{"id":165106,"date":"2025-11-29T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/165106\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T00:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:08:07","slug":"ulster-turn-on-jets-after-break-to-burn-off-benetton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/165106\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster turn on jets after break to burn off Benetton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ulster 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<p>Seeking to get back to winning ways after losing at the Lions before the international break, Ulster went ahead through Robert Baloucoune and Werner Kok tries, with the latter converted.<\/p>\n<p>They trailed 13-12 at the break as Bautista Bernasconi touched down and Jacob Umaga added the extras before the Benetton fly-half also splitting the posts with two penalties in the first half at the Affidea Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>However, James Hume&#8217;s converted try restored Ulster\u2019s lead and it was one-way traffic from then on.<\/p>\n<p>Kok and Baloucoune both claimed their second scores of the night, sandwiched by a penalty try and Harry Sheridan dotting down, as Ulster claimed an impressive bonus-point victory.<\/p>\n<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster peeled off 35 unanswered second-half points as they turned a slender deficit at the break into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-165106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}