HERE<\/a> and playing for FREE!<\/p>\nEngland v Papua New Guinea<\/p>\n
Aaron: England by 36-40, first scorer: Herbie Farnworth<\/p>\n
Matt: England 46-50, first scorer: Matty Ashton<\/p>\n
Both our boys are tipping England wins \u2013 but potentially not by enough to get the job done and reach the semi-finals!<\/p>\n
New Zealand v Fiji<\/p>\n
Aaron: New Zealand by 11-15, first scorer: Dane Gagai<\/p>\n
Matt: New Zealand by 21-25, first scorer: Ronaldo Mulitalo<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a straight shoot-out for second spot in Group A as the Kiwis take on Fiji. Both Aaron and Matt think New Zealand will progress, though Matt by a slightly bigger margin. Either way, it will be Stacey Jones\u2019 side who end up in the semi-finals, we think.<\/p>\n
Australia v Cook Islands<\/p>\n
Aaron: Australia by 61+, first scorer: Latrell Mitchell<\/p>\n
Matt: Australia by 61+, first scorer: Jack Bostock<\/p>\n
Not much debate to be had between the boys on this one. They are both going for an Australia win by the biggest margin possible on the predictor, against a Cook Islands team who haven\u2019t looked great so far. The only difference is in the pick for first try-scorer..<\/p>\n
Lebanon v France<\/p>\n
Aaron: Lebanon by 11-15, first scorer: Jacob Kiraz<\/p>\n
Matt: Lebanon by 26-30, first scorer: Jacob Kiraz<\/p>\n
The boys are both tipping Lebanon wins, but by differing margins. However, they are agreed on Cedars superstar Jacob Kiraz being the most likely candidate to go and score the first try \u2013 with France staring down the barrel of a third consecutive victory.<\/p>\n
Tonga v Samoa<\/p>\n
Aaron: Tonga by 6-10, first scorer: Jojo Fifita<\/p>\n
Matt: Tonga by 6-10, first scorer: Jojo Fifita<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a complete match again in how close the lads think Tonga versus Samoa will be \u2013 but depending on who is right about the England game, it will produce a different final outcome! Matt\u2019s margin of victory in the England game means if Tonga do win by between six and ten points, England are through! Aaron is slightly more pessimistic about the chances of racking up the requisite points against PNG \u2013 but still confident Tonga can do them a favour..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the final weekend of the group stage at this year\u2019s Rugby League World Cup \u2013 and there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}