The Lions and Glasgow Warriors met in a round 17 United Rugby Championship match at Ellis Park on Saturday.
The Joburg team put aside several setbacks to score a number of quality tries to beat the visitors from Scotland.
With just one match to play before the quarter-finals are contested, against the Stormers in Cape Town in two weeks’ time, the Lions are ninth on the points table, among a big group of teams who’ll all have hopes of winning in the last round and progressing. After losing captain Marius Louw to injury before kickoff and then Emmanuel Tshituka to injury before 10 minutes were up, the Lions were dealt an even bigger blow when replacement loose forward Ruan Venter was red carded for a dangerous tackle towards the end of the first half.None of these setbacks though seemed to bother the home team.
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