{"id":50644,"date":"2025-04-25T23:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/50644\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T23:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:32:12","slug":"edinburgh-snatch-late-draw-away-to-zebre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/50644\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh snatch late draw away to Zebre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>United Rugby Championship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zebre<\/strong> (12) 25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tries:<\/strong> Fusco 2, Trulla <strong>Cons:<\/strong> Da Re 2 Pens: Montemauri 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edinburgh<\/strong> (6) 25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tries:<\/strong> Venter 2, Currie <strong>Cons:<\/strong> Thomson, Scott <strong>Pens:<\/strong> Thomson 2<\/p>\n<p>Cammy Scott nailed a difficult conversion with the last kick of the game to earn Edinburgh a draw away to Zebre, which does little for their chances of reaching the United Rugby Championship play-offs .<\/p>\n<p>A thrilling burst from Darcy Graham set up Matt Currie for an 82nd-minute score in the corner and replacement fly-half Scott curled over a wonderful kick from the touchline to level the match at 25-25.<\/p>\n<p>It nudges Edinburgh up to ninth in the table but they have now played one more game than the three sides below them, all within four points.<\/p>\n<p>Zebre, who won in the Scottish capital earlier this season, were down to 14 following a yellow card for fly-half Giacomo Da Re when Ross Thomson slotted over the opening penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Scrum-half Alessandro Fusco hit back for the depleted hosts, feigning to pass then ducking in to score.<\/p>\n<p>Thomson knocked over another penalty soon after, but the lively Fusco also struck again squirting away from a driving maul for his second try.<\/p>\n<p>Early in second half, Zebra stretched the visitors with some snappy passing, allowing full-back Jacopo Trulla to dot down.<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh had been looking rather sluggish before prop Boan Venter bulldozed his way through two attempted tackles to reduce the deficit, with Thomson missing a straightforward conversion.<\/p>\n<p>Venter again demonstrated his raw power to create space where there had been none before stretching for the line. This time, Thomson added the extras to make it a one-point game.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors&#8217; momentum was then halted by a yellow card for Ben Muncaster, with two penalties from Giovanni Montemauri setting Zebre on course for a double over Edinburgh before the late intervention from Currie and Scott, with both sides left feeling deflated at the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Line-ups<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zebre: <\/strong>Trulla, Gregory, Paea, Mazza, Gesi, Da Re, Fusco; Fischetti, Di Bartolomeo, Hasa, Canali, Krumov, Ferrari, Stavile, Licata.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Bigi, Buonfiglio, Pitinari, Zambonin, Nasove, Garcia, Montemauri, Morisi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edinburgh:<\/strong> Paterson, Graham, Currie, Lang, Brown, Thompson, Price; Venter, Harrison, Rae, Young, Skinner, Muncaster, Watson, Bradbury.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Morris, Hislop, Williams, Gilchrist, Douglas, Shiel, Scott, Tuipulotu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1745623932_602_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Rugby Championship Zebre (12) 25 Tries: Fusco 2, Trulla Cons: Da Re 2 Pens: Montemauri 2 Edinburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[27188,748,10231,27187,27189,1102,4884,27184,27185,712,27186,16,15,4510,14773],"class_list":{"0":"post-50644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-alessandro-fusco","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-cammy-scott","11":"tag-currie-cons","12":"tag-darcy-graham","13":"tag-edinburgh","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-matt-currie","16":"tag-ross-thomson","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-scott-pens","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-united-rugby-championship","22":"tag-zebre"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114401217293902646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}