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Van Rooyen laments Lions' missed chances
The Star
|October 14, 2025
LIONS coach Ivan van Rooyen was left ruing missed opportunities after his side's United Rugby Championship loss to Benetton in Treviso, saying the result did not reflect the team's effort or physical dominance.
The South Africans were competitive for large periods of the match but were punished for costly handling mistakes and botched lineouts close to the try line, allowing the Italian outfit to claim a 41-15 win on home soil.
"I think it was a game of huge missed opportunities from our side," Van Rooyen said after the match. "A lot of the phases in the game we felt we were dominant - physically dominant - but we just couldn't convert it all."
Van Rooyen pointed to two tries that came directly from Lions errors, turning promising attacking positions into Benetton scores from long range.
"Two of their tries came directly from a skill error from our side and they ran 70 or 80m to score," he said.
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