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Scarlets stored their end-of-season play-off hopes alive with a 38-22 bonus-point win over Ospreys in a pulsating Welsh derby.
The victory didn’t look probably after they trailed 17-0 after solely 14 minutes, however two yellow playing cards in fast succession heralded an Ospreys collapse because the guests conceded 38 unanswered factors.
Blair Murray, Vaea Fifita, Joe Roberts, Eddie James and Taine Plumtree scored Scarlets’ tries. There was additionally a penalty attempt award, with Ioan Lloyd including three conversions.
Morgan Morris, Iestyn Hopkins and Dan Edwards crossed for Ospreys, with Edwards kicking two conversions and a penalty.
Scarlets made an terrible begin, with two fundamental errors gifting their opponents a attempt throughout the first minute.
Ellis Mee failed to collect the kick-off and, from the resulting line-out, Alex Craig misplaced possession within the in-goal space for Morris to dive on the ball and rating.
Edwards transformed and added a penalty earlier than Scarlets conceded a second attempt.
Ospreys broke from inside their very own half earlier than Hopkins kicked forward, with the full-back available to benefit from Lloyd’s failure to smell out the hazard.
Scarlets badly wanted a lift and it got here with a attempt from Murray after their pack had exerted their first interval of stress.
Murray’s attempt was the catalyst for his aspect to dominate the second quarter they usually turned the sport on its head, with Ospreys having two gamers sin-binned and conceding two tries.
George McGuigan was first to go for repeated workforce offences, with the guests collapsing the driving line-out to end in a penalty try to a yellow card for Kieran Hardy.
Fifita, on his fiftieth look for the area, quickly added a second attempt to deliver the scores stage at 17-17 on the interval.
4 minutes after the restart a flowing transfer noticed Roberts put Scarlets in entrance for the primary time earlier than Ospreys returned to their full complement.
It made no distinction as the house aspect quickly prolonged their lead when James took benefit of a beneficial bounce from a well-judged cross-field kick from Lloyd.
Scarlets sealed victory when a burst from Sam Lousi arrange an opportunity for Plumtree earlier than house skipper Josh Macleod picked up a late yellow card to permit Edwards to have the ultimate say with a splendid particular person attempt.
