Scotland (14) 14<\/p>\n
Tries: Gallagher 2 Cons: Nelson 2 <\/p>\n
New Zealand (38) 66<\/p>\n
Tries: Palu, Vaipulu, McGregor, King, Sae 2, Du Plessis, Sititi, Turner, Saili Cons: Sorensen-McGree 7, King<\/p>\n
Scotland suffered a second successive defeat in the WXV Global Series as New Zealand ran out comfortable winners at Hive Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Black Ferns ran in 10 tries while the Scots struggled to contain the number two ranked team in the world.<\/p>\n
New Zealand took no time at all to exert their dominance, punching holes in the Scottish defence before powerful prop Mo’omo’oga Palu blasted through to score.<\/p>\n
The Black Ferns set a tempo the Scots could just not live with, and another foray into the Scottish 22 resulted in a neat finish from lock Maama Mo’onia Vaipulu for the second try.<\/p>\n
Chloe Rollie picked off an intercept to get Scotland down the pitch and force a penalty, and from the resulting line-out the ball was shipped to Evie Gallagher to crash over.<\/p>\n
The visitors reasserted their authority with tries from Justine McGregor and Elinor-Plum King, but the Scots showed some guts to fashion another close-range try for Gallagher to keep them in the game at 24-14.<\/p>\n
However, their defensive frailties were exposed as Layla Sae and Amy Du Plessis struck with superb tries to effectively end the game as a contest before half-time.<\/p>\n
It bore many of the hallmarks of last weekend’s defeat by Canada, with the Scots conceding immediately any time they looked to have found a way back into the match.<\/p>\n
The visitors put their foot on the gas after the break with substitute Amarante Sititi and Tara Turner going over before Sae added her second try, New Zealand’s ninth.<\/p>\n
To their credit, the Scots kept the Black Ferns scoreless from the 47th minute until the final play when Alena Saili crossed for New Zealand’s 10th try to round off a dominant display.<\/p>\n
Next up for Scotland is Australia back at Hive Stadium next Saturday (16:10), while New Zealand will head south to face England on the same day (15:00).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland (14) 14 Tries: Gallagher 2 Cons: Nelson 2 New Zealand (38) 66 Tries: Palu, Vaipulu, McGregor, King,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}