Scots end autumn with statement win over Australia

Autumn Nations Series: Scotland v Australia

Scotland (7) 27

Tries: Tuipulotu, Van der Merwe, Bayliss, Russell Pens: Russell Cons: Russell 2

Australia (3) 13

Tries: Potter Pens: Lolesio 2 Cons: Donaldson

Scotland scored 3 second-half tries to gain a connection Autumn Nations Series triumph against Australia astatine a heaving Murrayfield.

Wallabies fly-half Noah Lolesio enactment the visitors ahead, but Scotland led 7-3 astatine the interruption with Sione Tuipulotu smashing implicit for a effort and Finn Russell adding a penalty.

Gregor Townsend’s squad upped the ante successful a large mode aft the break. Duhan van der Merwe scored a cracker, thereby putting himself backmost connected apical of Scotland’s all-time effort scoring chart.

Substitute back-row Josh Bayliss finished marvellously aft a sweeping determination and helium was followed implicit the try-line 4 minutes aboriginal by the large orchestrator, Russell.

Harry Potter narrowed the spread astatine the extremity for the Wallabies, but it was done by past and Scotland could bespeak connected an autumn successful which they person won 3 of their 4 games aft victories implicit Fiji and Portugal and decision against South Africa.

Scotland took a portion to get going, but erstwhile they got connected apical they ne'er looked back. Jamie Ritchie and Grant Gilchrist were standouts successful a fantastic guardant effort which laid the groundwork for the backs to airy up Murrayfield.

The Wallabies dominated aboriginal connected without ever getting a full batch of alteration retired of the Scottish defence.

The 3 points they got, from Lolesio penalty, was a disappointing instrumentality from each that territory. Scotland sang the aforesaid tune thereafter erstwhile failing to marque the astir of their tract position.

Russell missed a punishment successful beforehand of the posts to gully Scotland level, but they deed the beforehand a infinitesimal aboriginal erstwhile their execution from a close-range lineout was precise.

Ewan Ashman went retired the backmost to Tuipulotu, who came thundering connected to it and blasted done Andrew Kellaway and Len Ikitau to score. Russell converted and Scotland led 7-3.

Scotland became forceful successful the aftermath of the try, but similar the Wallabies earlier them, they couldn’t marque the astir of their attacking vengeance.

In the midst of it, the wonderment lad Joseph Suaalii smashed Tuipulotu successful the tackle, but invalided himself retired of the crippled arsenic a consequence. The young antheral near the tract with a twisted wrist and a look of thunder.

Australia had been nether the cosh for 7 oregon 8 minutes but hadn’t conceded and went into the interruption 7-3 down.

They were successful occupation again aboriginal successful the caller fractional erstwhile Scotland had an attacking lineout 7 metres from the visitors’ line, but Ashman’s propulsion went severely awry.

The respite was brief. Scotland came to life, They attacked again, worked the Wallabies right, and past attacked near done Russell, Kinghorn and past Van der Merwe.

The helping had been anonymous but that’s the happening with Van der Merwe. You can’t springiness him abstraction for a second. Over helium went and Russell added a fantastic conversion to marque it 17-6.

Scotland kept the vigor on, surviving a Max Jorgensen-inspired breakaway acknowledgment to a superb betterment from Tuipulotu, earlier scoring the effort that efficaciously won it.

It was a happening of wonder. Huw Jones wriggled done postulation and got it to Darcy Graham, who stepped, slithered and scarpered distant from the Wallabies.

Bayliss was moving enactment connected the close wing, but erstwhile helium got it helium inactive had a upland of enactment to bash and 3 Wallabies to negotiate. No sweat. The backmost enactment blasted connected and finished magnificently.

Scotland had breached the Wallabies, who were opening to descent disconnected tackles portion struggling horribly to unrecorded with the tempo.

Four minutes aft Bayliss scored, determination was much excellence from Scotland.

Van der Merwe broke a tackle and gave an wrong shot to Kinghorn, who fed the outstanding Russell. The fly-half went implicit and the pb stretched to a barely-believable 21 points.

Potter’s superb decorativeness towards the extremity gave the Wallabies immoderate bosom but it was ne'er going to support their hopes of an autumn expansive slam alive.

That had been trampled underfoot by Scotland’s second-half powerhouse performance.

Scotland: Kinghorn, Graham, Jones, Tuipulotu (c), Van der Merwe; Russell, White; Schoeman, Ashman, Z Fagerson, Gilchrist, Cummings, Ritchie, Darge, M Fagerson.

Replacements: Richarsdson, Sutherland, Hurd, Craig, Bayliss, Horne, Rowe, Jordan.

Australia: Wright, Kellaway, Suaalii, Ikitau, Potter; Lolesio, Gordon; Bell, Faessler, Alaalatoa, Salakaia-Loto, Skelton, Valetini, Tizzano, Wilson (c).

Replacements: Paenga-Amosa, Kailea, Nonggorr, Frost, Gleeson, McDermott, Donaldson, Jorgensen.