Sam Johnson has won the Guinness Six Nations Try of Round 4 for his finish in the corner of a brilliantly worked team try in Scotland’s win over Italy in Rome.
Johnson scored Scotland’s first try of five in a successful afternoon in Rome, as they recovered from defeats to Wales and France in Round 2 and 3.
Italy’s defence had been impressive in the opening 15 minutes, and it seemed like it was going to take something special to breach the hosts, which was exactly what Scotland put together to score their first try.
Stuart Hogg got up to halfway before finding hooker George Turner who broke through the tackle of Callum Braley and powered on to just outside the 22 to put Scotland firmly on the front foot.
His pass inside to Ali Price allowed the scrum-half to advance deep into the Italian 22, before being tackled, as Hogg got taken out by Price and was unable to help out his teammate.
Darcy Graham was on hand though, and he picked up the loose ball, found Finn Russell, who supplied a simply perfect pass out wide to Johnson, who finished in the corner with aplomb to break the resolute Italian defence.
The public vote decided the winner of this award, and it was to be Johnson who was crowned the winner, claiming 37% of the votes.
Ireland’s Jack Conan was second in the voting, with 27% of the votes seeing him finish second, while in third place was Braley who himself scored a try to remember in the same match as Johnson’s spectacular score.
Anthony Jelonch finished fourth with 17% of the votes for his try against Wales in Cardiff.
Guinness Six Nations Try of Round 4 results
Sam Johnson (Italy v SCOTLAND) – 37%
Jack Conan (England v IRELAND) – 27%
Callum Braley (ITALY v Scotland) – 19%
Anthony Jelonch (Wales v FRANCE) – 17%
