Japan 2019 - Pool C - Argentina England France Tonga USA

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Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Tries	PF	PA	+/-	BP	Points
England	2	2	0	0	11	80	10	70	2	10
Argentina	2	1	0	1	6	49	35	14	2	6
France	1	1	0	0	0	2	23	21	2	4
USA	1	0	0	1	1	7	45	-38	0	0
Tonga	2	0	0	2	2	17	63	-46	0	0

France 23-21 Argentina                  
England 35-3 Tonga      
England 45-7 United States
Argentina 28-14 Tonga                       


2 October 2019                   France v United States                 Fukuoka Hakatanomori Stadium, Fukuoka
5 October 2019                   England v Argentina                    Tokyo Stadium, Chōfu
6 October 2019                   France v Tonga                            Kumamoto Stadium, Kumamoto
9 October 2019                   Argentina v United States             Kumagaya Rugby Stadium, Kumagaya
12 October 2019                 England v France                         International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama
13 October 2019                 United States v Tonga                  Hanazono Rugby Stadium, Higashiōsaka

Penaud is my rugby man crush - he's incredible. Like a young Ben Smith!

mikey_dragon wrote:France look like les bleus of old. Lovely running and offloading, just a few too many knock-ons. Argentina happen to be making more knock-ons though, and France pounce on it every time.

France looking smart too... good lead at the moment going into halftime. That said France looked great vs Wales in the first half of the six nations opener, climbed to healthy lead and were outplayed second half..

Inconsistent refereeing already, basically if the crowd boo enough the ref wakes up!

So unfair we have to play France, stitched up once again by world rugby.

Great start to the second half by Argentina 20-10 now...

Argentina’s scrum is looking formidable

TightHEAD wrote:Inconsistent refereeing already, basically if the crowd boo enough the ref wakes up!

Hard to disagree with that. He's all over the place at the scrums.

This group could be very interesting

A game of two halves atm

France under the cosh

Argentina need a second score in the next 5 minutes. Take advantage of the momentum.

Yellow coming for France

Somewhat inevitable that Arg would come back. It’s likely too big a mountain to climb though.

Yes France are struggling a bit here and starting to get some chat about the breakdown by the ref... Argentina’s scrum looking superb and really applying the pressure.

Another line out maul and a try

Well well well!

I say that and they score again. Did Argentina make subs for the scrum?

Try Argentina, game on

Lets see if France hsve shaken off the flakeness

RDW wrote:Penaud is my rugby man crush - he's incredible. Like a young Ben Smith!

Over hyped player. He just jumped out out Montoya’s way for that try

Feart as my dad would say

Blimey, i felt that tackle on Ntxmack from here

tigertattie wrote:

RDW wrote:Penaud is my rugby man crush - he's incredible. Like a young Ben Smith!

Over hyped player. He just jumped out out Montoya’s way for that try

Feart as my dad would say

Now he is taking wrong players and giving away penalties. He’s having a mare

Thsts got be a yellow if the don't score

How many final warnings have the French been given now?

How many final warnings!

Ref bottles it

Why didn’t Argentina kick for touch? They’ve been so dominant in that area.

mikey_dragon wrote:I say that and they score again. Did Argentina make subs for the scrum?

Keep working on this trick.. maybe you can make it work in Wales’s favour on Monday or next weekend... starts looking ropey for us, you post that it’s too big a hill to climb or similar and we get back in the match..

Didn’t you do similar in the France and England matches in the six nations?

England have 2 tough opponents, even if they should beat both here.

Still fancy France to get over the line here, but this might be a case of which teams loses, rather than who goes on to win it. Could be a nervy, scrappy finish.

Can't help but think Argentina really needed 7 points not 3 from that - that was their chance

miaow wrote:England have 2 tough opponents, even if they should beat both here.

Still fancy France to get over the line here, but this might be a case of which teams loses, rather than who goes on to win it. Could be a nervy, scrappy finish.

On the form england ere shoeing in the warm up games they should absolute thrash these two.

Certainties in life:

Death
Taxes
French implosion

Penaud very unlucky there

France are being typically french here.

Penaud looks pretty groggy

RDW wrote:Certainties in life:

Death
Taxes
French implosion

Yep!

That looked a fair contest, Penaud unlucky to catch the knee

BigGee wrote:That looked a fair contest, Penaud unlucky to catch the knee

Crazy that a few years ago it would have been a yellow against Argentina because he didn't jump as high.

BigGee wrote:Penaud looks pretty groggy

So does the rest of the french players.

They clearly don’t like the possibility of Scotland taking their mantle of most bonkers team on the planet. They are doing everything they can to be Batschit mental

And yet they are back into the lead

Two points in it going into the last ten mins...

maestegmafia wrote:

miaow wrote:England have 2 tough opponents, even if they should beat both here.

Still fancy France to get over the line here, but this might be a case of which teams loses, rather than who goes on to win it. Could be a nervy, scrappy finish.

On the form england ere shoeing in the warm up games they should absolute thrash these two.

You'd think that, but the offloading game these 2 teams have shown today would be a struggle for England. We saw what Scotland did to them by moving the ball around. The warm ups mean nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Great drop as well. Game on. 3 great games so far.

Game changer here. Was Picamoles not miles offside?

BigGee wrote:And yet they are back into the lead

Don’t need to lose to be bonkers!

That’s a kickable penalty, poor maul defence by Argentina there

England will beat both of these handily enough. France and Argentina are definitely a step down in class. Would much prefer France to progress in 2nd than Argentina though.

miaow wrote:Still fancy France to get over the line here, but this might be a case of which teams loses, rather than who goes on to win it. Could be a nervy, scrappy finish.

Classic French. Refuse to win it.

Poor defence by Fickou. Silly mistake.

Bit of a soft pen.

Penalty to win it

Missed it. Close.

mikey_dragon wrote:Bit of a soft pen.

He was in the air, poor defence, such a silly mistake by a very good player

The refereeing in this game was poor. But enjoyable game nonetheless.