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MATCH PREVIEW: LEGION LOOK TO SECURE PLAYOFF BERTH WITH WIN IN UTAH

SALT LAKE CITY – The San Diego Legion will take their first-place record on the road to Utah for a battle with the Warriors on Saturday evening.

Saturday evening’s match against the seventh place Warriors (2-10-1) will be the Legion’s (10-3-1) fourth away match in as many weeks and will also be their final away match of the regular season. It will not be one that the Legion can afford to take lightly.

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With only two matches remaining in the Legion’s regular season, the playoff race is still wide open. A victory on Saturday is extremely important for San Diego to inch one step closer to locking up a playoff spot and also maintaining their place atop the Major League Rugby table. If the Legion can hang onto one of the top two spots in the standings, they’ll host a playoff match at Torero Stadium.

Saturday evening will be no walk in the park for the Legion. The Warriors have shown dangerous flashes of potential at several different times throughout the season but have wound up on the wrong side of some extremely close matches. Three of their losses have been decided by two points and two of them came against playoff hopefuls in NOLA Gold and Rugby United New York. The Legion can expect to receive Utah’s best effort on their home pitch.
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San Diego will enter the match on a high after scraping out an extremely tough 26-19 victory over the league-leading Gold in the Louisiana heat last Saturday. The Legion received contributions from both their key contributors like Nick Boyer, JP du Plessis, and Save Totovosau, and bench players like Tai Enosa, who scored the deciding try, to pick up the gritty victory.

They’ll have to use a similar formula to get the job done again on Saturday. Utah captain Tim O’Malley can put up points. He ranks sixth in the MLR in total points scored with 104, fourth in penalty goals with 13, and fifth in conversions with 30. Players like wing Tonata Lauti have broken off electrifying tries at various points throughout the last two seasons. They also have a tackling machine in the forward pack in the form of Lance Williams.

The Legion will use their high-powered offense to exploit a Warriors defense that has conceded the most points (428) in the MLR this season. One of San Diego’s most dangerous offensive weapons remains fullback Mikey Te’o, who tacked on another try assist in the victory over the Gold last week to give him seven on the season, three behind league leader John Ryberg of the Glendale Raptors.
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Saturday’s match will kick off at 6 PM PT and will be broadcast locally on the CW San Diego and available to stream on ESPN+. International viewers can watch the match on our Facebook page.

There will be an Official Viewing Party at The Lumberyard Tavern. The party starts at 5:00 PM with Food and Drink specials as well as SD Legion raffles and swag giveaways. Come join us for all of the fun, we will see you there!

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Posted by Brett Vergou on

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