Rugby World Cup: Scots showering the Japanese ambitions – The World

Le Monde | 09/23/2015 at 6:24 p.m. • Updated 09/23/2015 at 6:27 p.m. | By Bruno Lesprit (Gloucester, special envoy)

Japanese rugby players have lost one advantage: they can no longer hide behind discretion. An astounding feat transformed them into a game, dwarf planet rugby potential Godzillas. Since their stunning, historic and resounding victory against the South Africans (34-32), when they first appeared on September 19 in Brighton, they are now expected on all the lawns of the realm. Were they reoffend four days later in Gloucester, in the southwest of England, facing the Scots? The poster was the more promising one knows XV of the Thistle able to lose against anyone.

The miracle was not repeated. Disciplined men of the New Zealand coach Vern Cotter has successfully entered into the competition by winning a large score (45-10) Wednesday, September 23. What showering foolish ambitions of the Australian coach (Japanese mother) Eddie Jones, who just promised to shake “order of world rugby.”

A penalty at the 2 ^th minute, successful by captain Greig Laidlaw gave the direction of the game. Methodical, the Scots have imposed a physical fight and structured an opponent who was betting again his agility and quality of its back line to develop offensive surprises. But the Japanese have made too many handling errors, which have the double whammy: balloons made breakthrough in the attempts, and entrusted face the poles at the foot of Laidlaw, connoisseur of the field since evolves in Gloucester

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“Flower of Scotland” began to resonate within the walls

Quickly led 6-0, Asians were able to react however in hot boiling point, where s ‘waved flags of the Rising Sun and vibrated “Nihon! “. A pénaltouche, followed by a penetrating maul and a test Amanaki Mafi, even allowed them to conduct sneak the score (7-6). Laidlaw quickly handed the record straight. The addition could have been heavier if the phenomenal back Ayumu Goromaru had made a great save in the final seconds of the half time propelling Tommy Seymour into touch one meter from the goal row.

At the beginning of the second half, the underdogs have recovered somewhat this madness that was right Springboks. A Goromaru penalty brought them to within two points. It is precisely when the hope was reborn as the Scots remembered that rugby is also to register the tests. A smooth and rapid offensive gave the opportunity to the third-row John Hardie to finally bring five points to his team. The Japanese have had a chance to close the gap on penalty but the attempt to hit the Goromaru Pagelle right.

The Scottish efforts have paid off. The opposing curtain has finally torn when the center Mark Bennett completed his ride between the poles. Flower of Scotland began to resonate in the enclosure when a sent against orbit the center Tommy Seymour. The impact and percussion Scots allowed them to score a fourth try, synonymous with bonus point by Mark Bennett, before Finn Russell drives the point.

This setback, certainly bitter , was predictable. The previous four (two in the World Cup in 1991 and 2003) between the two selections were all concluded by a Scottish victory, never by less than 21 points difference. However, it will measure the progress made in recalling a test match in Perth, Scotland, in 2004 had resulted in a 100-8. Besides the manorial seniority (they participated in the first international match in the history of rugby in 1871, the Japanese appearing only in 1932), experience, statistics, the Scots enjoyed an economic advantage: they were fresh as roach Wednesday since their last game dated back to September 5, the lost-match test (19-16) against France.

darlings of the World

This setback should not remove the Nipponese their status as darlings of the Global 2015. Japanmania has gripped the competition. The jerseys of Cherry Blossoms (“cherry blossom”) are out of stock at sporting goods stores. Indeed, in the center of Gloucester, local strolled with holding red and white, sometimes with a samurai headband. The opponent of Nipponese was not for nothing in this craze. “We know that the English do not like the Scots, and this is an added bonus” , had said before the meeting Eddie Jones, inviting supporters of Cherries and Whites or Gloucester RFC , to visit their stage with the shirt of their team, similar to the Japanese. What they were not private. The flags dispenser near the Kingsholm Stadium was the Cross of congested arm of St. Andrew. “Everybody asks me Japanese! “ was surprised it.

For sound, however, the Scots occupied the field with their bagpipes around the Kingsholm, a forum for 16,500 seats entirely devoted to rugby, Ancient (1891), and ideal for providing vintage feel.

The Scots, who take the lead in Group B, will still be favorites against the United States, September 27 in Leeds. The Japanese, if they are to reach the quarter-finals, will have to suffer the fate Samoans extended to the Springboks in Milton Keynes on October 3.