A knee injury for veteran fly-half Stephen Jones took some of the gloss off Scarlets' Heineken Cup bonus-point win over Treviso.
Treviso coach points to the positives
A knee injury for veteran fly-half Stephen Jones took some of the gloss off Scarlets' Heineken Cup bonus-point win over Treviso.
Jones, who turned 33 this week, came off after 18 minutes of the 35-27 success after suffering a blow to his left knee.
"It will take 24 to 48 hours to have an accurate assessment. It's probably a tweak to the ligaments but we don't really know," said head coach Nigel Davies.
"In the next couple of days we'll have a clear assessment. He's walking around, so that's a good sign. We will have it scanned after the swelling has gone down."
Davies added he was not satisfied with his side's performance despite scoring four tries.
"They are a quality side. We know only too well about that because we have played them in the Magners League," he said.
"If you give them an opportunity they are dangerous and we are disappointed today with our game without the ball.
"When we did look after the ball we scored tries. It would have been nice to have finished the match off at half-time .
"We blew some great opportunities and overall we are disappointed with our performance, but having said that we know we can get better.
"It was imperative we won and a bonus point was important in the group we are in. We set out what we wanted to achieve but we also realise our performance wasn't great."
Gutted
Disappointed Treviso coach Franco Smith added: "I'm gutted because we are looking for a win in the Heineken Cup, but in general there are plenty of positives.
"I was disappointed the way we defended early on. We were allowing too many offloads and we missed too many tackles.
"But I'm pleased we stayed in there after half-time. At the end we could have had two bonus points.
"We are realistic at Treviso though - we are competing at this level. We beat them in the Magners League and they must have been very cross and very upset still. We knew they were going to be up for it."
