Force's 'incredible' clutch win with just 13 men

Bryce Hegarty kicked the winning punishment aft the fulltime siren to springiness the 13 antheral Western Force a singular 21-18 triumph implicit the Moana Pasifika successful Perth connected Saturday.

Ollie Callan was reddish carded successful the 73rd infinitesimal and Siosifa Amone was handed a yellowish successful the 76th successful what could person been crushing blows to the location team's hopes.

But with scores level, the gutsy Force were capable to triumph 2 precocious penalties - the archetypal of which Hegarty missed from agelong scope successful the 79th minutes.

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Santiago Medrano, Tom Robertson and Toni Pulu of the Force observe winning. (Getty)

But the seasoned past landed a overmuch simpler effort aft the Force had won a scrum punishment - arsenic caller manager Simon Cron celebrated with immoderate vigorous archetypal pumping.

The present 1-2 Force had been humiliated 71-20 by the Queensland Reds past weekend.

"I don't deliberation they'll judge it," Morgan Turinui said connected Stan Sport's coverage.

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"That's an unthinkable effort," added Wallabies adjunct manager Dan McKellar.

The teams scored 2 tries apiece astatine HBF Park.

"It is significant, due to the fact that sometimes winning disfigured is astir winning," Cron said.

"The combat the boys showed was truly positive. The country they volition find hard to ticker is the opportunities we did make and past gave them the shot back."

On the flipside it was heartbreak for Moana, who led for astir of the lucifer and stay winless successful 2023.

"It's 1 we fto slip," Moana manager Aaron Mauger said.

"We've got to beryllium amended successful those moments. We couldn't execute our basics. It's hard to play erstwhile you're not catching the ball."

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