{"id":30065,"date":"2025-08-31T05:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/wales-eliminated-from-womens-rugby-world-cup-canada-defines-group-b\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T05:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:32:29","slug":"wales-eliminated-from-womens-rugby-world-cup-canada-defines-group-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/wales-eliminated-from-womens-rugby-world-cup-canada-defines-group-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales Eliminated from Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: Canada Defines Group B"},"content":{"rendered":"The Wales selection was knocked out of the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup after being surpassed by Canada, with a score of 42-0 at the Salford Community Stadium.\n\nAfter a 38-8 defeat to Scotland in the opening match the previous weekend, Wales needed to beat Canada, ranked second in the world, to keep their quarter-final hopes alive.\n\nAlthough they dominated the territory and possession at first, Canada took the lead with a score of 28-0 shortly after the half-hour mark, thanks to the two tries by McKinley Hunt and those by Alysha Corrigan and Asia Hogan-Rochester.\n\nIn the second half, Taylor Perry and Brittany Kassil scored, while Georgia Evans was cautioned with a yellow card. Sophie de Goede converted all six tries, demonstrating Canada&#8217;s potential.\n\nCanada secured its place in the quarter-finals after Scotland&#8217;s victory over Fiji, which also confirmed Wales&#8217; elimination. Wales and Fiji will face each other in a group stage match next weekend.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0830%2Fr1538700_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Jugadoras de Gales en la Copa Mundial Femenina de Rugby.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Gales se prepara para la fase de grupos de la Copa Mundial Femenina de Rugby.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nWales, who were without co-captains Alex Callender and Kate Williams due to injuries, conceded a try after 55 seconds against Scotland, but reacted to put pressure on Canada.\n\nLisa Neumann was close to catching a ball, and Bethan Lewis failed to secure a cross-pass near the try line.\n\nWith Wales&#8217; lineout failing, Canada took advantage of the first 10 minutes and increased the pressure in the opposing field, which led to Hunt scoring under the posts.\n\nHunt&#8217;s try, after an assist from Alex Tessier and De Goede, was a hard blow for Wales, who then suffered three more tries in five minutes.\n\nCorrigan was the first to score in the 26th minute, completing a play that stretched the Welsh defense, while Hunt celebrated his second try shortly after.\n\nSince the restart, Hogan-Rochester broke through on the wing, running 60 meters to score the bonus try for Canada.\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><p>Amy Cokayne: The RAF officer and former New Zealand player driving England&#8217;s scrum<\/p><\/li><li><p>Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: England makes 13 changes for Samoa clash<\/p><\/li><li><p>&#8216;Surreal&#8217;: Halse shines and becomes Australia&#8217;s youngest World Cup debutant<\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n\nA try by Gabrielle Senft was disallowed for some infringements after the break, although Evans was shown a yellow card for a high tackle.\n\nWith 14 players, Wales was even more outmatched when Canada, repeating the strategy, recycled the ball for Perry to score, before Kassil scored after a maul.\n\nKassil&#8217;s try came with 26 minutes remaining, but Canada saw forward Olivia DeMerchant cautioned with a yellow card for a high tackle, and managed the game in the final minutes, resisting Wales&#8217; effort.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wales selection was knocked out of the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup after being surpassed by Canada, with a score of 42-0 at the Salford Community Stadium. After a 38-8 defeat to Scotland in the opening match the previous weekend, Wales needed to beat Canada, ranked second in the world, to keep their quarter-final hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1467,203,523,1192],"class_list":{"0":"post-30065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-rugby","10":"tag-wales","11":"tag-womens-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30065","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=30065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}