{"id":274628,"date":"2026-02-01T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274628\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:38:07","slug":"bell-scores-sensational-solo-try-as-ulster-beat-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274628\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell scores sensational solo try as Ulster beat Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angus Bell stole the show with a sensational solo try as Ulster ground out a 21-14 United Rugby Championship victory over Cardiff at a freezing Affidea Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Wilson dotted down underneath the posts, with Jack Murphy adding the extras, before Bell scored his first Ulster try by shrugging off a couple of challenges and showing fleet footwork to ghost past Cam Winnett to touch down.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Murphy added the extras to both tries to put Ulster 14-0 ahead at the interval but Yohan Mulder&#8217;s converted score halved the deficit to give Cardiff hope of a second-half comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Irvine, though, scampered over and Murphy once again split the posts with his kick to restore Ulster\u2019s 14-point cushion.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff were in no mood to throw in the towel and Steffan Emanuel crashed down and Callum Sheedy put the visitors back within a converted score with 12 minutes left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/rugby\/united-rugby-championship\/26622\/report-4792567\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL MATCH DETAILS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite some late Cardiff pressure, Ulster clung on and leapt above their opponents in the URC standings into fourth, eight points off leaders Glasgow, who have played a game more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angus Bell stole the show with a sensational solo try as Ulster ground out a 21-14 United Rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-274628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274628","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=274628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}