Lions ................15
Bulls ................31
It was a case of a different season, but the same problems for the Lions as they were beaten by the Bulls at Ellis Park to open their URC campaign.
The Lions could be excused for the fact that the game was a season starter, but they exhibited the same kind of stage fright that hamstrung them in South African derbies last term while the Bulls did the right things at the right times to keep the Lions at bay.
When Marcell Coetzee burrowed his way over in the fourth minute, the Lions were shell-shocked.
While Jordan Hendrikse’s ninth-minute penal...