It was the critical moment as the Crusaders<\/a> wrapped up a 32-19 win, with giant prop Tamaiti Williams sealing victory inside the last five minutes.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Reds down Tahs as 'mongrel' sparks all-in scuffle<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Djokovic loses No.1 spot after Dubai loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Greg Norman escalates war tearing golf apart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n It was tough on the Highlanders, who played their part in a compelling contest.<\/p>\n They threw plenty at the Crusaders, especially in the form of big midfielder Fetuli Paea and winger Sam Gilbert.<\/p>\n However, the Crusaders are masters at getting out of difficult situations. As the game progressed, and they rolled on their front-row replacements, their scrum began to dominate, and they also had the luxury of injecting Bridge from the pine.<\/p>\n The Highlanders started with a controlled aggression that rattled the Crusaders, whose discipline was again poor early.<\/p>\n Watch Roger Tuivasa-Sheck's Blues debut and every game of the 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season, streaming ad-free, live and on demand only on Stan Sport.<\/em><\/strong> Sign up for your free seven-day trial<\/em><\/strong><\/a>!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n No.8 Cullen Grace was lucky not to collect a yellow card in the opening minutes for a high shot on Josh Timu as the Highlanders owned the opening 10 minutes.<\/p>\n Grace clearly hit Timu high and was fortunate the incident was not looked at again by the officials.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanSportRugby\/status\/1497118905071976449<\/a><\/p>\n Sam Gilbert then raced in for a clever try from a lineout move that manipulated David Havili defensively, and Jordan was then smashed in a huge double tackle led by All Blacks prop Ethan de Groot and supported by lock Manaaki Selby-Rickit.<\/p>\n Jordan, however, is a hard man to keep out of the game in current form, and he led the Crusaders revival that also reflected young No.10 Fergus Burke's growing influence.<\/p>\n Livewire winger Sevu Reece scored twice after a period of dominance, the second after a lovely set-up by Jordan.<\/p>\n If anyone wants to stop the Crusaders, they'll have to stop the fullback.<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> clicking here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For 66 minutes of the Crusaders-Highlanders game in Dunedin, there was nothing between the teams, with just a solitary point separating the southern rivals. Enter […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199374,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199370\/revisions\/199374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n