Italy vs Canada
World Cup
26th September
Italy maintained a bonus-point??48-7 win over Canada in their Rugby World Cup Pool B struggle.
Italy made a much superior display to beat Canada and put up an intriguing clash with South Africa on October 4, after beating Namibia 47-22 in an inconsistent performance.
With the Springboks and New Zealand in addition in Pool B, Italy need a triumph if they want to advance to the quarter-finals, along with also their seven-try effort against Canada will fill them.
Tries from 8 Braam Steyn and lock Dean Budd – captain for Sergio Parisse – and two conversions and a penalty from Tommaso Allan gave a strong 17-0 lead at the break to the Azzurri.
Flanker Sebastian Negri went over early in the second half and Italy got their fourth having a penalty try after the Matt Heaton of Canada was sin-binned for illegally bringing a driving maul yards outside.
Canada never gave up and scored a attempt through Andrew Coe but additionally tries from Mattia Bellini, Federico Zani and Matteo Minozzi gave a win to Italy.
Their forwards that steamrolled in the energy-sapping humidity in the Hakatanomori Stadium of Fukuoka built the dominance of italy.
Italy have 10 points but still will need to deal with Springboks and the All Blacks, that are expected to qualify for the quarter-finals, short of an upset of Wednesday’s win for Uruguay over Fiji’s size.
Rampaging forwards Jake Sebastian, Steyn and Polledri Negri, were in no mood to permit a shock within the space of 24 hours and led Even the Italians, who rested several players.
Steyn and Budd exploited a few inadequate defence to give their side a 17-0 lead.
Facing a rout, the Canadians started to make their tackles and started to find some ownership which let them dominate field position, however, butchered several opportunities to get to the scoreboard.
Negri extended Italy’s lead when he blasted over from close range before Canada again failed to capitalise on a chance when DTH van der Merwe made space through the midfield and managed to place Jeff Hassler clear just for Minozzi to create a try-saving tackle about the winger less than 5 metres from the line.
Referee Nigel Owens given a penalty try that secured the bonus point before replacement winger Bellini to get the Italians crossed with approximately 20 seconds.
Owens made some controversy when he awarded a try to Ardron for the television game official Rowan Kitt to rule out it to get a knock-on ahead of the ball landed in the hands of the No 8.
The conclusion was met by a chorus of boos after the underdogs scored the try of the game by winger Andrew Coe however, the audience, now firmly behind the Canadians, rose to their toes minutes after.
Italy, however, finished strongly, together with all substitute hooker Zani shunted over from a driving maul before Bellini put Minozzi in to close out the scoring.
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