{"id":221635,"date":"2019-10-25T12:10:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T10:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/221635\/watch-england-v-new-zealand-semi-final-match-preview\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T10:10:57","slug":"watch-england-v-new-zealand-semi-final-match-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2019\/10\/25\/watch-england-v-new-zealand-semi-final-match-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: England v New Zealand semi-final match preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England will face the match of their lives, as they take on New Zealand in the Rugby Cup semi-final on Saturday, 26 October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand crumpled Ireland in the quarter-finals, with some speculating that the defending champions might lift the trophy for a third time straight. England, however, was equally impressive in their quarter-final match, beating Australia 40 \u2013 16.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The two teams have faced each other three times in the Rugby World Cup with the All Blacks winning all three.<\/p>\n<p>Both Eddie Jones and Steve Hansen have gone for one change each for their sides&#8217; Rugby World Cup semi-final this weekend.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Squad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>England:<\/strong> 15 Elliot Daly, 14 Anthony Watson, 13 Manu Tualagi, 12 Owen Farrell (capt), 11 Jonny May, 10 George Ford, 9 Ben Youngs, 1 Mako Vunipola, 2 Jamie George, 3 Kyle Sinckler, 4 Maro Itoje, 5 Courtney Laws, 6 Tom Curry, 7 Sam Underhill, 8 Billy Vunipola.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Replacements:<\/strong> Luke Cowan-Dickie, Joe Marler, Dan Cole, George Kruis, Mark Wilson, Willi Heinz, Henry Slade, Jonathan Joseph.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Zealand:<\/strong>\u00a0 15 Beauden Barrett, 14 Sevu Reece, 13 Jack Goodhue, 12 Anton Lienert-Brown, 11 George Bridge, 10 Richie Mo\u2019unga, 9 Aaron Smith, 1 Joe Moody, 2 Codie Taylor, 3 Nepo Laulala, 4 Brodie Retallick, 5 Samuel Whitelock, 6 Scott Barrett, 7 Ardie Savea, 8 Kieran Read (capt).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Replacements:<\/strong>\u00a0 Dane Coles, Ofa Tuungafasi, Angus Ta\u2019avao, Patrick Tuipulotu, Sam Cane, TJ Perenara, Sonny Bill Williams, Jordie Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>England v New Zealand match kicks off on Saturday, 26 October 2019, at 10am.<\/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='2fa2eeb2ec332216ba7fec308a2eb88a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England is set for a huge Rugby World Cup semi-final as they take on New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8284,"featured_media":221636,"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-221635","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\/221635","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=221635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}