Japan v Italy — Nations Championship
Form
Japan
L
L
L
L
W
Italy
L
L
L
L
W
How it happened
- 5' Try Ignacio Brex 0–5
- 6' Conversion Paolo Garbisi 0–7
- 11' Try Warner Dearns 5–7
- 12' Conversion Takuro Matsunaga 7–7
- 13' Sub Tommaso Allan on for Lorenzo Pani
- 17' Try Takuro Matsunaga 12–7
- 18' Conversion Takuro Matsunaga 14–7
- 25' Penalty Takuro Matsunaga 17–7
- 40' Penalty Paolo Garbisi 17–10
- HT 17–10
- 47' Try Ben Gunter 22–10
- 48' Sub Ross Michael Vintcent on for Alessandro Ortombina
- 48' Sub Gianmarco Lucchesi on for Tommaso Di Bartolomeo
- 48' Conversion Takuro Matsunaga 24–10
- 52' Sub Michael Leitch on for Kanji Shimokawa
- 57' Sub Hayate Era on for Mamoru Harada
- 57' Sub Keijiro Tamefusa on for Syuhei Takeuchi
- 60' Sub Sojiro Otsuka on for Takato Okabe
- 60' Sub Mike Stolberg on for Harry Hockings
- 61' Sub Mirco Spagnolo on for Danilo Fischetti
- 61' Sub Muhamed Hasa on for Marco Riccioni
- 61' Sub Alessandro Fusco on for Stephen Varney
- 61' Sub Leonardo Marin on for Ignacio Brex
- 65' Sub Tiennan Costley on for Ben Gunter
- 67' Penalty Takuro Matsunaga 27–10
- 68' Sub Riccardo Favretto on for Niccolò Cannone
- 75' Sub Itsuki Kamimura on for Naoto Saito
- FT 27–10
Match stats
Possession
51%
49%
Ball possession
153
162
Passes
Scoring
3
1
Tries
3
1
Try assists
3
1
Conversions
Scoring other
108
102
Carries
3
3
Clean breaks
2
1
Penalty goals
0
0
Drop goals
Other
8/9 (89%)
4/4 (100%)
Scrums
10/10 (100%)
18/20 (90%)
Lineouts
7
26
Turnovers
4
1
Turnovers won
282
308
Meters run
4
5
Offloads
155
170
Tackles
17
13
Tackles missed
Penalty
9
6
Penalties conceded
0
0
Red cards
0
0
Yellow cards
Line-ups
Japan
- Takato Okabe
- Mamoru Harada
- Syuhei Takeuchi
- Harry Hockings
- Warner Dearns
- Ben Gunter
- Kanji Shimokawa
- Jack Cornelsen
- Kippei Ishida
- Yuya Hirose
- Dylan Riley
- Kazuma Ueda
- Takuro Matsunaga
- 9 Naoto Saito
- 10 Ryunosuke Ito
Replacements
- Hayate Era
- Keijiro Tamefusa
- Mike Stolberg
- Michael Leitch
- Tiennan Costley
- Itsuki Kamimura
- Sam Greene
- 17 Sojiro Otsuka
Nations Championship
| # | Team | P | W | D | L | PF | PA | +/− | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 130 | 49 | +81 | 15 | |
| 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 116 | 75 | +41 | 12 | |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 121 | 70 | +51 | 15 | |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 108 | 97 | +11 | 11 | |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 114 | 85 | +29 | 8 | |
| 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 125 | 77 | +48 | 10 | |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 97 | 99 | -2 | 7 | |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 90 | 91 | -1 | 10 | |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 62 | 88 | -26 | 4 | |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 60 | 102 | -42 | 5 | |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 49 | 145 | -96 | 0 | |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 37 | 131 | -94 | 0 |