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Crusaders beat Reds to finish second in Super Rugby Pacific regular season

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The Queensland Redsโ€™ Super Rugby Pacific season is hanging by a thread after another tough loss against New Zealand-based opposition on Friday night.

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They couldnโ€™t stay with the Crusaders in a 28-15 defeat in Christchurch, and will meet them again in the South Island city for next weekโ€™s quarter-final.

It completes a horror run for the Reds against the competitionโ€™s New Zealand-based teams, 0-5 in those fixtures and outscored by a combined 63 points.

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    But Queensland skipper Tate McDermott said a far more competitive second half would give them confidence that they could make some noise in the post-season.

    โ€œReally proud of how we managed to claw back into it and weโ€™ll take that going forward,โ€ he told Stan Sports.

    โ€œNot too many teams get two cracks at the Crusaders in a row and weโ€™ll take the positives out of that game because weโ€™ve got to.

    โ€œIt was as simple as holding the ball, when we stuck to things better as a team and worked hard and put phases together, we looked really good โ€ฆ but itโ€™s about doing that for longer periods of time.โ€

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    From the jump the Crusaders looked in imperious touch, breaking through on 12 minutes through Fergus Burke after they pinched a scrum from a Queensland feed, while Will Jordan scored under the posts soon after.

    And they could effectively start planning for their rematch at the half as Brodie McAlister crossed for 21-3, his team having run for an extra 217m in the first term.

    The Reds were far more competitive in the second half and found a try through Richie Asiata to bring the score back to 21-10 as the hosts played a man down after Pablo Matera was carded for a dangerous throw.

    A crash play for Crusader sub Tom Christie as soon as they had their full compliment back was quickly cancelled out by Red No.8 Harry Wilson in the corner, but the Kiwis had done enough to claim the points.

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    It kept the hot form rolling for the Crusaders, now with 38, 11, 58 and 13-point wins since their surprise loss to the NSW Waratahs a month back.

    And captain Scott Barrett warned his side could produce an even more clinical display in a weekโ€™s time.

    โ€œAll week we focused on ourselves and didnโ€™t look too far ahead โ€ฆ itโ€™s about us getting momentum and playing some rugby that weโ€™re proud of,โ€ he told Stan Sports.

    โ€œWe were creating in that first half and had a little lack of patience and werenโ€™t clinical enough, come playoffs footy those chances are probably going to be less.

    The Crusaders were without gun flyhalf Richie Moโ€™unga and hooker Codie Taylor, with both expected to be fit for next weekโ€™s clash after dealing with ribs and finger injuries respectively.

    Queensland sorely missed the creativity of James Oโ€™Connor, with the flyhalfโ€™s season all but over with a hamstring injury.

    Matt Faessler left the field inside five minutes after copping a big hit, with the hooker not returning.

    Crusaders 28 (Tries to Fergus Burke, Will Jordan, Brodie McAlister and Tom Christie; 4 conversions to Burke)

    Reds 15 (Tries Richie Asiata and Harry Wilson; conversion and penalty to Lawson Creighton)

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