SEVENTEEN points from fly-half Peter Horne ensured Glasgow maintained their impressive start to the season with a 37-21 bonus point win over Treviso.
Dave Rennie’s side have made a fine start to the 2017/18 Guinness PRO14 and they retained their 100 per cent record despite an indifferent performance at Scotstoun.
Expectations were high following a superb win over Munster last week, but the hosts failed to reach the same heights before a stoppage-time try from Sam Johnson claimed a dramatic bonus point after Horne had dominated the game with a faultless performance.
Tommy Seymour opened the scoring from a well-worked set-piece move following a scrappy opening.
After kicking for the corner, Chris Fusaro broke off a maul before feeding the ball to the backs, and Seymour raced through from the 22 to touch down under the posts.
Marty Banks reduced Glasgow’s lead with a penalty but Rob Harley muscled his way over from five yards at the other end to open up a 14-point advantage once Horne had added another conversion.
The visitors eventually took another three points to make it 17-9 at the break.
An off-the-ball incident offered the hosts a chance to pull away, and Horne subsequently kicked another three points.
Glasgow signalled their intentions to finish the game off in the 54th minute, choosing to take a scrum rather than an easy three points on the 22.
The ball found Horne and the fly-half cut inside before touching down under the posts to take his tally to 17 for the evening.
The Italian outfit struck back immediately, with Marco Lazzaroni touching down in the corner, but Banks saw his kick bounce back off the post.
Federico Ruzza’s try pulled the score back to 27-21 to set up a tense finale, only for Johnson to scramble home a vital fourth try.
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