Newbury were our first opponents of the season and despite the score line suggesting otherwise, they gave us a stern test.
Ahead of the match, Hodgson admitted that a decent score line at Craven Cottage might allow him to rest key players for the return leg of this Europa League play-off.
It required extra time to knock out Napoli and then Benfica was beaten in the quarter final in a tie that was far closer than the 3-1 score line would suggest.
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But the score line seemed a little unfair to the Scots, who shared possession and territory, but lacked penetration and the finishing quality displayed by their hosts, while some wayward place-kicking by Gregor also cost them.
An 8-0 aggregate score-line in favour of the Danes left people wondering what all the fuss had been about.
They almost humiliated the four-times winners, Ghana, with an emphatic 3-0 score-line.
Cathal O'Rourke's charges were met with a determined Monaghan challenge, as the students edged a 0-5 to 0-3 score-line at half-time, with Tyrone's Niall McKenna and Derry's Charlie Kielt prominent.
At the same time, Switzerland had achieved a similar score-line against Wales, a combination that would have left Denmark in third place of their group and outsiders once again.
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Alan Quinlan's misdirected pass set up Jonnet and the winger won the race to the line to score.
And from the subsequent line-out, England number eight Easter cruised through a gap in the defensive line to score.
In the 73rd minute, Denilson burst away from the halfway line to score the third and Edilson made it 4-0 from close range five minutes later.
Against the Springboks they will have to find a way of getting across the line to score some tries, something they have not managed at Murrayfield this year.
Parks kicked all 12 of Scotland's points, but despite having a good share of possession and going close to scoring several times, they could not break the Italian defensive line to score a try.
Munster struck an early blow with the outstanding O'Connell diving over the top of a ruck on the edge of the Sale line to score after brilliant work by Keith Earls and Ronan O'Gara.
The Exiles squandered two chances to score on the Wasps line and the hosts made them pay when Kefu scored from close range to cap an attack that started with a searing break from Jacobs.
"I think we made enough line breaks to score far more points but our composure just let us down when we needed to be executing the final stage, " Delaney added.
To rub salt into Scarlets wounds, Leinster immediately went downfield to notch the decisive score as Sexton crossed the line after Berne's break and good work by young replacement Andrew Conway.
But it was again the All Blacks' strike power that told, Farrell freeing Whitney on the wing, the flanker stepping delightfully inside and driving to the line for a score improved by Thomas.
The first half was a scrappy affair, lit up only by Nick Easter's burst-through from the line-out to score a try in stoppage time.
Bristol's David Blaney was sin-binned late on for killing the ball and Saracens cashed in, driving Borthwick over from a line-out to score the bonus-point try.
Then in first-half stoppage-time Julien Frier intercepted a Marshall pass off the deck and took the ball just short of the try line for Vigneaux to score under the posts.
Carter made almost instant amends for his mistake as he charged down Berrick Barnes's kick to score and then Muliaina crossed the line after a brilliant chipped kick from the right touchline from Jane.
The French came out in more positive mood in the second-half but despite being camped on the Pumas line they failed to score and indeed it was Argentina who got away with a penalty to clear.
But a crafty line-out move caught the Irish flat-footed as Mike Phillips broke away to score, though Wales had used a different ball at the line-out.
Thus a perfectly symmetrical face, with eyes, lips and nostrils exactly the same distance from the central line, would earn a score of zero.
Hicks' decisive score, evading three challengers on the line, provided the only points of the second half after the teams went into the break at 10-10.
Holah's tap-down was scrappy but James swept up the loose ball, surging through the middle of the disintegrated line-out untouched to score with an extravagant dive.
Things almost got worse for Leeds seven minutes before the interval when Watmough broke through the Leeds defence again and passed to Stewart who seemed certain to score but dropped the ball with the line beckoning.
The second half began in similar fashion and Negredo set up Perotti for a certain score only for Casillas to charge across his line to save.
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