Drafting Sports, May 4 (EFE) .- The victory against Argentina (28-0) in the second match of this Sunday day of the Los Angeles Tournament, after losing to Brazil (5-14) at the close of the group stage, has allowed the Spanish Spanish team of Rugby 7 to promote the second category of world series.
The first opportunity of Spain to ensure its place in this new second division of the international circuit was in front of Brazil in the duel that discerned the leadership of Group A, a party in which it was noticed how much at stake and that, by the mishandling of the oval of both attacks, went to rest with an unusual zero draw.
The Brazilians advanced with a play that have repeated a thousand times without their rivals to avoid it: an attack in the first phase from a melé that left him many meters to maneuver Thalia Costa, his lethal weapon, who overflowed the entire Spanish defense and scored between sticks.
Spain believed to tie two minutes to the end through Carmen Miranda, but the Crealia El Salvador player dropped the ball before posing it and the South Americans sentenced with a hundred meters away, after Yasmin Soares caught behind the back of the ‘leonas’ a crash kick by Raquel Kochhann.
With the clock already to zero, Denisse Gortazar inaugurated El Tanteo of Spain, to which the defeat (5-14) focused on playing his permanence in the circuit to a match against Argentina, third classified of Group B.
The ‘Yaguaretés’ were not rivals for the national team, which marked in the first play of the game, at the end of a long sequence of possession of almost a minute and a half during which the oval flew from band to band three times until Marta Fresno posed it after the test line.
Without the need to get out of a basic scheme -firmeza in defense and rapid exploitation of the stolen balls-, Spain confined the Argentines in their own twenty-two zone throughout the first half, in which the clash opted definitively with marks of the experienced María García Gala and Anne Fernández de Corres (21-0).
The second half, without any suspense, was more dazzled and the ‘lions’ just let the clock run to ensure a triumph underpinned by a new essay by Denisse Gortazar (28-0).
The two group champions, China and Brazil, as well as Kenya, who won South Africa (17-14) in the other playoff, also secured their presence next season in the Second Division of the World Series, whose last two participants will leave the various continental tournaments. EFE
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