{"id":155264,"date":"2025-09-19T22:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/155264\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:11:10","slug":"canada-80-minutes-from-creating-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/155264\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada 80 minutes from creating history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Having watched his side storm past New Zealand, Canada<\/a> head coach Kevin Rouet urged his players to \u201cfinish the job\u201d in next Saturday\u2019s Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup<\/a> 2025<\/a> final.<\/p>\n

Canada blew the Black Ferns away at Ashton Gate on Friday night, running in four tries in a dominant first half and ultimately seeing out a 34-19 triumph in Bristol.<\/p>\n

Victory sealed their place in a second World Cup final, 11 years after they lost to England<\/a> in Paris, and maintained their quest for a first global title.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited already. I said to the girls to stop crying because we have a job to do in eight days. That\u2019s the mindset. We need to finish the job and be ready in eight days,\u201d Rouet told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt it already one and a half years ago that we could do something and I am happy we are one game away from achieving what we want.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited for next weekend. I want it to be next weekend now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canada have not shied away from the fact they are in England to win the World Cup and used it as their mission statement to raise CAN$1 million to boost their funding ahead of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Since losing narrowly to England in the World Cup semi-finals in New Zealand<\/a> three years ago, the North Americans have grown in belief.<\/p>\n

\"Team Match Summary \"Team <\/p>\n

Canada lifted the Pacific Four Series<\/a> title in 2024, were second to New Zealand on points difference this year and are now unbeaten in their last three meetings with the Black Ferns.<\/p>\n

Alex Tessier scored her side\u2019s crucial fifth try early in the second half and the Canada captain suggested her team is confident they can go all the way at Twickenham.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the plan,\u201d Tessier said. \u201cWe still believe. We are going to be ready for next weekend, we are super excited, that was a huge boost in confidence today and we are going to be ready for next Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the level of Canada\u2019s performance in the opening quarter, Tessier added: \u201cThat\u2019s exactly where we are supposed to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the goal, one step at a time. Now we will focus on the final next weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having watched his side storm past New Zealand, Canada head coach Kevin Rouet urged his players to \u201cfinish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-155264","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\/155264","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=155264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}