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Current World Ranking: 8<\/a> (81.57 points)2025-07-18 \u2013 Samoa 12, Scotland 41 (Auckland)
2025-07-12 \u2013 Fiji 29, Scotland 14 (Suva)
2025-07-05 \u2013 NZ Maori 26, Scotland 29 (Whangarei)
2025-03-15 \u2013 France 35, Scotland 16 (Paris)
2025-03-08 \u2013 Scotland 35, Wales 29 (Edinburgh)<\/p>\n
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 13 14 1 2 15 it\u2019s an all-domestic selection from Gregor Townsend, with every player in the match day squad from either Edinburgh or Glasgow in the URC \u201cWe certainly believe the players can get us wins against any team we come up against, but it\u2019s really then down to them. It\u2019s how you adapt during a game if you\u2019re ahead, if you\u2019re behind, what\u2019s working, what\u2019s not working. The quicker we get into that cycle, whether it\u2019s at training, in particular this weekend, of enabling them to make decisions, the closer we will be to playing at our best.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo far the team has adapted well to the travel and have good clarity here in Edinburgh. This game is another opportunity to elevate our standard of play, work on playing faster and more physical as we build to where we want to be at test match level.\u201d<\/p>\n Brisk but mostly sunny conditions are on the forecast. Prior to the win over Samoa the Eagles were not in great form and without their overseas contingent look short on power up front. They will again be at a disadvantage in the lineout, and don\u2019t have anyone with game breaking speed in the backline. A stronger Eagles side lost by 35 points at home to the Scots a year ago, so it\u2019s hard to see anything but a similar result on Saturday. Scotland are clear favorites in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n Replacements: 16 Harri Morris, 17 Nathan McBeth, 18 Murphy Walker, 19 Alex Samuel, 20 Max Williamson, 21 Magnus Bradbury, 22 George Horne, 23 Ross Thompson<\/p>\n Replacements: 16 Sean McNulty, 17 Payton Telea-Ilalio, 18 Maliu Niuafe, 19 Tevita Naqali, 20 Makeen Alikhan, 21 Ethan McVeigh, 22 Tavite Lopeti, 23 Luke Carty<\/p>\n Date: Saturday, November 1 Referee: Dami\u00e1n Schneider (Argentina) HEAD-TO-HEAD (7): ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/logo-usa-thumbnailx.png\"){kind=logo}
Current World Ranking: 15<\/a> (67.40 points)
2025-09-14 \u2013 USA 29, Samoa 13 (Denver)
2025-09-06 \u2013 USA 21, Japan 47 (Sacramento)
2025-08-22 \u2013 Canada 34, USA 20 (Calgary)
2025-07-19 \u2013 USA 5, England 40\u00a0(Washington DC)
2025-07-12 \u2013 USA 20, Spain 31 (Charlotte)<\/p>\n
\nIN
\nOUT<\/p>\n
\nPatrick Harrison
\nEwan Ashman<\/p>\n
\nD\u2019Arcy Rae
\nElliot Millar-Mills<\/p>\n
\nScott Cummings
\nGrant Gilchrist<\/p>\n
\nMarshall Sykes
\nGregor Brown<\/p>\n
\nLiam McConnell
\nAndy Onyeama-Christie<\/p>\n
\nDylan Richardson
\nRory Darge<\/p>\n
\nJack Dempsey
\nMatt Fagerson<\/p>\n
\nAdam Hastings
\nFergus Burke<\/p>\n
\nDuhan van der Merwe
\nArron Reed<\/p>\n
\nOllie Smith
\nRory Hutchinson<\/p>\n
\nDarcy Graham
\nKyle Steyn<\/p>\n
\nIN
\nOUT<\/p>\n
\nEzekiel Lindenmuth
\nJack Iscaro<\/p>\n
\nKaleb Geiger
\nKapeli Pifeleti<\/p>\n
\nErich Storti
\nRufus McLean<\/p>\n
