{"id":331612,"date":"2023-09-16T23:34:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T23:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=331612"},"modified":"2023-09-17T01:02:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T01:02:07","slug":"aussie-born-larrikin-tears-through-tongan-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=331612","title":{"rendered":"Aussie-born larrikin tears through Tongan defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mack Hansen may represent <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/ireland\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Ireland\">Ireland<\/a>, but Australia will happily claim him when he makes moves like these.<\/p>\n<p>In Ireland&#x27;s demolition job of Tonga, the Canberra-born winger split the defence wide open to score the third try of the match.<\/p>\n<p>That try (above) was one of eight by the Irish, who wound up winning 59-16.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch all the action from Rugby World Cup 2023 on the home of rugby, Stan Sport.<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/KRnrlm\"><em><strong>Every match ad free, live and on demand in 4K UHD<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other major moment of the match saw Johnny Sexton eclipse Ronan O&#x27;Gara as the highest points scorer for Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6337291140112\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/09\/536511\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny\u00a0Sexton\u00a0becomes Ireland&#x27;s all-time top scorer\" data-vms-id=\"ref:clmmg8jj6002r0js3i3odkbd3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sexton not only moved ahead of O&#x27;Gara, but moved ahead of Welsh legend Neil Jenkins too.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was measured in his response post-match, the on-field celebrations were worthy of the occasion as he was rushed by his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>In the day&#x27;s two other matches, Samoa beat Chile and Wales beat Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Chile were first to score a try in the sixth minute, but didn&#x27;t cross white line again for the rest of the match.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6337294957112\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pickerimage-106.jpg\" alt=\"Samoa\u00a0vs\u00a0Chile RWC every try\" data-vms-id=\"ref:clmminirj002q0jsb9x1iscrh\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Samoa led at half-time, 12-10, having only scored through penalties. It wasn&#x27;t until the first minute of the second half that they crossed the try line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All told, Samoa wound up with five tries to take a commanding 43-10 win.<\/p>\n<p>After their narrow win over Fiji last week, Wales were kept honest by Portugal.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6337294851112\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pickerimage-107.jpg\" alt=\"Wales vs Portugal RWC every try\" data-vms-id=\"ref:clmmimlz9002k0jr02h46huwf\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The eighth-ranked team scored just one try in the first half to lead 14-3 at the break before a triple in the second half to wind up 28-8 winners.<\/p>\n<p>The major talking point of that match was when Portugal&#x27;s Vincent Pinto was sent from the field after he jumped for the ball but made contact with the head of a Welshman Mason Grady with his boot.<\/p>\n<p>Pinto was given a yellow card initially, which was upgraded to red shortly after.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6337299282112\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pickerimage-108.jpg\" alt=\"Red card drawn after boot hits head\" data-vms-id=\"ref:clmmn9u8c002p0jqb7jnz8tam\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Rugby World Cup continues with South Africa facing Romania on Sunday at 11:45pm AEST before Australia look for their second win of the tournament against Fiji\ufeff on Monday at 1:45am AEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Mack Hansen may represent Ireland, but Australia will happily claim him when he makes moves like these. In Ireland&#x27;s demolition job of Tonga, the Canberra-born <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=331612\" title=\"Aussie-born larrikin tears through Tongan defence\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331619,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331612\/revisions\/331619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/331614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}