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Les Françaises en demi-finale contre l'Australie à Vancouver
Le Canada a remporté un quart de finale héroïque contre les États-Unis au HSBC SVNS Vancouver, tandis que la Nouvelle-Zélande a remporté une nouvelle victoire dans la poursuite de la défense de son titre.
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Les championnes en titre ont marqué six essais pour battre l’Espagne 36-0, tandis que le Canada s’est imposé 12-10 face à ses voisines. La France et l’Australie sont également toujours en lice après avoir battu le Brésil et les Fidji dans leur demi-finale respective. Dans les demi-finales pour la 9e place, le Japon a battu l’Afrique du Sud et l’Irlande s’est imposée face à la Grande-Bretagne.
La fin des phases de poule
La Nouvelle-Zélande a poursuivi sur sa lancée de la première journée en inscrivant sept essais lors de sa victoire 43-5 sur l’Irlande, ce qui lui a permis de finir en tête de la poule A et de priver les championnes de Perth d’un quart de finale. Ce sont les Brésiliennes, après leur victoire 24-7 sur l’Irlande la veille et leur succès 17-12 sur l’Afrique du Sud lors de leur dernier match de poule, qui ont décroché leur place en quarts de finale.
L’Australie et les États-Unis avaient déjà confirmé leur présence en quarts de finale après la première journée, mais le match décisif de la poule B s’est terminé sur un score de nul (12-12) et la première place s’est jouée en prolongation. L’Australienne Maddison Levi a marqué le point en or, en récupérant un ballon perdu et en parcourant toute la longueur du terrain pour marquer (17-12).
La France a enregistré sa troisième victoire en battant la Grande-Bretagne 31-10 pour prendre la tête de la poule C. Le Canada, pays hôte, a assuré sa place en s’imposant 22-5 face à l’Espagne, mais les Espagnoles ont tout de même marqué suffisamment de points pour se qualifier pour les quarts de finale, avec les Fidji.
États-Unis – Canada
Le combat épique entre les deux pays d’Amérique du Nord s’est achevé sur un score de 12-10 en faveur du pays hôte, qui a su résister à la remontée tardive des Etats-Unis pour décrocher sa place en demi-finale.
Dans un match qui a vu trois cartons jaunes, deux pour les Etats-Unis et un pour le Canada, Florence Symonds a ouvert le score et a été l’unique marqueuse d’une première période tendue, les Canadiennes menant 5-0 à la pause.
Ariana Ramsey a marqué après la suspension d’Alex Sedrick pour les Etats-Unis, et Krissy Scurfield a fait de même pour le Canada juste après le carton d’Asia Hogan-Rochester. Ramsey allait marquer un deuxième essai, mais Alev Kelter manquait la transformation cruciale dans les derniers instants.
Le Canada affrontera la Nouvelle-Zélande en demi-finale dimanche.
Nouvelle-Zélande – Espagne
Dans un autre match riche en essais, la Nouvelle-Zélande a facilement disposé de l’Espagne et s’est qualifiée pour les demi-finales sur le score de 36 à 0.
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Malgré un carton jaune, les championnes en titre ont empêché l’Espagne de marquer et ont inscrit six essais pour continuer à défendre leur titre à Vancouver et à espérer une première médaille d’or cette saison.
Après avoir posé sept essais lors du dernier match de poule, elles portent leur total à 24 sur l’ensemble du tournoi.
France – Brésil
Après un premier essai rapide du Brésil, c’est la France qui s’est imposée dans ce quart de finale. Joanna Grisez a inscrit un doublé et les Françaises se sont imposées 24 à 5.
Les Brésiliennes ont été les premières à ouvrir le score grâce à un essai d’Aline Ribeiro, mais malgré leur bonne performance dans ce tournoi, ce sont les Françaises qui ont pris les choses en main en inscrivant deux essais avant la première mi-temps pour prendre l’avantage.
Avec deux autres essais dans la seconde période, les Françaises se sont qualifiées pour une demi-finale très attendue face à l’Australie, leader des Series.
Australie – Fidji
L’Australie s’est qualifiée pour les demi-finales en battant les Fidji sur le score de 35-19.
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Les leaders du SVNS ont pris le match par le bon bout et ont marqué une flopée d’essais, Maddison Levi, Kaitlin Shave et Faith Nathan s’illustrant en première période. Heleina Young a répliqué en début de seconde période, mais l’Australie a marqué deux autres essais pour assurer sa place en demi-finale et avoir une chance de se racheter de sa défaite à Perth.
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Good option for the lineout lost there.
1 Go to commentsIt’s not like Saffas have a long history of spouting absolute shite at any & every occasion. Oh wait… The dangers of an inferior third world education strike again.
16 Go to commentsI’m so glad we’re revisiting this. Really needs to be dissected further. I’m also so glad that a guy in the stands who wasn’t anywhere near the field when any of it would have been said (and even confirms this) has taken the lead and commented as Ireland. Definitely cleared it all up. This article would be hilarious if it wasn’t so misleading.
16 Go to commentsits such a shame he hasn’t achieved more success at club level. He’s really not been a potent finisher for a while now, but he’s still excellent in the kick chase. That’s the kind of skillset that generally only gets appreciated when you’re playing in premiership and european finals. I’m not sure whether the challenge cup counts given the quality of the competition seems lower than in previous years, but his duel with Mapimpi should be enthralling.
