The best the Lusitanos<\/a> could manage was a successful penalty goal taken by Domingos Cabral<\/a>, narrowing the Spanish lead to 15 points. However, five minutes before the break, the Portuguese side were reduced to 14 players following a yellow card for their number eight, Jos\u00e9 Monteiro.<\/p>\n The second half kicked off exactly like the first, with the Iberians celebrating in the in-goal area. This time it was South African-born John Wessell Bell who sliced through the Lusitanos defence to extend his side\u2019s lead. The Portuguese problems continued after hooker Enzo Fernandes<\/a> was sent to the sin bin following a high tackle.<\/p>\n The Iberians added two more tries while the opposition effectively played the entire second half a player down, as Guilherme Costa<\/a> and Duarte Nunes<\/a> also spent 10 minutes in the sin bin. Afonso Tapadinhas bagged a Lusitanos consolation before Martiniano Cian<\/a> dotted down the Iberians\u2019 sixth try of the final.<\/p>\n With little left to play for, the Castilla y Le\u00f3n Iberians kicked the ball out to claim the cup after nailing their Iberian rivals 42-17, a positive sign ahead of the upcoming Men\u2019s Rugby Europe Championship.<\/p>\n Estanislao Bay proved too much for the Lusitanos to handle, with the veteran scrum-half delivering a masterclass in game management and relentlessly targeting his opposite number.<\/p>\n For the Lusitanos, it was by far their heaviest defeat against their Iberian rivals and the second time they have failed to lift the Super Cup.<\/p>\n In the bronze final, the Dutch Delta finished on the podium after scoring a late try, pushing their rivals, the Brussels Devils, into fourth place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s Castilla y Le\u00f3n Iberians are the new Super Cup owners, having bested their Portuguese neighbours, the Lusitanos,\u00a042-17…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-435263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435263","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=435263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rugby](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/iberians-Lusitanos-501.jpg.webp.jpg\")
Credit to: Erik den Burger \/ Rugby Shots NL \/ Rugby Europe<\/p>\n