The Stormers’ began their second-half of the season playoff cost with a shocking 43-21 upset win over Edinburgh, a workforce sitting 4 locations above them on the URC table earlier than kick off.
Suleiman Hardenberg will hog the headlines — and rightly so — for his hat-trick of tries. However Springbok Damian Willemse, within the function of main playmaker, produced an otherworldly efficiency that allowed the likes of Hartzenberg, Leolin Zas and centres Wandisile Simelane and Dan du Plessis to flourish.
There was simply no stopping the Stormers backline on this contest, and if it weren’t for a number of squandered scoring alternatives and Manie Libbok’s misfiring boot, they’d have gained this recreation by an excellent larger margin.
STORMERS VERSUS EDINBURGH MATCH SUMMARY
Stormers wings, Hartzenberg and Zas, bagged a brace of tries every to present the house aspect a 26-14 lead. Edinburgh’s tries, scored by Jake Henry and Viliame Mata, had been mainly gift-wrapped efforts by the Stormers, who misplaced possession within the run-up to the guests’ first five-pointer after which horribly tousled a kick-off which allowed the opposition to pounce.
Whereas these had been the one scoring acts of the half, the Stormers accomplished a litany of attacking performs at will, however likelihood after likelihood went begging on account of poor dealing with and ending within the neighborhood between the 5m line and the in-goal space.
Be that as it could, the hosts got here firing out the blocks initially of the second stanza with younger Hartzenberg scoring a 3rd to finish his hat-trick earlier than Springbok Evan Roos crashed over for a try-double of his personal to successfully finish the sport as a contest.
TEAM SHEETS
Stormers — 15 Damian Willemse, 14 Suleiman Hartzenberg, 13 Wandisile Simelane, 12 Dan du Plessis, 11 Leolin Zas, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Paul de Moist, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Ben-Jason Dixon, 6 Nama Xaba, 5 Ruben van Heerden, 4 Salmaan Moerat (captain), 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Andre-Hugo Venter, 1 Brok Harris.
Subs: 16 Joseph Dweba, 17 Lizo Gqoboka, 18 Neethling Fouche, 19 Connor Evans, 20 Hacjivah Dayimani, 21 Herschel Jantjies, 22 Jurie Matthee, 23 Ben Loader.
Edinburgh — 15 Emiliano Boffelli, 14 Wes Goosen, 13 Mark Bennett, 12 Matt Currie, 11 Jake Henry, 10 Ben Healy, 9 Ben Vellacott (captain), 8 Viliame Mata, 7 Hamish Watson, 6 Ben Muncaster, 5 Sam Skinner, 4 Jamie Hodgson, 3 WP Nel, 2 Dave Cherry, 1 Boan Venter.
Subs: 16 Patrick Harrison, 17 Luan de Bruin, 18 Javan Sebastian, 19 Marshall Sykes, 20 Tom Dodd, 21 Charlie Shiel, 22 Cammy Scott, 23 Chris Dean.