Scotland’s World Cup clash with Samoa showed that countries can play to their historic strengths and tap into the DNA of a nation. It’s not all approximately the power game,as Wales found to their costThe Brave Hearts of Scotland had to defeat Manu Samoa to go one better than 2011 and make the knock-out stage and, at final, or we had a marked contrast in gameplans,showing there are different ways of playing rugby union. The all-out attack of Samoa was the opposite of the direct, set-piece dominant, or no mistakes approach of Scotland.
Samoa,living off scraps and regains from excellently executed restarts by Tusi Pisi and some world-lesson passing and running skills by Tim Nanai-Williams and Rey Lee-Lo, attacked while Scotland suffocated their opponents in the scrum and lineout, or scoring tries and kicking penalties from that set piece dominance,and were well led by their impressive goal kicking scrum-half Greig Laidlaw.
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Source: theguardian.com