MADRID, 16 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish male team from Rugby XV has fallen into the final of the European International Championship 2025 Rugby, which this year serves as a continental qualifier for the World Championship, against Georgia (46-28), which defended its European crown.
In the Mikheil Meskhi Stadium in Tiflis, the ‘lions’ managed to go to rest only one point below, but twenty brilliant minutes in the second period were enough to the ‘LELOS’ to sentence the contest. With this result, Spain manages to improve the bronze achieved last year in the appointment and hang the silver medal.
At the start, the Spaniards played from you with the 17 times continental champion. The foot of Gonzalo López Bontempo was again the protagonist, and was in charge of opening the score, turning two infractions of the premises into points, one beyond 60 meters.
However, Georgia scored his first fruit of one of his main strengths, the Touch Maul, posed by his vain carver Karkadze, which would score another before the end of the first period. An essay by Martiniano Cyan after a robbery in the Planning of Estanislao Bay in the opposite field, kept Pablo Bouza ahead until minute 36, when the ‘Try-Man’ Georgiano Akaki Tabutsadze put his own to the advantage.
The second part, those of Richard Cockerill dominated clearly, and in just five minutes they posed three essays; The Spanish defense had already given seven essays in the 65th minute. Even so, the ‘lions’ managed to pose two more brands before the end, the work of Lucas Santamaría and Gonzalo López Bontempo. The final 46-28 improves the more than 60 points fitted in Madrid.