Scotland hold off late Australia rally to secure narrow victory

Summary

Scotland 15-12 Australia Fagerson and Dempsey touch down in Murrayfiield After the pyrotechnics in Paris on Friday and a wondrous Welsh win in Cardiff on Saturday, this was a much more prosaic affair. Not that the stakes were low: both teams badly needed a positive result and Gregor Townsend’s side got one by dealing with the quintessentially Scottish conditions better than their opponents. Scotland could scarcely afford another patchy performance like last weekend, when they excelled in the first half against New Zealand before capitulating in the second. They ultimately edged across the…

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