Scrumhalf Danny Care's try send undefeated England through to the quarter-finals as Pool D winners with an 18-17 win over Samoa at Stade Pierre-Mauroy on Saturday.
England made it four wins out of four atRUGBY WORLD CUP | Live scoring — England v SamoaAfter Ollie Chessum’s score for England early in the first half, Samoa – who beat Chile and lost to Argentina and Japan by fewer than 10 points – played with ambition and growing confidence, and were rewarded with two tries from Nigel Ah-Wong within five first-half minutes and had two more ruled out by the Television Match Official.
Already confirmed as Pool D winners, England will play the runners-up in Pool C – Australia or, more likely, Fiji – in the quarter-finals in Marseille on Sunday, 15 October.England captain Owen Farrell said of his team’s performance: “It was scrappy. It didn’t feel like the best from us but all credit has to go to Samoa, the way they came out and fired shots at us tonight was tough to deal with at times. We didn’t deal with it discipline-wise, we didn’t deal with it with mistakes at times.
“For us, it was scrappy, we made a lot of errors and there were periods where we didn’t play within our system. That put us under an awful lot of pressure. There are some huge learnings and it was a tough test for next week.” Despite being on the losing side, Samoa fly-half Lima Sopoaga was named the Mastercard Player of the Match and said: “It has been a disappointing couple of weeks, we felt we just didn’t give the jersey the justice it deserved. Tonight I’m proud, we didn’t come away with the chocolates but we left it all out there and that’s all that anyone can ask. I’m incredibly proud of the boys, just a little bit disappointed and just gutted for Samoa and all our fans and supporters.
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