{"id":219262,"date":"2019-09-27T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/219262\/japan-vs-ireland\/"},"modified":"2019-09-27T09:29:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T07:29:08","slug":"japan-vs-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2019\/09\/27\/japan-vs-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan vs Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby World Cup hosts Japan, will take on Ireland in their tough pool A clash on Saturday, 28 September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams began their campaigns with wins, with Japan beating Russia 30-10 and Ireland thrashing Scotland 27-3.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Ireland will look to secure another victory in order to take the top spot in Pool A, thus avoiding a clash with New Zealand in the quarterfinals. After failing to recover from a thigh injury, Johnny Sexton will be left out and replaced by starting fly half, Jack Carty,<\/p>\n<p>THE TEAMS<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Japan<\/strong>: Ryohei Yamanaka; Kotaro Matsushima, Timothy Lafaele, Ryoto Nakamura, Will Tupou, Yu Tamura, Yutaka Nagare, Amanaki Lelei Mafi, Pieter Labuschagne, Kazuki Himeno, James Moore, Luke Thompson, Jiwon Koo, Shota Horie, Keita Inagaki.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Atsushi Sakate, Isileli Nakajima, Asaeli Ai Valu, Wimpie van der Walt, Michael Leitch, Fumiaki Tanaka, Rikiya Matsuda, Lomano Lemeki.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ireland<\/strong>: Rob Kearney, Keith Earls, Garry Ringrose, Chris Farrell, Jacob Stockdale, Jack Carty, Conor Murray, CJ Stander, Josh van der Flier, Peter O&#8217;Mahony, Iain Henderson, James Ryan, Tadhg Furlong, Rory Bst, Cian Healy.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Sean Cronin, Dave Kilcoyne, Andrew Porter, Tadhg Beirne, Rhys Ruddock, Jack McGrath, Joey Carbery, Jordan Larmour.<\/p>\n<p>Kick-off: 9:15am\u00a028 September 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='b91d781d575e8b43dbd86c2b3636ae06'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both teams started their Rugby World Cup campaign with wins, with Japan beating Russia and Ireland overcoming Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8284,"featured_media":219263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8428,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sports-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Rugby World Cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}