The referee whistled the end of the first half, 9-12 won Ireland , and some European players who walked to the locker rooms were overtaken by Japanese rivals who entered together and jogged. It happens many times and it does not have, it is obvious, incidence on the scoreboard, but the detail showed the degree of concentration on which the Asian hosts have built their first surprise at the 2019 Rugby World Cup . This Saturday they defeated Ireland, one of the favorites to raise the title, which also came as 'number one' of the controversial international ranking.

But, beyond that concentration, the Asian team has beaten an elite team showing an orderly, dynamic and very supportive rugby . With discipline and enough office to overcome a beginning in which two very precise kicks hung by the Irish opening Carty, a substitute for Sexton, disarmed the Japanese pressure defense. The equator of the first half ran and Ireland went 3-12 ahead of the trials of Ringrose and Kearney. There the Japanese set began to grow. And it grew so much that the Irish did not score again.

It did not matter that the clover had on the grass a set with more than a dozen regular holders. That his front be considered one of the most powerful and dominant. The Japanese adjusted, hardened their plates, arrived on time to the supports on the ground. They won balls and began to move them across the field, hunting for spaces with less occupation. With the possession came the territorial domain and the blows transformed by the Tamura opening to press the marker. 9-12 in between and the feeling that Ireland, more incisive when he found the oval, was going to sentence.

There was no 'green' attack after the interval . The Japanese team set the pace again. Very involved in the crash, watch out for all the loose balls. He accumulated attack phases, as his rivals do on Saturday. And on one occasion when he entered the opposite 22, he blew the oval from hand to hand so that Fukuoka rehearsed stuck to the band. The extra points of the transformation (16-12) were extended by another subsequent penalty stroke that raised the local advantage to seven (19-12).

In Ireland, with little control, the pace changed and the clock against it, nothing came out. He had already lost a touche, an art in which she is a teacher, in the opposite 22 and missed her incipient offense of the final minutes by retaining the ball on the ground before the pressure of the defense. His essay never came; He still had to go back 70 meters to stop a local counterattack on the last meter. The end of the game surprised the greens, overcome and bewildered, trying to seal their own brand line. The symbolic image of defeat.

Japanese rugby, constantly growing for years, conquers a victory that shakes the hierarchies of this championship. Descend to Ireland from the podium of the favorite sets to the rung of the earthly. It threatens Scotland, given the decisive meeting they will play later, with a elimination in the group stage. And it allows the hosts to aspire to enter for the first time in the quarterfinals of a World Cup. But the dreams of his followers fly this Saturday very high. The host has given himself the big party.

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