Glasgow Warriors winning five points away from home with 13 men is something worth celebrating

Glasgow Warriors centre Nick Grigg makes a break to set up a try for the unseen Jamie Dobie. Picture: David Gibson/Fotosport/Shutterstock

Midway through this Pro14 match in Parma, a difficult season for Glasgow was on the verge of getting a whole lot worse. Down 17-10 at the break, and with Sam Johnson already in the sinbin, they lost Ollie Smith to a yellow card as well – the second time in a week they had played part of a match with 13 men.

But, while Zebre did stretch their lead to 20-10 with a penalty at that point, that was as good as it got for the home team as the Warriors took a grip on the game, going on to win 31-20. The character shown by the whole side was important, but the catalyst for their recovery was the arrival off the bench of Nick Grigg, who laid on one try and scored another as Glasgow ended up with a bonus-point win.

“It’s five points away from home in a season where we haven’t had many of those,” Warriors coach Danny Wilson said. “First half we left three tries out there where we should be away from them, and maybe a slightly more confident Glasgow Warriors would finish those opportunities off and get away from them by half-time. But that wasn’t the case, and all of a sudden our discipline let us down a little but.