Madrid ends Valladolid's hegemony
Sun, 04 May 2008 13:16
On the charge
Bwin Pozuelo Boadilla CRC Madrid are the new holders of the Copa de SM El Rey after beating El Salvador of Valladolid 36-31 in the exciting Final in Madrid.
For the winners Samoan flyhalf Douglas Sanft scored 21 points.
The defeat ended a great passage of victories by El Salvador who stood to win all three Spanish trophies for the third year in a row after winning the league and the Supercopa already. This is the first time the Madrileños, a club founded only in 2002, has won a major trophy.
Sanft opened the scoring for CRC Madrid with a penalty, but El Salvador replied with a try by Oscar Bonito. Sanft kicked another penalty and then Portuguese Diogo Saldaña scored a try and the Madrid side led 13-7.
The Italo-Argentinian wing Tomás Browner scored a try but again CRC Madrid was able to go ahead at 20-12. But in the seesaw of the match El Salvador came back through a try by Nuno Da Cunha after the visitors mauled well. 20-17.
After Sanft had scored first in the second half, Spain's fullback César Sempere scored a try and the lead was now 30-17.
Anthony Bradsahw scored. 30-24 and the tension grew. Madrid lost González and Girão to the sin bin and Sanft goaled two more penalties. 36-24. In the very last minute of the match Sergio Souto scored a try to make it 36-31 but there was no time for more and a chance for the titleholders to keep their title.
Scorers:
For CRC Madrid::
Tries: Saldanha, Sempere 2
Cons: Sanft 3
Pens: Sanft 5
For El Salvador:
Tries: Benito, Browner, Bradshaw, Sergio Souto
Cons: Turrión 4
Teams:
El Salvador: 15 Luke Stanley, 14 Tomás Browner, 13 José Maria Revilla, 12 Raúl Turrión, 11 Luis Gascón, 10 Anthony
Bradshaw, 9 Daniel Hunter, 8 Iván Criado, 7 Asís García, 6 Alfonso Mata, 5 Sergio Souto, 4 Óscar Benito, 3 I Lewis, 2 Manu Serrano, 1 Jon Insausti, 2 César Caballero, ’49),
Replacements: 16 Daniel Marrón, 17 Miranda, 18 Manu Serrano,9 Fernando Suárez, 20 Francisco Cariacedo, 21 Jorge Molina, 22 Alejandro Müller
CRC Madrid: 15 César Sempere, 14 Jorge Prieto, 13 Diogo Saldaña, 12 Javier Canosa, 11 Matías Tudela, 10 Douglas Sanft, 9 Eusebio Quevedo, 8 Tiago Girão, 7 Juan González, 6 Víctor Gómez, 5 Terence Otineru, 4 Diego Pérez, 3 Javier Salazar, 2 Nuno Da Cunha, 1 Alejandro Onega,
Replacements: 16 Rubén Torres, 17 Javier Redondo, 18 Guillermo Blanco, 19 Iñigo Solé, 20 Marton Darby, 21 Juan Cano, 22 Manuel Olivares
Referee: José Bogas
(Cataluña)
Touch judges: Felix Villegas (Castilla y León), Joan Montoya (País Vasco)
