Italy 12-16 Scotland | Rugby World Cup warm-up match report

• Italy 12-16 Scotland• Scotland avoid a seventh straight defeat after a nail-biting finish They were freed from the shackles of the looming wooden spoon but this was famine rather than feast. At least Henry Pyrgos’s late try avoided a seventh straight defeat for Scotland but Vern Cotter will still have plenty to chew on after these two sides served up another nail-biting finish.Pyrgos, the replacement scrum-half, plunged over with six minutes remaining before which Italy were well worth their lead. For Scotland the defence was sound – the porousness evident in the second half in Dublin last w…