{"id":315217,"date":"2025-11-28T22:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/315217\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T22:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:43:12","slug":"ulster-scream-home-over-benetton-as-snyman-seals-leinster-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/315217\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster scream home over Benetton as Snyman seals Leinster victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Wales , United Kingdom – 28 November 2025; Joshua Kenny of Leinster celebrates after scoring his second, and his side’s third try, during the United Rugby Championship match between Dragons and Leinster at Rodney Parade in Newport, Wales. (Photo By Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile via Getty Images) https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/united-rugby-championship-reports-3\/ <\/p>\n

ULSTER DOMINATE SECOND HALF TO THRASH BENETTON<\/p>\n

Ulster<\/a> peeled off 35 unanswered second-half points as they turned a slender deficit at the break into a comprehensive 47-13 victory over Benetton.<\/p>\n

Seeking to get back to winning ways after losing at the Lions<\/a> before the international break, Ulster went ahead through Robert Baloucoune<\/a> and Werner Kok<\/a> tries, with the latter converted.<\/p>\n

They trailed 13-12 at the break as Bautista Bernasconi<\/a> touched down and Jacob Umaga<\/a> added the extras before the Benetton<\/a> fly-half also split the posts with two penalties in the first half at the Affidea Stadium.<\/p>\n

However, James Hume\u2019s converted try restored Ulster\u2019s lead, and it was one-way traffic from then on.<\/p>\n

Kok and Baloucoune both claimed their second scores of the night, sandwiched by a penalty try and Harry Sheridan<\/a> dotting down, as Ulster claimed an impressive bonus-point victory.<\/p>\n

Ulster\u2019s fourth win in five matches moves them up to third in the table, while Benetton remain 10th after a fourth defeat in six outings.<\/p>\n

Points Flow Chart <\/p>\n

Ulster win +34<\/p>\n

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Time in lead<\/p>\n

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76%<\/p>\n

% Of Game In Lead<\/p>\n

13%<\/p>\n

50%<\/p>\n

Possession Last 10 min<\/p>\n

50%<\/p>\n

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LEINSTER RALLY TO SEE OFF STRUGGLING DRAGONS<\/p>\n

Dragons are still awaiting their first win of the United Rugby Championship<\/a> season after Leinster<\/a> hit back from 7-5 down at half-time to triumph 24-10 at Rodney Parade.<\/p>\n

Alex Soroka touched down early on to put the visitors in front but they were briefly reduced to 14 men on the half hour when Diarmuid Mangan<\/a> was sent to the sin bin for repeated infractions.<\/p>\n

Matthew Screech made sure the Dragons capitalised on their man advantage as he burrowed over under the posts after persistent pressure, with Tinus de Beer adding the extras to give the home side the lead.<\/p>\n

Leinster then spent a few minutes with just 13 players on the field as Scott Penny<\/a> was yellow-carded but they hit back in the second half thanks to a double in the corner from Josh Kelly.<\/p>\n

Angus O\u2019Brien\u2019s penalty made sure Dragons were just a converted score away, but RG Snyman\u2019s breakaway score two minutes from time secured a bonus-point victory for Leinster.<\/p>\n

Luke McGrath became the third Leinster player to be sent to the bin late on, but it had no consequence on the result as Dragons crashed to a fourth defeat of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"mens united-rugby-championship Wales , United Kingdom – 28 November 2025; Joshua Kenny of Leinster celebrates after scoring his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-315217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}