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La confiance de Jamie Joseph pour jouer les Samoa

TOULOUSE, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 10: Amato Fakatava of Japan heads in for a try during the Rugby World Cup France 2023 match between Japan and Chile at Stadium de Toulouse on September 10, 2023 in Toulouse, France. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

Le Japon, toujours en lice pour gagner sa place pour les quarts de finale, affronte un adversaire direct dans la quête de cet objectif, les Samoa.

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Pour cet avant-dernier match de poule, le sélectionneur Jamie Joseph renouvelle sa confiance à 13 des 15 titulaires lors de la dernière rencontre, face à l’Angleterre (défaite 34-12).

Deux modifications à noter dans la ligne de trois-quarts : Dylan Riley remplace Tomoki Osada au centre et Lomano Lemeki prend la place de Semisi Masiresa au poste d’arrière.

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Coupe du Monde de Rugby
Japan
28 - 22
Temps complet
Samoa
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XV de départ

1 Keita Inagaki
2 Shota Horie
3 Jiwon Gu
4 Jack Cornelsen
5 Amato Fakatava
6 Michael Leitch
7 Pieter Labuschagne
8 Kazuki Himeno (c)
9 Yutaka Nagare
10 Rikiya Matsuda
11 Jone Naikabula
12 Ryoto Nakamura
13 Dylan Riley
14 Kotaro Matsushima
15 Lomano Lemeki

Remplaçants

16 Atsushi Sakate
17 Craig Millar
18 Asaeli Ai Valu
19 Warner Dearns
20 Kanji Shimokawa
21 Naoto Saito
22 Seungsin Lee
23 Tomoki Osada

Quinze des 23 joueurs retenus faisaient partie de l’équipe qui avait affronté les Samoa plus tôt cette année, notamment le seul marqueur d’essai, Amato Fakatava.

Quatre joueurs de cette équipe vont affronter les Samoa pour la troisième fois en Coupe du Monde. Shota Horie, Keita Inagaki, Michael Leitch et Kotaro Matsushima avaient tous les quatre pris part aux confrontations face à cette équipe en lors de la RWC 2015 et 2019.

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Amato Fakatava a inscrit son premier essai en sélection face aux Samoa cette année. Au cours de ce match, il avait parcouru 90 mètres ballon en main (le record de son équipe sur la rencontre) et avait battu six défenseurs en huit courses. Il avait été l’un des trois Japonais à franchir la ligne d’avantage ce jour-là.

En défense, il avait réussi ses 10 tentatives de plaquage et avait provoqué une perte de balle au contact sur un plaquage.

Jone Naikabula a fait ses débuts en sélection face aux Samoa cette année. Il a inscrit un essai lors de quatre de ses six sélections.

Seungsin Lee va faire ses débuts en Coupe du Monde sur le banc. Lors du match face aux Samoa en juillet dernier, il avait inscrit 17 points en réalisant un sans-faute dans ses tentatives face aux poteaux (cinq pénalités et une transformation).

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JW 5 hours ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

I rated Lowe well enough to be an AB. Remember we were picking the likes of George Bridge above such players so theres no disputing a lot of bad decisions have been made by those last two coaches. Does a team like the ABs need a finicky winger who you have to adapt and change a lot of your style with to get benefit from? No, not really. But he still would have been a basic improvement on players like even Savea at the tail of his career, Bridge, and could even have converted into the answer of replacing Beauden at the back. Instead we persisted with NMS, Naholo, Havili, Reece, all players we would have cared even less about losing and all because Rieko had Lowe's number 11 jersey nailed down.


He was of course only 23 when he decided to leave, it was back in the beggining of the period they had started retaining players (from 2018 onwards I think, they came out saying theyre going to be more aggressive at some point). So he might, all of them, only just missed out.


The main point that Ed made is that situations like Lowe's, Aki's, JGP's, aren't going to happen in future. That's a bit of a "NZ" only problem, because those players need to reach such a high standard to be chosen by the All Blacks, were as a country like Ireland wants them a lot earlier like that. This is basically the 'ready in 3 years' concept Ireland relied on, versus the '5 years and they've left' concept' were that player is now ready to be chosen by the All Blacks (given a contract to play Super, ala SBW, and hopefully Manu).


The 'mercenary' thing that will take longer to expire, and which I was referring to, is the grandparents rule. The new kids coming through now aren't going to have as many gp born overseas, so the amount of players that can leave with a prospect of International rugby offer are going to drop dramatically at some point. All these kiwi fellas playing for a PI, is going to stop sadly.


The new era problem that will replace those old concerns is now French and Japanese clubs (doing the same as NRL teams have done for decades by) picking kids out of school. The problem here is not so much a national identity one, than it is a farm system where 9 in 10 players are left with nothing. A stunted education and no support in a foreign country (well they'll get kicked out of those countries were they don't in Australia).


It's the same sort of situation were NZ would be the big guy, but there weren't many downsides with it. The only one I can think was brought up but a poster on this site, I can't recall who it was, but he seemed to know a lot of kids coming from the Islands weren't really given the capability to fly back home during school xms holidays etc. That is probably something that should be fixed by the union. Otherwise getting someone like Fakatava over here for his last year of school definitely results in NZ being able to pick the cherries off the top but it also allows that player to develop and be able to represent Tonga and under age and possibly even later in his career. Where as a kid being taken from NZ is arguably going to be worse off in every respect other than perhaps money. Not going to develop as a person, not going to develop as a player as much, so I have a lotof sympathy for NZs case that I don't include them in that group but I certainly see where you're coming from and it encourages other countries to think they can do the same while not realising they're making a much worse experience/situation.

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