Lions is also the least trendy of the South African facets, however they led 13-12 at half-time regardless of a yellow card.

They arrived in Newport unbeaten, then wins over Ulster and Edinburgh, and struck first thru Horn of their opening away sport of the season.

Dragons recalled Leon Brown, Rodrigo Martinez, Keddie, Joe Westwood and Ewan Rosser, a past due alternative for his brother Jared, and all have been within the thick of the motion.

Keddie intercepted Steyn’s move and galloped 70 metres upfield, out-sprinting the fly-half, to degree the rankings.

Westwood was once amongst many to have the benefit of the dealing with talents of Owen however was once additionally amongst the ones to blame of losing possibilities through coughing up ownership.

It was once from Owen’s half-break that Lions hooker Franco Marais was once sin-binned for kicking the ball out of Rhodri Williams’ palms.

And simply seconds next, Dragons capitalised with a riding maul completed through Basham, scoring for the second one sport in a row.

Basham and Martinez each conceded consequences – harshly in Martinez’s case – to offer Lions the narrowest of leads on the destroy which was once burnt up inside of moments of the restart.

Rosser earned a penalty from which Ben Carter and Lewis-Hughes edged related, earlier than Basham confirmed actual power to get thru a society of legs to attain once more.

However once more self-discipline and a few desperately drained tackling undermined Dragons, with no win over South African opposition for greater than 4 years.

Alternative fly-half Nohamba kicked 3 issues earlier than flanker Cairns swatted off Westwood and stepped out of Angus O’Brien’s take on to attain Lions’ a very powerful 2nd effort.

Dragons professor Dai Flanagan recognised the wish to clean up and drafted on 5 replacements within the field of a couple of mins, together with prop Cameron Jones for his debut.

However Reed’s effort to related the space to some extent was once as related as Dragons got here past due on as Lions, who’ve handiest misplaced two of 13 conferences with Welsh groups, closed out a scoreless ultimate 30 minutes.