{"id":124115,"date":"2025-09-06T22:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124115\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:15:17","slug":"wallaroos-book-quarter-finals-spot-despite-losing-to-england-usa-miss-out-on-points-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124115\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallaroos book quarter finals spot despite losing to England; USA miss out on points difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia lost and won and the United States won and lost at the Women’s Rugby World Cup on Sunday morning (AEST).<\/p>\n

Despite copping a 47-7 hiding at the hands of England, it was the Wallaroos who took the last quarter final spot from their American rivals.<\/p>\n

USA scorched Samoa 60-0 earlier, but even that wasn’t enough as the Eagles missed the quarterfinals for the first time in 11 years on points difference.<\/p>\n

Watch every match of the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 streaming live and on-demand on Stan Sport<\/a> with Wallaroos matches also live on the 9Network and 9Now<\/p>\n

England won their 30th successive game, tying their own world record streak that ended when it lost the 2022 World Cup final to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

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Kaitlan Leaney reacts during the loss\u00a0World Rugby via Getty Images<\/p>\n

After the big win by USA, Australia would only fail to reach the quarters if it lost by at least 76 points and didn’t get a bonus point.<\/p>\n

That looked far less likely from the sixth minute when hooker Adiana Talakai crashed over following a scrum penalty for the Wallaroos and a lineout drive.<\/p>\n

Also in the first quarter, fellow front-rower Eva Karpani was held up over the line and England’s only points were a Jess Breach try from a forward pass.<\/p>\n

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Australia’s storming start rattled England into uncharacteristic errors in front of a near sell-out crowd, but when they strung 12 phases and lock Abbie Ward scored in the 32nd minute, the Red Roses had clicked and pulled away, scoring seven tries.<\/p>\n

Sadia Kabeya and Kelsey Clifford went over twice, along with Ward and Sarah Bern, who finished the game in the sin-bin. Their 47 points were the second most Australia have ever conceded in the World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have trust in the plan,\u201d Kabeya said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did what we needed to do. We’ve got huge carriers across our forward pack. We’ve got threats across the park, our forwards can’t take all the credit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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England’s Jess Breach celebrates scoring a try\u00a0CameraSport via Getty Images<\/p>\n

England’s only apparent concerns were injuries to prop Hannah Botterman, who suffered a back spasm, and fullback Ellie Kildunne, the 2024 world player of the year who took a heavy knock to her head.<\/p>\n

As a result of the humbling loss to the host nation, Australia will face Pool B winner Canada, who put away Scotland 40-19.<\/p>\n

Australia celebrated making the last eight by hoisting their coach Jo Yapp, a former England World Cup captain.<\/p>\n

Yapp is leaving the Wallaroos after the World Cup after nearly two years in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia lost and won and the United States won and lost at the Women’s Rugby World Cup on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-124115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}