{"id":938072,"date":"2026-10-23T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938072\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:48:14","slug":"rugby-league-world-cup-2026-live-scores-samoa-vs-wales-results-tonga-vs-lebanon-updates-latest-news-samoa-send-world-cup-statement-with-welsh-bloodbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938072\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby League World Cup 2026 LIVE Scores: Samoa vs Wales results, Tonga vs Lebanon updates, latest news; Samoa send World Cup \u2018statement\u2019 with Welsh bloodbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well that was a thrashing in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n<p>Having been beaten 40-0 last weekend by the Jillaroos, Samoa bounced back to beat Wales 76-0.<\/p>\n<p>10 different try-scorers, eight players with over 100 running metres, 1708 run metres to 484, 66 per cent of possession, 20 linebreaks to nil, 17 offloads to nil, and just six missed tackles to 61.<\/p>\n<p>On debut, Tyra Ekepati scored a hat-trick, while Destiny Mino-Sinapati and Mercedez Taulelai-Siala scored doubles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to come out here and make a statement, and I&#8217;m really proud of the effort the girls put in tonight,&#8221; Samoa skipper Evania Isa&#8217;ako said on Seven&#8217;s coverage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/68bcfb336b079e138d17c577c3caaafc230fc7a5.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Ivana Lolesio celebrating her own try in Samoa\u2019s thrashing of Wales.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well that was a thrashing in every sense of the word. Having been beaten 40-0 last weekend by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-938072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938072","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=938072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}