Rugby World Cup hosts Japan, will take on Ireland in their tough pool A clash on Saturday, 28 September 2019.<\/p>\n
Both teams began their campaigns with wins, with Japan beating Russia 30-10 and Ireland thrashing Scotland 27-3.<\/p>\n
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
THE TEAMS<\/p>\n
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 Replacements: Atsushi Sakate, Isileli Nakajima, Asaeli Ai Valu, Wimpie van der Walt, Michael Leitch, Fumiaki Tanaka, Rikiya Matsuda, Lomano Lemeki.<\/p>\n Ireland<\/strong>: Rob Kearney, Keith Earls, Garry Ringrose, Chris Farrell, Jacob Stockdale, Jack Carty, Conor Murray, CJ Stander, Josh van der Flier, Peter O’Mahony, Iain Henderson, James Ryan, Tadhg Furlong, Rory Bst, Cian Healy.<\/p>\n Replacements: Sean Cronin, Dave Kilcoyne, Andrew Porter, Tadhg Beirne, Rhys Ruddock, Jack McGrath, Joey Carbery, Jordan Larmour.<\/p>\n Kick-off: 9:15am\u00a028 September 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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":102573,"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":[2771,2886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sports-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Rugby World Cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}