To Rugby World Cup game against Samoa Tanaka “I want to fight as a team” Oct. 1 18:35

At the Rugby World Cup Japan tournament, the Japanese national team practiced in Tokyo for the third league match against Samoa, and has been a 34-year-old veteran who has contributed to victory in the two matches so far. Shiro Tanaka spoke with enthusiasm that “I want to fight as a team because there is more Japanese team power”.

Japan, who is the leader of the group in the first league two consecutive wins, will play Samoa with one win and one loss so far in Round 3 of this month.

On the first day, in the morning, the first 15 minutes were practiced in Tokyo and released to the press. The players were divided into two groups to warm up and run.

In the following private practice, we confirmed the tactics.

Tanaka, who started out as a scrum half in the game against Ireland at the press conference after the practice and took the reversal try, said, “If you just remembered the game against Ireland, we would mistakenly think they were strong. I want to prepare as usual and concentrate on what we do. "

After that, he said with enthusiasm about Samoa, “Individuals have strong and destructive players, but I think the team has more power in Japan, and I want to fight as a team.”

In addition, Raffaeletimy, a Samoa center, said, “It's a special game for the family, but I don't think about anything special so that it won't affect my performance. And concentrated.

Nakajima "If you do it yourself, there is no problem"

Rugby national team scrum players and their coaches talked about the next Samoa fight.

Prof Nakajima Isirelli, who participated in the game against Ireland, said, “Samoa players are heavy and strong in assembling scrum, but do n’t think too much.

Coach Hasegawa, who is in charge of scrum coaching, first looked back on the game against Ireland, which made a historic victory, "I think that Japan has gained power by forming a very strong Irish scrum in the world." .

On top of that, about the game against Samoa, “I would like to make more corrections because all of Forward's work will not work for 80 minutes unless I do my job. I want to analyze the scrum of Samoa against Scotland and use it for the next game.” I was talking.