{"id":27773,"date":"2025-08-24T05:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/australia-crushes-samoa-historic-victory-in-the-womens-rugby-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T05:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:34:07","slug":"australia-crushes-samoa-historic-victory-in-the-womens-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/australia-crushes-samoa-historic-victory-in-the-womens-rugby-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia crushes Samoa: Historic victory in the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER, England \u2013 The Wallaroos kicked off their Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup campaign with a dominant victory, achieving a historic 73-0 triumph over Samoa on Saturday.\n\nThis victory represents Australia&#8217;s largest margin of victory in a World Cup.\n\nDespite being the favorites in the match, Australia demonstrated their superiority from the start in Manchester, facing a tough Samoan team that had the support of a passionate fanbase throughout the match, despite the adverse result.\n\nThe hooker Katalina Amosa opened the scoring in the second minute, and from then on, the dominance was total.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0823%2Fr1535562_2_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\nCaitlyn Halse, 18, fullback, became the youngest Australian player to participate in a Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup and celebrated the occasion with two tries.\n\nDesiree Miller left her mark on the tournament with a hat-trick in the first half, the third try the product of an excellent set play after a scrum that led the left winger to score on the right side.\n\nEmily Chancellor, Eva Karpani, and Samantha Wood also contributed tries in the first 40 minutes.\n\n<p>Un aspecto que seguramente complaci\u00f3 a la entrenadora Jo Yapp fue el desempe\u00f1o defensivo de su equipo. Australia se enfrent\u00f3 a un equipo samoano muy f\u00edsico, pero su defensa se mantuvo firme, lo que les permiti\u00f3 llegar al descanso con una ventaja de 45-0.<\/p>\n\nSamoa showed improvement in the second half and spent time in Australian territory. The Wallaroos&#8217; discipline at the breakdown affected them, but Samoa failed to find a way to break their defense.\n\nCecilia Smith was rewarded for her work in the center of the field, leading her team to surpass 50 points.\n\nAdiana Talakai scored after a lineout, and although Samoa continued to fight, their second try five minutes from the end surpassed Australia&#8217;s previous record, which was 62 points against South Africa in 2010.\n\nHalse closed a memorable afternoon for her and her team with her second try, sealing the final result.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANCHESTER, England \u2013 The Wallaroos kicked off their Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup campaign with a dominant victory, achieving a historic 73-0 triumph over Samoa on Saturday. This victory represents Australia&#8217;s largest margin of victory in a World Cup. Despite being the favorites in the match, Australia demonstrated their superiority from the start in Manchester, facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[428,203,7746,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-27773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-rugby","10":"tag-samoa","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}