{"id":28052,"date":"2025-08-25T05:33:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/australia-crushes-samoa-historic-record-at-the-womens-rugby-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:33:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:33:38","slug":"australia-crushes-samoa-historic-record-at-the-womens-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/australia-crushes-samoa-historic-record-at-the-womens-rugby-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia crushes Samoa: Historic record at the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Australia Debuts with Historic Victory in Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Australian team, known as the Wallaroos, began their participation in the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup with a resounding victory, surpassing Samoa with a score of 73-0. This triumph represents the biggest win in Australia&#8217;s history in a World Cup.\n\nDespite being considered favorites, Australia demonstrated their superiority from the start of the match held in Manchester, facing a Samoan team that had the support of a passionate fanbase, although the result did not favor them.\n\nPlayer Katalina Amosa was in charge of opening the scoring in the second minute, starting an Australian dominance that was maintained throughout the match.\n\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\n\n<em>Desiree Miller scored three tries in the first half for Australia.<\/em>\n\nCaitlyn Halse, 18, became the youngest Australian player to participate in a Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup, celebrating the occasion with two tries. Desiree Miller stood out in the first half by scoring a hat-trick, including a try resulting from a set play after a scrum.\n\nEmily Chancellor, Eva Karpani, and Samantha Wood also contributed tries in the first 40 minutes. The Australian defense, which kept a physically strong Samoan team at bay, was a key aspect of the performance, allowing the team to go into halftime with a 45-0 lead.\n\nIn the second half, Samoa showed greater strength, although they did not manage to break the Australian defense. Cecilia Smith, after a good performance in the midfield, extended her team&#8217;s lead, surpassing 50 points.\n\nAdiana Talakai also scored, and her second try, five minutes from the end, ensured that Australia surpassed their previous record of 62 points against South Africa in 2010. Halse closed the match with her second try, sealing a memorable day.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia Debuts with Historic Victory in Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup The Australian team, known as the Wallaroos, began their participation in the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup with a resounding victory, surpassing Samoa with a score of 73-0. This triumph represents the biggest win in Australia&#8217;s history in a World Cup. Despite being considered favorites, Australia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[428,518,7746,7784],"class_list":{"0":"post-28052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-rugby-world-cup","10":"tag-samoa","11":"tag-tries"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28052","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=28052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}