Summary

  • Final score: Scarlets 17-35 Glasgow

  • Warriors book first European final - on 19 May in Dublin

  • Glasgow will play Toulon or Benetton in final

  • McDowall (2), Horne, Matthews & Darge score tries for Glasgow

  • Four Costelow penalties & Evans try for Scarlets

  • Scarlets lose four players to injury - Sebastian, Williams, Jones, Fifita

  1. Postpublished at 74 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    Ken Owens is replaced by Shaun Evans up front.

    Evans' first job is to throw in at this vital line-out.

    Simon Berghan and Lewis Bean come on for Glasgow.

    Some shuffling in the away backline, too. Sebastian Cancelliere is off, George Horne has gone to the wing, and Ali Price is on at scrum-half.

  2. Postpublished at 19:19 British Summer Time 29 April 2023

    Peter Wright
    Former Scotland prop on BBC Radio Scotland

    Cancelliere being announced in the team would have given Glasgow a massive, massive lift.

    For the tiniest guy in the world he is an amazing player and showed his class there.

  3. Postpublished at 74 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    Glasgow's respite is only temporary.

    Another offside penalty. Another Costelow kick to the corner.

    Another close-range raid pending.

  4. Mega defencepublished at 73 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    Insane Glasgow defence. Insane.

    Kieran Hardy is steaming for the line off the scrum, it looks like a try every day of the week, but Matt Fagerson wraps up the number nine and holds him short.

    Scarlets rip it wide to the left, but again, Ryan Conbeer is seized upon by Ollie Smith and hauled into touch right by the corner flag.

    That's mega.

  5. Postpublished at 71 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    We're approaching must-score territory here... Scarlets go for the scrum.

  6. Postpublished at 70 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    Scarlets go again from the scrum, with a penalty advantage, and an obstruction from Johnny McNicholl means that advantage is activated.

    Ten minutes left.

    Scarlets need two scores to reach the final.

  7. Postpublished at 70 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    "He touched the ball two times, it's just a knock-on," says Mathieu Raynal.

    It's all about whether Ollie Smith makes a genuine attempt to catch the ball.

    Raynal is happy he does.

    It's an enormous call and it has incensed the home crowd.

    Often, we see a player going for a pass with one hand and being dispatched to the bin. But one hand does not, in law, mean it's illegal.

  8. Postpublished at 19:13 British Summer Time 29 April 2023

    Gareth Delve
    Former Wales international on BBC Radio Wales

    He has made a second attempt, he initially didn't have a chance of taking it, but when you go with one hand and don't take it you're in the bin.

  9. Postpublished at 69 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    Woah, woah, woah...

    Could this be a penalty try?

    Ollie Smith shoots up to intercept Johnny McNicholl's pass. If he misses it, Steff Evans has a run-in unchallenged.

    He juggles it one-handed, and can't cling on.

    Mathieu Raynal says knock-on only, but we're going to take a closer look...

    Referee Mathieu RaynalImage source, Reuters
  10. Postpublished at 68 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    Oops, that's not so impressive from George Horne.

    The scrum-half has his pocket picked off the line-out by Sam Lousi.

    Scrum Scarlets, five metres out.

    What a glorious attacking position.

  11. Postpublished at 19:09 British Summer Time 29 April 2023

    Gareth Delve
    Former Wales international on BBC Radio Wales

    Owens was working hard to get back in field but it's very good cover from George Horne.

  12. A Horne in Scarlets' sidepublished at 67 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    Superb defence!

    A neat Scarlets move at the front of the line-out sends Ken Owens crashing towards the corner flag.

    The hooker is fed by Sam Lousi, and has tiny George Horne in his sights.

    It is an immense physical mismatch, but David halts Goliath's progress long enough for Sebastian Cancelliere to help bundle Owens out of play.

  13. Postpublished at 66 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    Scarlets are far from done yet.

    A quickly taken free-kick gets them motoring into the Glasgow half, with Steff Evans doing the bulk of the damage.

    Warriors leak one penalty advantage, then another, as Iestyn Rees hauls his team forth.

    Sam Costelow punts to the corner.

    Massive, massive moments, these.

    Fourteen minutes to play.

  14. Postpublished at 19:05 British Summer Time 29 April 2023

    Peter Wright
    Former Scotland prop on BBC Radio Scotland

    When you're 10ft 5in, it's easy to get yourself over a maul. JP du Preez is a really big man but he's got massive arms as well.

  15. Postpublished at 19:05 British Summer Time 29 April 2023

    Colin Gregor
    Former Glasgow Warriors back on BBC Radio Scotland

    Mr Tickle's in there and grabs the ball.

  16. Postpublished at 62 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    Scarlets get a glimmer, but it's swiftly extinguished.

    They win a penalty near halfway and boot to touch on the Glasgow 22.

    But the immense frame of JP du Preez, whose arms are longer than most fully-grown anacondas, cocoons the ball and wins the Warriors a scrum.

    Another Glasgow scrum penalty - won again by Zander Fagerson - eases the pressure.

  17. Postpublished at 60 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    Colin Gregor
    Former Glasgow Warriors back on BBC Radio Scotland

    Scarlets' line-out has creaked a bit because JP du Preez is a big lump and putting pressure on the Scarlets near their own line. Good patience from the Warriors forwards to just eke out the score.

  18. 'Set-piece gives you go-forward'published at 60 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    Chris Paterson
    Former Scotland international on BT Sport

    Sometimes you can play wide too early. Scarlets defence almost gave them a little space to tempt them to go wide. The set-piece gets you go-forward as well, it's not only the big carries.

  19. Postpublished at 59 mins

    Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriors

    Colin Gregor
    Former Glasgow Warriors back on BBC Radio Scotland

    Everything that Glasgow do now is coming from the line-out they didn't have that in the first half, now they've got that sorted.

  20. converted try

    Converted try Scarlets 17-28 Glasgow Warriorspublished at 59 mins

    Rory Darge

    Glasgow celebrate Rory Darge's tryImage source, Huw Evans Picture Agency

    Pure brawn.

    It stems from another bungled home line-out - a feature of the Scarlets second-half woes - and boy, do Glasgow make them pay.

    Two heavy carries from Johnny Matthews, Jack Dempsey takes a few red jerseys with him, before Rory Darge, with Scott Cummings riding side saddle, drives over the whitewash.

    George Horne converts, and it's an 11-point margin.