{"id":41087,"date":"2019-10-06T03:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41087"},"modified":"2019-10-06T03:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T03:22:23","slug":"rugby-world-cup-bonus-point-win-keeps-host-japan-on-course-for-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41087","title":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup: Bonus-point win keeps host Japan on course for quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Host Japan withstood a resolute challenge from Samoa to secure a crucial bonus-point victory in a 38-19 victory in their <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/specials\/sport\/rugby-world-cup-japan-2019-spt-intl\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby World Cup <\/a>Pool A match at the City of Toyota Stadium Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Kotaro Matsushima&#8217;s fourth and final try in the dying seconds wrapped up a third straight win for Japan, with the extra point vital in its historic bid to reach the quarterfinals of Rugby&#8217;s global showpiece for the first time.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Samoa, battling to keep its own hopes alive, played a full part in a compelling clash and a late converted try from Henry Taefu set up a nailbiting finish as his side pulled to within seven points with the clock counting down.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Host Japan withstood a resolute challenge from Samoa to secure a crucial bonus-point victory in a 38-19 victory in their Rugby World Cup Pool A match at the City of Toyota Stadium Saturday.Kotaro Matsushima&#8217;s fourth and final try in the dying seconds wrapped up a third straight win for Japan, with the extra point vital&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}