It was a tale of two halves as the Stormers fought back from a half-time deficit to edge Ulster 13-7 in a scrappy URC match on Saturday.
Stormers fullback Warrick Gelant in action during their URC match against Ulster at Cape Town Stadium on Saturday night. Picture: Grant Pitcher/Gallo Images
Despite having their backs against the wall the Stormers had two chances to get on the board with long range penalties in front, only for flyhalf Manie Libbok to pull both shots to the left in the 21Ulster were still the bigger attacking threat, while the Stormers defence held firm as the half wore on, but it was scrappy play from both with a number of handling errors robbing both sides of chances to gain ascendancy.
Malherbe got the better of his former Stormers teammate, earning the penalty dead in front for Libbok to pop it over to make it 7-3. With time ticking away the game was becoming exceedingly frantic with both teams throwing caution to the wind in the closing moments.minute, but chose to go to the corner and were massively rewarded as they set a monster maul and powered over for Roos to score, with Libbok nailing the touchline conversion to put them 10-7 ahead with five minutes to go.
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