Scotland (12) 45 / 10 (7) Japan (Final Score)
Scotland and Japan did battle in the 2015 Rugby World Cup at
Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester, England at 15:30 SA Time (14:30 BST, 13:30 GMT, 22:30 Japan Time).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 1 & CSN on TV in SA.
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Scorers:
Scotland:
- Penalties – Greig Laidlaw (4)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – John Hardie (1), Mark Bennett (2), Tommy Seymour (1), Finn Russell (1)
- Conversions – Greig Laidlaw (4)
Japan:
- Penalties – Ayumu Goromaru (1)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Amanaki Mafi (1)
- Conversions – Ayumu Goromaru (1)
Teams:
Scotland |
Japan |
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Expected weather: After a chilly and bright start to the day, cloud and outbreaks of rain will spread southeastwards during the morning. Brighter with isolated showers later. High of 16°C and a low of 13°C
Referee: John Lacey (Ireland)
Assistant Referees: George Clancy (Ireland), Marius Mitrea (Italy)
TMO: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)
Can Japan get a final hoorah try here?
Scotland defence holds…
Intercept by Maitland… but the Scotts were offside, 5m penalty
Desperately close….
TMO
No try, knocked centimetres from the line
Game Over
Final Score: Scotland (12) 45 / 10 (7) Japan
Interesting game…
Japan’s fitness only held for 50 minutes though… and Scotland capitalized… 5 x 2nd half tries
20 Minutes to go till the Wallabies / Fiji game… see you on that thread!
grootblousmile wrote:
And not one of them scored from a line out maul
They actually played some rugby, looked very good
128 @ nortie:
Lucky intercept swung the momentum big time though
grootblousmile wrote:
Thought Eddie Jones said Japan were definitely fitter than Scotland
130 @ Bullscot:
They played a mere 4 days ago… remember that
Think it was good for Scotland to also get that defense test in the end as well.
Scotland – 192 tackles made at 95 percent success rate
Japan kicked 6 times out of hand. Must be some kind of world cup record.
@ grootblousmile:
I remember which is why I found his comment odd surely all of us expected them to fade as the match went on.
135 @ Bullscot:
They did fade…
But Scotland were full value, managing to capitalize on that fading fitness.
Besides the fatigue also thought a few differences from Saturday – Japan’s kicker not as accurate and their handling wasn’t as good think they already knocked on 4 times in the first 15min alone whereas only 8 knocks on whole game against the Boks.
@ grootblousmile:
What did you think of Josh Strauss today?
@ Ben-die-Bul:
Hi Ben no Japan only beat the Boks by 2 so it would have been 45/8
138 @ Bullscot:
Not on long enough to really rate.
I thought WP Nel was everage to poor
Says a lot about our fitness and ability to create tries. Same opponents; Scotland scoring 5 tries in second half.
Makes we wonder about our backline play; in terms of coaching and players that can create something out of nothing.
@ McLook:
Our backline didnt get to do anything because our forwards stood at flyhalf all day, lambie rarely got the ball, and when they did jean would run a crash ball… To make things worse our forwards get the ball in a deep position while standing still, when lood and strauss took flat passes at pace they scored tries.
@ MacroPolo:
Yes we lost the battle at the breakdowns. No speed onto the ball and to upright in contact. I thought the backline was better when Pollard and FdP came on but we were still just moving the ball through the hands; no planned starter moves. I have difficulty remember I ng occasions were the ball actually gone to the wing with JdV on the field over the last 5 years.
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