The Japanese are paying the bill – ladepeche.fr

The whole world was waiting for the “match after”! That of Japanese course authors of the historical sensation four days earlier against the South Africans (34-32). He was waiting with curiosity, greed, excitement, but four days is short. This is even shorter when the opponent happens to full throttle, fresh, rested, recovered as a cuckoo clock … and warned. Aware of the quality of the opponent. More surprise. So the Scots, who had studied well the seductive rugby Japanese were first applied to the choke by using the “tactics of the extinguisher.” In fact this is good handfuls of sand have cast on Japanese sparks. In rugby parlance, what happens? A ruthless defense on man, consumed at minimum on so sliding rucks promptly and especially cutting the outside. Well done, well done. They scored their first 12 points (4 penalties) on poorly negotiated adverse balloons …

For three quarters of an hour, the Japanese, a little less alert, a bit less clever and less farsighted have therefore broken teeth on this scholar device while remaining in the game (10-12). But they have left too many forces in twenty minutes, is sagging (4 trials received: 0-26!)

For the Scots do not stay with their choking work.. Once the tender and flickering rival, they offered a quality rugby enhanced by a nice pair of … centers. There is even longer than we had seen the Caledonians also collectively inspired.

That the new fans of Japanese rugby, however, rest assured, despite the crash, their idols are not eliminated. They will play their future October 10 face the Samoans

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Gloucester-MT. 12-7; 14,354 spectators; Referee: John Lacey (Irl)

Winners 5 E Hardie (48), Bennett (56, 69) Seymour (64), Russell (74); 4T (56, 64, 69, 74) and 4P (3, 12, 18, 20) Laidlaw

Defeated . 1E Mafi (15); 1T and 1P (46) Goromaru

Score evolution 3-0, 6-0, 6-7 9-7, 12-7 / 12-10, 17-10, 24-10, 31-10, 38-10, 45-10

SCOTLAND Hogg (Maitland, 66); Seymour Bennett (Horne, 75), Scott, S. Lamont (o) Russell (m) Laidlaw (cap.); Hardie, Denton, Wilson (Strauss, 57); J. Gray, Gilchrist (R. Gray, 50); Nel (Welsh 70), Ford (Brown 70), Dickinson (Grant 66)

Japan Goromaru; Matsushima, Sau, Tamura, Fukuoka (o) Tatekawa (Hesketh, 72) (m) Tanaka (Hiwasa, 65); Broadhurst, Mafi (Tui, 45), Leitch (cap.); Ives (Makabe, 61), L. Thompson (Ito, 65); Yamashita (Hatakeyama, 53), Horie (Kizu, 70), Inagaki (Mikami, 40)

Excluded. . tempo Matsushima (23, anti-backlash feed)

note the game 13 / 20- The men’s game Mark Bennett, Matt Scott, John BOLD (Scotland ) and Amanaki MAFI (Japan)