{"id":510222,"date":"2026-02-28T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510222\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:49:08","slug":"connacht-leave-it-late-to-upset-urc-table-toppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510222\/","title":{"rendered":"Connacht leave it late to upset URC table toppers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>mens<\/p>\n<p>united-rugby-championship<\/p>\n<p>    Galway , Ireland &#8211; 28 February 2026; Connacht supporters celebrate as Sean Jansen of Connacht, bottom, scores their side&#8217;s second try during the United Rugby Championship match between Connacht and Glasgow Warriors at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. (Photo By Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile via Getty Images) <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"expand\" src=\"https:\/\/eu-cdn.rugbypass.com\/images\/common-svg\/select-arrow.svg\" height=\"6\" width=\"11\"\/>      https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/united-rugby-championship-reports-7\/    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/connacht\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connacht<\/a> scored two late tries to upset <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/united-rugby-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Rugby Championship<\/a> leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/glasgow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Glasgow<\/a> Warriors 15-10 in Galway.<\/p>\n<p>Defences were on top in the opening hour with the only points being a penalty from Connacht\u2019s Sam Gilbert.<\/p>\n<p>The game swung Glasgow\u2019s way after 58 minutes when home second-row forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/joe-joyce\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Joyce<\/a> was sent to the sin bin.<\/p>\n<p>Glasgow made the most of their numerical advantage three minutes later as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/kyle-rowe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Rowe<\/a> dotted down from Dan Lancaster\u2019s pass.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Rowe scampered over again seven minutes later after collecting Lancaster\u2019s kick and beating home defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Connacht levelled matters six minutes from time when Gilbert converted Josh Murphy\u2019s try, and the Irish province kept alive their hopes of a top-eight finish as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/sean-jansen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Jansen<\/a> scored a dramatic stoppage-time try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"mens united-rugby-championship Galway , Ireland &#8211; 28 February 2026; Connacht supporters celebrate as Sean Jansen of Connacht, bottom,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-510222","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\/510222","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=510222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}