1 Go to commentsThe point is the irish players were arrogant,call it like you want sugar coat it aswell but they were you could see it in their way they handeled themselfs on the field when they got something right so dont tell me it was not arrogance it was,you can fool other people but not me,and to say to one of our players see you in the final put a nail in the coffin for this bullsh@t,just be grown men and accept it that you were arrogant,you could if seen it from a mile away, and then you lost to the allblacks what a cocky move that didnt work out for you ,Eben was right when he said u were arrogant,the point is you will deny it because you lost it all just grow some balls and move on we had won you lost accept it.
16 Go to comments“summer tour of North and South America” so its a summer tour of america?
1 Go to commentsEverybody is giving the Irish players the benefit of the doubt in ‘what they meant’, but none of these pundits or commentators offer the same courtesy to Eben. I don’t think Eben went, 1, 2, 3… etc. What might have happened is he didn’t count and when the 3rd or 5th guy said he went, hang on why are so many of them saying this… and then started to concentrate on it more and more as players continue to say it. So no, he didn’t count it, he realised many Irish players said it and made an assumption based on that… The Irish team was VERY confident at the time and I do believe they believed they were going to win the World Cup, which borders a bit on the arrogant side…
16 Go to commentsI can see how some of the Irish players would have said”see you in the final” as a gentle comment after a victory. It’s open to interpretation but it’s clumsy language. I don’t know the fella but I assure you Eben doesn’t have an axe to grind with Ireland. He has never been the media seeking pro. Oh and BTW it is I’ll be our winter in July so won’t be wet.
16 Go to comments*McCloskey*: _I saw this clip. Like, I wasn’t playing that game; I was in the stands…so you don't know sh!t in other words, infact you know just as much as Goode on this matter. I will believe the guy who was on the pitch when things were said as appose to two people speculating over what was said._
16 Go to comments@ turlough dream on buddy. Your boys are in for one tough time down in sa this summer…
16 Go to commentsI think Goode is looking to establish a platform for himself. Eben said “Probably” so that suggests he wasn’t counting. It’s an estimate Goode. I think even with your short and uneventful experience with the Sharks you probably realise winding up Saffas will get you some airtime. It’s a none event. Move on
16 Go to commentsRugby has never been as structured and synthetically pleasing as it is at this moment. The game is simply beautiful and messing with it too much will ruin it for everyone. I can't help but feel that over the past decade or so many rules have been changed to accommodate a certain hemisphere and counter another. Perhaps I am wrong but I somehow don’t think so.
2 Go to commentsNoted some excellent defensive steals from the Rebs last week against the Reds, largely J Canham, I think. It’s not a Rolls Royce but they are a real threat with their defensive line out at the beginning matches. What do you make of Canham Nick, WBs squad material?
83 Go to commentsCoin flip between Ardie and Scott Barrett. Both have their pros and cons, and both would probably be decent. Ardie has way more passion on the field, but that hasn’t always translated into the best decisions. They will both turn 34 at the next World Cup, so both will most likely have their best days a few years behind them. It’s hard to imagine now, but looking at young players coming through Ardie will probably be under the most pressure to retain his place in the team. Beauden Barrett also an outside chance if Razor sees him as the first choice 10.
7 Go to commentsQuality stuff from Flats. Rugby can’t replace football nor should we want it to. I think the ‘product’ (awful term sorry) now is absolutely fantastic. Growing the game shouldn’t be at the expense of losing its brutal beauty.
2 Go to commentsI think they’ll choose Scott Barret as captain, Ardie 7, Hoskins 8, Finau at 6.
7 Go to commentsSo what were saying is if you make it through to the play offs in Europe you’re likely to suffer at the tail end of the prem. No extra cash for playing in Europe, more chance of injury, fatiguing the team…while others not through rest up. whats the point??
1 Go to commentsClaims that Finau is a risky proposition are hyperbole. His tackles have been mostly perfectly timed and executed except for the Lynach one and that was a split-second out, certainly not 2 seconds. Social media criticism shows opposition fans are nervous about Finau’s impact. I see Jacobson and Blackadder as no.7s, they don’t have the power, size or dynamism to be 6 or 8 at Test level. Akira has shown he lacks the intuition and technique to play Tests. If he learnt to bend his back more and hit breakdowns and tackles low and hard, it would do wonders for his game. Finau is the standout option for 6 with Grace or Shields as his backup. I’d like to see Finau, Sotutu and Jacobson as an experimental back-row combo; lineout nous, dynamic ball carrying, hard defence, etc.
43 Go to commentsI find these articles so very interesting, giving a much more in depth series of insights than one can ever gain from “desktop” research. It is very significant that it is this English man that Joe Schmidt has turned to build the basement stability and reliability from the WB forwards that was so shredded during the Jones debacle. With his long period in Ireland, with both Leinster and Ireland, Schmidt will know Geoff Parling’s qualities as a player well, and he will have gone over, with a fine tooth comb, the mans time in Australia. This, one feels, will prove to be a shrewd decision. I’m particularly interested in Parling’s comments about the lineout, especially the differences in approach between the hemispheres. He talks about the impact of weather conditions on the type of lineout tactics employed. He is the right man to have preparing for a wet and windy game at Eden Park, the “Cake Tin”, or in Christchuch, or for that matter in Capetown. I must confess to being surprised by this comment though re Will Skelton: “ Is he a lineout jumper? No. But the lineout starts on the ground – contact work, lifting, utilising that massive body at the maul.” Geoff is spot on about the work Will does on the ground. But I would contest the view that he is not a lineout jumper. I think I have commented before on this one, so won’t go further than referring to the end of the last Cup Final in Dublin, LAR using Will on maybe 3 occasions at No 2 in the lineout. And I have seen him used by LAR in Top 14, and never seen him beaten to the catch…but in reality that would only be a total of 10 times max.
83 Go to commentsDaltons a great guy and can lead at any level with that humility
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