Japan v Italy — Nations Championship
Nations Championship · Round 1
Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo
Japan
5th in Nations Championship
· UTC
27
10
Full-time
1st half 17–102nd half 10–0
Italy
6th in Nations Championship
Japan scorers:
Tries Dearns 11′, Matsunaga 17′, Gunter 47′
Cons Matsunaga 12′, Matsunaga 18′, Matsunaga 48′
Pens Matsunaga 25′, Matsunaga 67′
Italy scorers:
Tries Brex 5′
Cons Garbisi 6′
Pens Garbisi 40+4′
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Match info
Kick-off, venue, form and the table.
Kick-off
· UTC
- UK & Ireland (BST)
- Sat 09:40
- South Africa (SAST)
- Sat 10:40
- Sydney (AEST)
- Sat 18:40
- New Zealand (NZST)
- Sat 20:40
Venue
Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo
Form and season so far
Season figures: Nations Championship table.
Nations Championship table
Scoring timeline
Final · newest first
- Full-time27–10
- 75′ Replacement Japan: Itsuki Kamimura On for Naoto Saito
- 68′ Replacement Italy: Riccardo Favretto On for Niccolò Cannone
- 67′ Penalty goal Japan: Takuro Matsunaga Penalty goal 27–10
- 65′ Replacement Japan: Tiennan Costley On for Ben Gunter
- 61′ Replacement Italy: Leonardo Marin On for Ignacio Brex
- 61′ Replacement Italy: Alessandro Fusco On for Stephen Varney
- 61′ Replacement Italy: Muhamed Hasa On for Marco Riccioni
- 61′ Replacement Italy: Mirco Spagnolo On for Danilo Fischetti
- 60′ Replacement Japan: Mike Stolberg On for Harry Hockings
- 60′ Replacement Japan: Sojiro Otsuka On for Takato Okabe
- 57′ Replacement Japan: Keijiro Tamefusa On for Syuhei Takeuchi
- 57′ Replacement Japan: Hayate Era On for Mamoru Harada
- 52′ Replacement Japan: Michael Leitch On for Kanji Shimokawa
- 48′ Conversion Japan: Takuro Matsunaga Conversion 24–10
- 48′ Replacement Italy: Gianmarco Lucchesi On for Tommaso Di Bartolomeo
- 48′ Replacement Italy: Ross Michael Vintcent On for Alessandro Ortombina
- 47′ Try Japan: Ben Gunter Try 22–10
- Half-time17–10
- 40+4′ Penalty goal Italy: Paolo Garbisi Penalty goal 17–10
- 25′ Penalty goal Japan: Takuro Matsunaga Penalty goal 17–7
- 18′ Conversion Japan: Takuro Matsunaga Conversion 14–7
- 17′ Try Japan: Takuro Matsunaga Try 12–7
- 13′ Replacement Italy: Tommaso Allan On for Lorenzo Pani
- 12′ Conversion Japan: Takuro Matsunaga Conversion 7–7
- 11′ Try Japan: Warner Dearns Try 5–7
- 6′ Conversion Italy: Paolo Garbisi Conversion 0–7
- 5′ Try Italy: Ignacio Brex Try 0–5
TRY 5 ptsCON 2PEN 3YC yellow card (10 min)RC red cardSUB replacement
Line-ups
Japan
Coach: Eddie Jones- 1 Takato Okabe Prop
- 2 Mamoru Harada Hooker
- 3 Syuhei Takeuchi Prop
- 4 Harry Hockings Lock
- 5 Warner Dearns (captain) Lock
- 6 Ben Gunter Flanker
- 7 Kanji Shimokawa Flanker
- 8 Jack Cornelsen No. 8
- 9 Naoto Saito Scrum-half
- 10 Ryunosuke Ito Fly-half
- 11 Kippei Ishida Wing
- 12 Yuya Hirose Centre
- 13 Dylan Riley Centre
- 14 Kazuma Ueda Wing
- 15 Takuro Matsunaga Full-back
Replacements
- 16 Hayate Era on at 57′
- 17 Sojiro Otsuka on at 60′
- 18 Keijiro Tamefusa on at 57′
- 19 Mike Stolberg on at 60′
- 20 Michael Leitch on at 52′
- 21 Tiennan Costley on at 65′
- 22 Itsuki Kamimura on at 75′
- 23 Sam Greene not used
Italy
Coach: Gonzalo Quesada- 1 Danilo Fischetti Prop
- 2 Tommaso Di Bartolomeo Hooker
- 3 Marco Riccioni Prop
- 4 Niccolò Cannone Lock
- 5 Andrea Zambonin Lock
- 6 Alessandro Ortombina Flanker
- 7 Michele Lamaro (captain) Flanker
- 8 Lorenzo Cannone No. 8
- 9 Stephen Varney Scrum-half
- 10 Paolo Garbisi Fly-half
- 11 Monty Ioane Wing
- 12 Tommaso Menoncello Centre
- 13 Ignacio Brex Centre
- 14 Malik Faissal Wing
- 15 Lorenzo Pani Full-back
Replacements
- 16 Gianmarco Lucchesi on at 48′
- 17 Mirco Spagnolo on at 61′
- 18 Muhamed Hasa on at 61′
- 19 Riccardo Favretto on at 68′
- 20 Ross Michael Vintcent on at 48′
- 21 Alessandro Fusco on at 61′
- 22 Leonardo Marin on at 61′
- 23 Tommaso Allan on at 13′
Match stats · full-time
Possession: Japan 51%, Italy 49%
Carries: Japan 108, Italy 102
Metres made: Japan 282, Italy 308
Line breaks: Japan 3, Italy 3
Tackles made: Japan 155, Italy 170
Tackles missed: Japan 17, Italy 13
Turnovers won: Japan 4, Italy 1
Lineouts won: Japan 10/10, Italy 18/20
Scrums won: Japan 8/9, Italy 4/4
Penalties conceded: Japan 9, Italy 6
Yellow cards: Japan 0, Italy 0
Red cards: Japan 0, Italy 0
Passes: Japan 153, Italy 162
Tries: Japan 3, Italy 1
Try assists: Japan 3, Italy 1
Conversions: Japan 3, Italy 1
Penalty goals: Japan 2, Italy 1
Drop goals: Japan 0, Italy 0
Turnovers: Japan 7, Italy 26
Offloads: Japan 4, Italy 5
The leading value in each row is bold. Bars are relative to the combined total.
Head-to-head
No previous meetings in our data
