{"id":808105,"date":"2026-07-18T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808105\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:31:10","slug":"wallabies-v-italy-live-updates-australia-look-to-bounce-back-after-losses-to-france-and-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808105\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies v Italy LIVE UPDATES: Australia look to bounce back after losses to France and Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wallabies are not relenting, and they came close to scoring a sixth try in the 39th minute.<\/p>\n<p>But after some lovely passing, Ryan Lonergan just bobbled the ball on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>But it didn\u2019t matter because they had advantage and Len Ikitau was rewarded for an outstanding first half by grabbing a try soon after. The TMO reviewed a few potential forward passes in the lead-up, but there was no clear evidence, so the try stood.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s half-time. What have we just witnessed? Some outstanding, clinical rugby from the Wallabies.<\/p>\n<p>HALF-TIME: Wallabies 38 Italy 5<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rob Valetini is tackled by Italy\u2019s Giulio Marini.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1c413331412f19d5c087aa43622f7cf3ed722bda.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Rob Valetini is tackled by Italy\u2019s Giulio Marini.AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies are not relenting, and they came close to scoring a sixth try in the 39th minute.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-808105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808105","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=808105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}