; play continued after the break, with their only points of the opening half hour coming from a fifth successful Parks penalty following another Treviso infringement at the breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>Yet more offending in a ruck gave the fly-half another potential shot at goal, but this time Parks kicked for touch, to loud ironic applause from the home crowd at Cardiff City Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The kick set up a perfect attacking position, and after replacement Deiniol Jones won clean ball from the lineout, a well controlled rolling maul gave Rush the simplest of tasks to fall over the line to score the Blues&#8217; second try. Parks converted.<\/p>\n<p>A sense of desperation came into the Blues&#8217; play in the final 10 minutes, but the stubborn Italians held on with relative ease, despite losing replacement Roberto Barberi into the sin bin in the closing stages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cardiff Blues:<\/strong> Chris Czekaj; Leigh Halfpenny, Casey Laulala, Jamie Roberts, Tom James; Dan Parks, Richie Rees; John Yapp, Gareth Williams, Taufa&#8217;ao Filise, Bradley Davies, Paul Tito (c), Ma&#8217;ama Molitika, Martyn Williams, Xavier Rush.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Replacements:<\/strong> Rhys Williams, Sam Hobbs, Scott Andrews, Deiniol Jones, Michael Paterson, Lloyd Williams, Ceri Sweeney, Dafydd Hewitt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Treviso:<\/strong> Joseph Maddock; Tommaso Benvenuti, Ezio Galon, Alberto Sgarbi, Ludovico Nitoglia; Willem De Waal, Fabio Semenzato; Augusto Allori, Leonardo Ghiraldini (c), Lorenzo Cittadini, Francesco Minto, Valerio Bernab\u00f2, Manoa Vosawai, Alessandro Zanni, Paul Derbyshire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Replacements:<\/strong> Franco Sbaraglini, Michele Rizzo, Ignacio Fernandez Rouyet, Benjamin Vermaak, Robert Barbieri, Simon Picone, Andrew Vilk, Luke McLean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Referee:<\/strong> Neil Paterson (Scotland)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant referees:<\/strong> James Jones, Simon Harris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TMO:<\/strong> Gareth Simmonds (Wales).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/a0c252303637_cdf_cardiffblues_v_treviso06-3-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/rugby_union\/13133248.stm\" title=\"Cardiff Blues 29-9 Treviso\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardiff Blues 29-9 Treviso<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Cardiff Blues Tries: Penalty, Rush Cons: Parks 2 Pens: Parks 5 The Blues struggled to break through the Treviso defence Cardiff Blues moved up two places into third in the Magners League table with a lacklustre win over Benetton Treviso. Looking to boost their hopes of finishing second with a bonus-point win, the Blues could only manage a penalty try and a Xavier Rush score. Dan Parks kicked the other Blues points with two conversions and five penalties. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cardiff Blues 29-9 Treviso - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/cardiff-blues-29-9-treviso\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Cardiff Blues 29-9 Treviso - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Cardiff Blues Tries: Penalty, Rush Cons: Parks 2 Pens: Parks 5 The Blues struggled to break through the Treviso defence Cardiff Blues moved up two places into third in the Magners League table with a lacklustre win over Benetton Treviso. 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