Hong Kong\u2019s men have ended their Nations Cup in South America on a high, producing a thrilling fightback to beat Uruguay 42-20 in Montevideo on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Trailing 26-13 at half-time, Logan Asplin\u2019s side appeared destined to lose for the third week in a row, having been beaten heavily by Samoa and Chile, only to stun their opponents, who are ranked seven places higher and have appeared at the past five Rugby World Cups.<\/p>\n
Paul Altier kicked a long-range penalty at the death to seal a famous victory, in a game that featured six lead changes and swung back and forth from the start.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re delighted,\u201d Josh Hrstich, the Hong Kong captain, said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a tough four weeks for us, searching for that performance that we can really hang our hat on and show the rugby world what we can do.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been a lot of questions about who we are and whether we deserve to be here. I think today we showed the world we are a team to be reckoned with when we want to turn up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The home side were well in control early on, largely thanks to hooker Joaquin Myszka, who scored a hat-trick inside 25 minutes, crossing twice from close range and once from a powerful maul. Manuel Diana, the No 8, added another as Los Teros built a commanding advantage by the break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s men have ended their Nations Cup in South America on a high, producing a thrilling fightback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[320096,385077,64,63,140738,30330,385080,10340,385079,385075,108871,385076,385081,108877,385078,108874,203222,760,85],"class_list":["post-809958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-alex-post","tag-alfonso-vidal","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brendon-nell","tag-chile","tag-francisco-gonzalez-capdevila","tag-hong-kong","tag-jean-cotarmanach","tag-joaquin-myszka","tag-josh-hrstich","tag-juan-manuel-alonso","tag-lachlan-doheny","tag-logan-asplin","tag-manuel-diana","tag-matt-worley","tag-montevideo","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809958","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=809958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}