\nDuhan van der Merwe will be the most experienced man on the pitch as he celebrates his 50th cap for Scotland\u2026 the powerhouse winger is one of four Scots who suited up for the British & Irish Lions on their tour of Australia, the others Rory Sutherland, Scott Cummings, and Darcy Graham
\nat the other end of the career spectrum, 21-year-old flanker Liam McConnell is set for a test debut, while 24-year-old reserve hooker Harri Morris is also uncapped
\nheadlining the the stars missing for the Scots are openside flanker Rory Darge, flyhalf Finn Russell, and midfield combo Patrick Tuipulotu and Huw Jones
\nScott Lawrence has named an effective unchanged lineup from the team that beat Samoa, with Jack Iscaro and Kapeli Pifeleti both tied up with their French clubs and Rufus McLean not considered to face his former team due to his prior sentence on domestic abuse charges
\nall but one of the Eagles match day squad appeared in Major League Rugby this past season, with 21-year-old collegiate star Dom Besag the only exception\u2026 Toby Fricker has since returned to Bristol Bears and is the only European-based inclusion
\nfive leading front rowers are unavailable to Eagles due to club commitments\u2026 France-based duo Renger van Eerten and Nafi Ma\u2019afu are missing\u2026 while the injury list includes star flyhalf AJ MacGinty and established forwards Sam Golla, Ben Bonasso, and Jamason Fa\u2019anana-Schultz
\nAdam Hastings is the only Scotsman starter who also featured in the famous defeat to the Eagles at Houston in 2018\u2026 reserve scrumhalf George Horne was at No9 that day\u2026 none of the victorious USA side remain with only a handful still active players<\/p>\n Gregor Townsend<\/a>\u00a0(Head Coach)<\/p>\n Scott Lawrence<\/a>\u00a0(Head Coach)<\/p>\n
SCOTLAND
1 Rory Sutherland, 2 Patrick Harrison, 3 D\u2019Arcy Rae, 4 Scott Cummings, 5 Marshall Sykes, 6 Liam McConnell, 7 Dylan Richardson, 8 Jack Dempsey, 9 Jamie Dobie, 10 Adam Hastings, 11 Duhan van der Merwe, 12 Stafford McDowall (capt.), 13 Ollie Smith, 14 Darcy Graham, 15 Kyle Rowe<\/p>\n
USA
1 Ezekiel Lindenmuth, 2 Kaleb Geiger, 3 Pono Davis, 4 Marno Redelinghuys, 5 Jason Damm (capt.), 6 Vili Helu, 7 Cory Daniel, 8 Paddy Ryan, 9 Ruben de Haas, 10 Christopher Hilsenbeck, 11 Toby Fricker, 12 Tommaso Boni, 13 Dom Besag, 14 Mitch Wilson, 15 Erich Storti<\/p>\n
Venue: Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Kickoff: 17:40 local (10:40 Pacific, 13:40 Eastern)
Weather Forecast: sunny, 46\u00b0F (8\u00b0C), wind SW 13-19mph (21-31km\/h)
Broadcasts: Paramount+<\/a> (USA), DAZN<\/a> (Canada), RugbyPass TV<\/a><\/p>\n
Assistants: Gianluca Gnecchi (Italy) & Katsuki Furuse (Japan)
TMO: Leo Colgan (Ireland)<\/p>\n\u00a0Scotland 6, USA 1
2024-07-12 \u2013 USA 7, Scotland 42 (Washington DC)
2018-06-16 \u2013 USA 30, Scotland 29 (Houston)
2015-09-27 \u2013 Scotland 39, USA 16 (Leeds)
2014-06-07 \u2013 USA 6, Scotland 24 (Houston)
2003-10-20 \u2013 Scotland 39, USA 15 (Brisbane)
2002-06-02 \u2013 USA 23, Scotland 65 (San Francisco)
2000-11-04 \u2013 Scotland 53, USA 6 (Edinburgh)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USA opens their end-of-year tour in Scotland on Saturday, appearing at Murrayfield for the first time in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-254810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254810","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=254810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}