Rugby World Cup: With Fiji on the brink of knocking the Wallabies out of the World Cup, the two teams took swipes at each other.
Eddie Jones and Fiji trade war of words | 00:57Ireland cruised into the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals by demolishing Scotland 36-14 in a fiery game in their final Pool B match at the Stade de France on Saturday.
Latecomers would have missed the lightning start made by the Irish that gave the tens of thousands of fans from Ireland just the start they desired in Paris. The Irish then missed a glorious chance to score a second try when under pressure from Jamie Ritchie Mack Hansen fumbled the pass from Peter O’Mahony with the tryline metres away.
The Irish showed the Scots how to take your chances with a beautiful move, with Sexton involved twice, and again Ringrose providing the killer pass feeding Keenan, going in the left-hand corner. The Irish were rampant, though, and went over for another try. Sexton’s long pass found Keenan, who went over for his second of the match and secured the Irish the bonus point and Sexton converted to make it 26-0 at half-time.
Ireland's fly-half Jonathan Sexton reacts during a tussle with Scotland's hooker George Turner . An official looks on as Scotland's loosehead prop Pierre Schoeman and Ireland's hooker Dan Sheehan tussle across an advertising hoarding. Sexton failed to convert and went off to a thunderous reception for a valuable rest ahead of next week’s quarter-final.
Mapusua’s side led with seven minutes to go in Lille but were penalised 14 times and shown a yellow card by Andrew Brace “I believe there is, I believe there has been in the past,” Mapusua told reporters.“It’s what I’ve seen for the last I don’t know how many years, from when I was playing,” the former Samoa and London Irish centre added.Samoa captain Michael Alaalatoa agreed with his coach, pointing out sides like Tonga and Fiji have also suffered the same fate.
Farrell said his team was “scrappy” as they came back to edge Samoa 18-17 after trailing by nine points with half an hour to play. The score remained 5-0 after a quarter of an hour after ex-All Black Lima Sopoaga missed a straight-forward penalty, having been forced to change his decade-old kicking tee after losing it after September’s victory over Chile.
England were shell-shocked and their inability to deal with Samoa’s intensity was highlighted by Farrell’s unnecessary knock-on seconds before the half-time whistle with the score at 14-8. With a quarter of the game left Samoa’s lead was just six points after Farrell slotted a penalty following an off the ball tackle on him by Toala.
Samoa still had time to claim a win but Alamanda Motuga failed to cleanly catch Neria Fomai’s off-load metres from the England tryline with 90 seconds to go. The victory extended to eight Wales’ winning streak in pool matches, but consigned Georgia -- who registered a 35-15 loss to Australia, an 18-18 draw with Portugal and a 17-12 defeat by Fiji -- to fourth-placed finish in the pool which means they miss out on an automatic qualification for the 2027 World Cup.A Tommy Reffell turnover spurred Wales’ first proper chance of crossing the Georgian whitewash, Sam Costelow tackled into touch as the ball was worked left.
Wales struck within two minutes of the restart, George North picking up a stray Georgian pass to feed Rees-Zammit for an easy run-in.
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