{"id":796895,"date":"2026-07-12T10:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796895\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:46:25","slug":"portugal-trips-canada-in-world-rugby-nations-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796895\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal trips Canada in World Rugby Nations Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">EDMONTON \u2014 Tomas Appleton and Raffaele Storti each scored two tries and Samuel Marques added four conversions as Portugal defeated Canada 38-14 in World Rugby Nations Cup action on Saturday in Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Portugal, ranked No. 15 in the world, led 23rd-ranked Canada 12-7 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was the seventh time the teams have squared off, with Canada winning the first four, albeit the last win came in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Takoda McMullin and Brock Gallagher had tries for the Canadians, who will play Zimbabwe next Saturday in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada battled back in the final minutes last Saturday to earn a 42-42 thrilling draw with Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Tomas Appleton and Raffaele Storti each scored two tries and Samuel Marques added four conversions as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,82],"class_list":["post-796895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}