On Saturday, Luxembourg's national rugby team defeated Serbia 30-24 at Luxembourg's Stade Josy Barthel to remain at the top of Division 2C in the 2014-16 European Nations Cup.
In the run-up to this match the visitors had recently lost to Slovenia (at home, 33-17), while Luxembourg had overcome Austria in Vienna 34-6 just 3 weeks ago. Luxembourg were top of the 5-team division, with Serbia bottom.
However, the visitors almost turned the form book on its head and took a bonus point after finishing within 7 points of the victors. Leading 23-17 at half-time, Luxembourg gained a bonus point by scoring four tries in total, with two converted, one penalty and one drop-goal. And this was with two players receiving yellow cards. Luxembourg had only conceded 35 points in the previous 5 games, an average of 7 points a game; on Saturday their indiscipline let them down and the visitors scored 3 tries for a total of 24 points and we actually ahead 24-23 for a time in the second half before the home team scored a converted try to seal the victory.
Luxembourg's next game is away to Denmark on 30 April 2016.
Luxembourg team
1 Saman Rezapour (captain)
2 Adam Marcus (yellow card)
3 John Barnard
4 John Fitzpatrick
5 Christian Ohlsen
6 Jean-Baptiste Vert (yellow card)
7 Sean Carroll
8 Thomas Kremmer (try)
9 Will Dennis
10 Maxime Dozin
11 Christopher Rossa (try)
12 James Clarke
13 Yared Katema
14 Adrien Timmermans (2 tries)
15 Ciaran Keane (2 convs, 1 drop goal, 1 pen)
Replacements
16 Yannick Boone
17 Benjamin Blanchett
18 Flavien Grimmer
19 Romain Kimmel
20 Francois Simon
21 William Brown (conv)
18 Philippe Vimond
22 Tertius Barnard
23 Philippe Vimond
Photo by Serge Feltes
