[RWC2023] Japan vs Chile (10/09/2023)

[saulan]

I think this is just going to be a really high scoring game, because that defense was also terrible.

 

[Ferrari333SP]

I think Japan will end up winning this pretty comfortably

 

[SG59_]

I'd like to think the player who got lifted had no idea his team mate was going to do that
That cost them.

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

I think this is just going to be a really high scoring game, because that defense was also terrible.

I am counting on that. I don't see how Japan can lose this. They tend to punch above their weight during WCs.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Chile not afraid of playing some rugby

 

[saulan]

Loving the crowd here, though. Amazing atmosphere in there it seems

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Chile are my new favourite rugby team in the world

 

[Ferrari333SP]

Some fantastic play from Chile

 

[Summer Rose]

Japan really going for it. Don't want the easy three points.

 

[SG59_]

Great movement from Japan, but Chile's defence is doing a great job at pushing them back.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Oof, don't like to see that

 

[Gavin]

I mean, how can that be a yellow card because he went low - how many low chop tackles do we see in rugby? Ok it might be a split second late, but still he was committed

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I mean, how can that be a yellow card because he went low - how many low chop tackles do we see in rugby? Ok it might be a split second late, but still he was committed

Yeah I thought it was weird they kept mentioning him going to the knees
Late sure but that's not an illegal hit - it's being treated as if it was a deliberate act to try and injure a guy without the ball rather than just poor timing

 

[SG59_]

Yellow seems fair. It was mistimed, but nothing more.

 

[Summer Rose]

Well worked try?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Love the call to use the ball when it's available at the back of the scrum

Solid try

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I thought that hit him in the plums before the replay
Mega winding

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I'd say that'll stay yellow due to it being an absorbing hit, but it feels like it's being judged harsher in international than club rugby so probably be a red

 

[Summer Rose]

That has to be a red if Curry's was a red.

 

[die_mole]

This is such a good game.