{"id":239400,"date":"2025-10-25T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239400\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T07:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:37:17","slug":"wallabies-v-japan-live-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239400\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies v Japan: Live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s halftime, and the Wallabies are holding a 14-3 lead over Japan.<\/p>\n<p>It could have been more, but for a couple of disallowed tries to Carlo Tizzano just before the break. Those two came after an earlier dive by Tizzano at the line also looked like a try, but was never checked.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Australia\u2019s Josh Flook runs to scores a try.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bc817e1d518c521cd3763e75e31743c581bb01dd.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Josh Flook runs to scores a try.Credit: AP<\/p>\n<p>The wet weather has seen a stop-start affair, and Japan have barely had any attacking possession. They\u2019ve also conceded two yellow cards after giving away penalties trying to stop the Wallabies in their own quarter.<\/p>\n<p>By and large, they have done that but the Wallabies appear to be getting on top in the forwards and that\u2019s where they\u2019ll direct their force in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s makeshift second team looks a little clunky, which is probably no shock given they\u2019ve barely played together.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of nice moments out wide from the Wallabies have shown there is potential out wide, but the game is a tense and gritty affair in slippery conditions that will probably never turn expansive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Australia\u2019s Lukhan Salakaia-Loto is tackled.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7faca97c83eb8dd54662f1cc28068519fb7ff071.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Lukhan Salakaia-Loto is tackled.Credit: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s halftime, and the Wallabies are holding a 14-3 lead over Japan. It could have been more, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-239400","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\/239400","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=239400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}