Richie Mo'unga runs the ball up for the Crusaders against the Reds. The Super Rugby Aotearoa champions reaffirmed their status as the team to beat in Super Rugby Trans-Tasman with a thunderous 63-28 victory over their fellow 2021 title winners, the Australian champion Reds. As they always do, the Crusaders worked the ball out of their own half with unrivalled confidence and more often than not getting results. The Reds' losing drought to the Crusaders now stretches to 10 years, while the Crusaders continued New Zealand's superb dominance in the formative weeks of the Trans-Tasman competition, with 10 wins from 10. Crusaders 63 (Richie Mo'unga 3, Sevu Reece 2, Cullen Grace, Tamaiti Williams, penalty try, Codie Taylor tries; Mo'unga 8 cons), Reds 28 (Tate McDermott, Harry Wilson, Suliasi Vunivalu, Brandon Paenga-Amosa tries; James O'Connor 4 cons).

Source: Otago Daily Times May 22, 2021 20:26 UTC