Bright Spanish win
The young Spanish Leones surprised Namibia with a 33-20 win in Estadio Principes in Palma, Mallorca on Saturday afternoon.
Namibia are going to the 2011 World Cup; Spain are not. The Saturday before the touring Namibians lost to Portugal who are also not going to the World Cup.
Namibia were without their captain Jacques Burger, who is a star for Saracens while the Spaniards had very few caps in their who side. The whole Spanish side had a total of 93 caps, of whine two players total 55 caps.
Spain had a great first half, scoring 24 of their 33 points, though at one stage Namibia had fought back to 10-8.
Mathieu Peluchon opened the scoring with a penalty and by half-time Spain were ahead 24-8. Their only points in the second half were three penalty gaols while the Biltongboere got two tries, helped by the sin-binning of Sebastián Rouet just before half-time and then Federico Negrillo in the second half.
Scorers:
For Spain:
Tries: Heredia, Guiboiun, Peluchon
Cons: Peluchon 3
Pens: Peluchon 4
For Namibia:
Tries: Marais, Botha, Kristoff
Con: Botha
Pen: Sergio de la Harpe
Teams
Spain: 15 Mathieu Peluchon, 14 Diego Álvarez Gorosito, 13 Javier Canosa, 12 Bruno Angulo, 11 Sergi Aubanell, 10 Martín Heredia, 9 Sebastián Rouet, 8 Matthew Cook, 7 Martín Aceña (captain), 6 Gautier Gibouin, 5 Federico Negrillo, 4 Jesús Recuerda, 3 Jesús Moreno, 2 Beñat Auzqui, 1 Ion Insausti.
Replacements: 16 Rodrigo Martínez, 17 Stephan Vitalla, 18 Víctor Acevedo, , 19 Alejandro Ortega, 20 Hernán Quirelli, 21 Andoni Jorajuria, 22 Remi Delgado
Namibia: 15 Chrysander Botha, 14 Sergio de La Harpe, 13 Piet van Zyl, 12 Darrel de la Harpe, 11 Conrad Marais, 10 Godwin Walters, 9 Eugene Jantjes, 8 Pieter-Jan van Lill, 7 Tinus du Plessis, 6 Jacques Nieuweinhuis, 5 Nico Esterhuyse, 4 Heinz Koll, 3 Marius Visser, 2 Bertus O’Callaghan, 1 Johnny Redelinghuys.
Replacements: 16 Shaun Esterhuyzen, 17 Jané du Toit, 18 Casper Viviers, 19 Morné Blom, 20 Rohan Kitsoff, 21 Colin de Koe, 22 Adriaan du Plessis
Referee: João Mourinha (Portugal)
Assistant referees: Igotz Gallastegi (Spain), Pedro Montoya (Spain).
