Bulls in top two with nine-try rout over Zebre

03/29/2025 10:54 AM

MATCH REPORT: The Bulls were in a ruthless mood at Loftus Versfeld, beating Zebre 63-24 in the United Rugby Championship Round 14 match on Saturday.

The Pretoria-based franchise put nine tries past the visitors for the impressive win.

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Zak Burger, Stravino Jacobs, Jan-Hendrik Wessels, Marco van Staden, Marcell Coetzee, Harold Vorster, and David Kriel were the other try-scorers.

For Zebre, Jacopo Trulla, Giovanni Montemauri, and Tommaso Di Bartolomeo crossed the line, while the flyhalf Montemauri also added three conversions, and Alessandro Fusco added the drop-goal to the tally.

The result means the Bulls are now second on the URC table with 50 points.

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Man of the match: Our nod goes to Bulls back Keagen Johannes. The 25-year-old showed great maturity at flyhalf, dictating proceedings. He also has a 100 percent conversation rate, kicking 7 from 7 conversions.

The scorers:

For Bulls:
Tries: Petersen 2, Burger, Jacobs, Wessels, Van Staden, Coetzee, Vorster, Kriel
Cons: Johannes 7, Chamerlain 2

For Zebre:
Tries: Trulla, Montemauri, Di Bartolomeo
Cons: Montemauri 3
Drop Goal: Fusco

Yellow card: JF van Heerden (Bulls, 48 - foul play)

Teams:

Bulls: 15 Deon Williams, 14 Sergeal Petersen, 13 David Kriel, 12 Harold Vorster, 11 Stravino Jacobs, 10 Keagan Johannes, 9 Zak Burger, 8 Celimpilo Gumene, 7 Jannes Kirsten, 6 Marcell Coetzee (captain), 5 JF van Heerden, 4 Ruan Vermaak, 3 Mornay Smith, 2 Jan-Hendrik Wessels, 1 Alulutho Tshakweni
Replacements: 16 Simphiwe Matanzima, 17 Akker van der Merwe, 18 Wilco Louw, 19 Ruan Nortje, 20 Marco van Staden, 21 Nizaam Carr, 22 Embrose Papier, 23 Boeta Chamberlain

Zebre: 15 Geronimo Prisciantelli, 14 Jacopo Trulla, 13 Fetuli Paea, 12 Enrico Lucchin, 11 Alessandro Gesi, 10 Giovanni Montemauri, 9 Alessandro Fusco, 8 Davide Ruggeri, 7 Iacopo Bianchi, 6 Guido Volpi, 5 Leonard Krumov, 4 Matteo Canali, 3 Muhamed Hasa, 2 Luca Bigi, 1 Luca Rizzoli
Replacements: 16 Tommaso Di Bartolomeo, 17 Paulo Buonfiglio, 18 Juan Pitinari, 19 Francesco Ruffolo, 20 Bautista Stavile, 21 Ratko Jelic, 22 Giacomo Da Re, 23 Filippo Drago

Referee: Mike Adamson (Scotland)
Assistant referees: Cwengile Jadezweni (South Africa), Sean Muller (South Africa)
TMO: Sam Grove-White (Scotland)

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