Glasgow stun Bulls in Pretoria to win URC final

United Rugby Championship Grand Final

Bulls: (13) 16

Tries: Van Standen Cons: Goosen Pens: Goosen 3

Glasgow Warriors: (7) 21

Tries: Cummings, Turner, Jones Cons: Horne 3

Glasgow Warriors produced a storming second-half show to overpower nan Bulls successful nan United Rugby Championship final.

Trailing 13-0 aft 40 minutes successful Pretoria, Glasgow outscored nan South African broadside 3 tries to one, pinch Scott Cummings, George Turner and Huw Jones rubbing down.

A precocious yellowish paper for Tom Jones offered nan Bulls dream astatine their sold-out location ground, but nan depleted Warriors held patient for a 2nd title success.

The 2015 champions hit Stormers - winners successful 2022 - and nan 2023 winners, Munster, to scope their 4th last since 2014.

But, playing astatine altitude, astir 9,000 miles from home, successful beforehand of a raucous 52,000 fans, fewer gave Glasgow a chance of a first triumph connected South African ungraded successful almost six years.

And nan likelihood looked moreover steeper aft a tense opening from nan visitors.

A punishment conceded from nan opening footwear of nan match, allowed Johan Goosen to sound complete nan first of his 3 penalties.

The Bulls kept coming and Marco van Standen burrowed done to people from a well-worked line-out moments aft Wilco Louw had been held up by Rory Darge.

A surge from Sebastian Cancelliere offered a way backmost but Glasgow skipper Kyle Steyn was stopped a fewer metres out.

Then, pinch nan first-half timepiece successful nan red, Matt Fagerson recovered a spread and Cummings plunged complete from adjacent scope for a important score.

Glasgow were afloat of rumbling menace successful first 10 minutes aft nan interval without troubling nan scoreboard and missed opportunities were punished arsenic Goosen stretched Bulls' lead.

However, Glasgow deed backmost immediately, replacement hooker Turner applying nan finishing touch to a rolling maul from line-out successful his past crippled for nan nine earlier a move to Japan.

Warriors past moved successful beforehand for nan first clip against nan tiring hosts.

Josh McKay made gathering a bouncing shot look easy and Steyn group Jones connected his measurement for a composed score.

The location statement astatine Loftus Versfeld had gone quiet and location was adjacent soundlessness arsenic Jack Dempsey galloped half nan magnitude of nan transportation to get nether nan posts, only for his lung-bursting effort to beryllium ruled retired for a Turner tackle without nan ball.

Glasgow were dominant, though location was much anguish erstwhile a long-range punishment from Horne dropped agonisingly short.

A 78th infinitesimal turnover was celebrated for illustration a try, but nan Warriors' joyousness was short-lived arsenic a reappraisal led to Jordan leaving nan transportation for a precocious hit.

Bulls kicked to touch doubly successful a tense finale, nan crowd roaring them on, but Glasgow recovered nan spot to clasp them astatine bay for a celebrated victory.

More to follow.

Bulls: Williams, Peterson, Kriel, Vorster, Arendse, Goosen, Papier, Steenkamp, Grabbelaar, W Louw, Vermaak, Nortje (capt), Van Staden, E Louw, Hanekom.

Replacements: Van der Merwe, Matanzima, Klopper, Ludwig, Carr, Burger, Smith, Smit.

Glasgow Warriors: McKay, Cancelliere, Jones, Tuipulotu, Steyn (capt), Jordan, Horne; Bhatti, Matthews, Z Fagerson, Cummings, Gray, M Fagerson, Darge, Dempsey.

Replacements: Turner, McBeth, Kebble, Williamson, Ferrie, Venter, Dobie, Weir.