Japan head coach Eddie Jones said it was an opportunity missed to win a first game in Cardiff against Wales.<\/p>\n
“That could have been a historic win for us but you’ve got to be good enough to take advantage of those mistakes,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We weren’t quite good enough and it was certainly a missed opportunity.”<\/p>\n
Jones said he was proud of his young team but believes they needed to be more clinical.<\/p>\n
“If you watch rugby now, once you get in the 22 and if you don’t take points from that, that’s the difference in the game,” said Jones.<\/p>\n
“We had three opportunities but we didn’t take chances and Wales did. Their points-per-entry was higher than ours.”<\/p>\n
Jones questioned some aspects of the interpretation of New Zealand referee Paul Williams at the contact area.<\/p>\n
“I hope I’m not going to get in trouble for this but there was one penalty for not supporting your weight at the breakdown and it was against us,” said Jones.<\/p>\n
“Anyone watching that game, can you think there was just one ruck where the supporting player was off his feet?<\/p>\n
“That can be the difference between winning and losing. <\/p>\n
“I’m not complaining, I’m just saying sometimes you don’t get the rub of the green. <\/p>\n
“That can happen. You’ve got to suck it up and get on with it. Actually maybe I am complaining!”<\/p>\n
Japan travel to face Jones’ former England side at Allianz Stadium at Twickenham next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan head coach Eddie Jones said it was an opportunity missed to win a first game in Cardiff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-678154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}