{"id":142346,"date":"2025-09-14T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142346\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:24:09","slug":"they-know-how-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142346\/","title":{"rendered":"‘They know how to win’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alysha Corrigan<\/a> expects a stern challenge from the Black Ferns<\/a> when Canada<\/a> face them in a 2025 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup<\/a> semi-final next week.<\/p>\n

The wing scored two tries as the North Americans beat Australia<\/a> 46-5 in Bristol to book their place in the final four.<\/p>\n

Over the past two years K\u00e9vin Rouet\u2019s side have enjoyed positive results against New Zealand.<\/p>\n

In 2024 they registered their first-ever victory over the reigning world champions and earlier this season drew 27-27 in Christchurch.<\/p>\n

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Those results have supported Canada\u2019s case as World Cup contenders plenty and their charge to second overall in the World Rugby rankings.<\/p>\n

Even with those results so close to mind Corrigan knows that the six-time world champions will not be resting on their laurels heading into the Friday night clash.<\/p>\n

With a history of winning big games when they matter most, the 28-year-old Olympic silver medalist \u00a0took a measured approach to the notion of taking on such a historically successful side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can take confidence from our performances over the last year, whether it was against New Zealand<\/a> or whoever we played,\u201d Corrigan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think New Zealand\u2019s not a team to look down on. They\u2019re an incredible team. They have how many World Cups. They know how to play knockout rugby. They know how to win.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be an exciting game and we\u2019re looking forward to that challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canada<\/a> enjoyed their best performance of the tournament against Australia.<\/p>\n

In the opening half the Canucks scored five tries to take a firm grasp of the contest, with only Desiree Miller<\/a>\u2019s sixth minute effort acting as the only bump before they closed out the game in the second half.<\/p>\n

There was a fine balance to everything that Canada did. And a stark contrast to their pool game wins over Scotland<\/a>, Wales<\/a> and Fiji<\/a>, which were far from perfect as the side gave the ball away 64 times and conceded 24 penalties.<\/p>\n

Rouet implored his side to switch mindset ahead of the knockouts to \u201cdo or die rugby\u201d. Which they did in style.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the best thing about knockout rugby is, you need to find the balance of confidence and winning the game,\u201d Corrigan said. \u201cYou saw that in the first 40 versus the second 40.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can put a game away in the first 40 and then game manage in the second 40 \u2013 we\u2019re happy with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about saving bodies when we can and just being able to have a six-day turnaround and be able to perform next weekend as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alysha Corrigan expects a stern challenge from the Black Ferns when Canada face them in a 2025 Women\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-142346","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\/142346","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=142346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}