Scotland v Russia

Date:

Venue: Shizuoka Stadium Ecopa, Shizuoka

Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)

Attendance: 44,123

Scotland v Russia Match Reports

A ruthless Scotland scored nine tries as they comprehensively beat Russia 61-0 in Shizuoka. Fly-half Adam Hastings grabbed a brace of early tries, whilst scrum-half George Horne scored a hat-trick, as Scotland made an emphatic statement ahead of their Pool A crunch match against Japan on Sunday. A selection of match reports is listed below:

Scotland v Russia - Match Highlights

Scotland v Russia - Match Stats

Scotland: (21) 61
Try: Hastings (14', 18'), G Horne (22', 45', 59'), Turner (51'), Seymour (56'), Barclay (75'), McInally (78')
Conversion: Hastings (15', 20', 24', 46', 53', 57', 76', 79')

Russia: (0) 0

Man of the match: Adam Hastings (Scotland)


Scotland v Russia - Team Line-ups

Scotland Team

Forwards

  • 1 Gordon Reid
  • 2 George Turner
  • 3 Zander Fagerson
  • 4 Scott Cummings
  • 5 Ben Toolis
  • 6 John Barclay (Captain)
  • 7 Fraser Brown
  • 8 Ryan Wilson

Backs

  • 9 George Horne
  • 10 Adam Hastings
  • 11 Darcy Graham
  • 12 Pete Horne
  • 13 Duncan Taylor
  • 14 Tommy Seymour
  • 15 Blair Kinghorn

Replacements

  • 16 Stuart McInally
  • 17 Simon Berghan
  • 18 Willem Nel
  • 19 Grant Gilchrist
  • 20 Magnus Bradbury
  • 21 Jamie Ritchie
  • 22 Henry Pyrgos
  • 23 Chris Harris

Russia Team

Forwards

  • 1 Valery Morozov
  • 2 Stanislav Selskii
  • 3 Kirill Gotovtsev
  • 4 Andrey Ostrikov
  • 5 Evgeny Elgin
  • 6 Vitaly Zhivatov
  • 7 Tagir Gadzhiev
  • 8 Nikita Vavilin

Backs

  • 9 Dmitry Perov
  • 10 Ramil Gaisin
  • 11 Vladislav Sozonov
  • 12 Dmitry Gerasimov
  • 13 Vladimir Ostroushko
  • 14 German Davydov
  • 15 Vasily Artemyev (Captain)

Replacements

  • 16 Sergey Chernyshev
  • 17 Azamat Bitiev
  • 18 Vladimir Podrezov
  • 19 Bogdan Fedotko
  • 20 Andrey Garbuzov
  • 21 Sergey Ianiushkin
  • 22 Anton Sychev
  • 23 Yury Kushnarev