More info. Just four teams are left standing at the Rugby World Cup in Japan. England comfortably beat Australia in the first quarter-final before Ireland were thumped by New Zealand. The third quarter-final clash saw Wales edge France by just a single point, while hosts Japan were knocked out by South Africa.
None of the quarter-finals required extra-time but will we see it this weekend as a place in the Rugby World Cup final beckons? If the final is still tied, a sudden death period will take place with the first team to score any points declared the winner.
The kicks will be taken from the 22m line - directly in front of the posts, on the 15m line to the left of the posts and on the 15m line to the right of the posts. If the number of successful kicks are equal, sudden death will take place until there is a winner.
What happens if the final ends in a draw? Unlike in the pool phase, the rules are different for the knockout stages. Bonus points are no longer applied so a winner must be decided on the day. Rugby World Cup News. The draw for the Rugby World Cup takes place on Monday, a little over 13 months after the Springboks lifted the trophy in Tokyo. Could England go one better this time around and lift the Webb Ellis Trophy? Can Scotland atone for their poor tournament in which saw them crash out before the knockouts?
Will Ireland shake their reputation as perennial World Cup underachievers? A lot will be determined by each team's opponents in the pool stages, and all will be revealed when the draw takes place in Paris at Twenty teams will contest the tournament in France in three years' time; 12 have already qualified by virtue of finishing in the top three of their respective pools in the edition, and they have been put into the top three bands for the draw.
Due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the international calendar, the World Rugby rankings as of January 1 this year determined which band each of those countries was placed in. The fourth and fifth teams in each pool will be made up of eight countries that will emerge via qualifying matches, including representatives from Europe, Oceania and the Americas. The finals work the same way as the tournament with the first two teams in each pool progressing to the quarter-finals, which will be contested by knock-out matches.
If we suppose the top-ranked teams each win their pools and the second-ranked teams finish runners-up then the quarter-finals in could look something like this…. Wales could prove major beneficiaries from the rankings that shaped the Rugby World Cup pool draw in Paris. Positions after the autumn Tests would normally be used to form the draw bands, but teams like South Africa and Japan did not play. Wales dropped from fourth in January to ninth on the back of a year that saw them win just three out of 10 games under new head coach Wayne Pivac.
While Wales find themselves among the top four seeds of the 12 automatic qualifiers for , host nation France were in band two — rather than enjoying the band one status they would have had based on current rankings — while Scotland and Argentina moved from band two to band three.
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