Date : Saturday, July 22, 2023 Kick Off : 07:50 Venue : Sapporo Dome Tournament : Pacific Nations Cup Round : pool stage
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Japan

22LB

Samoa

Match Japan vs Samoa

Match between Japan squad and Samoa squad was played at Sapporo Dome as of round #1 of Pacific Nations Cup .

Lineups

Game sheet Japan vs Samoa
YC	RC	Penalty	Conversion	Try	Players		Players	Try	Conversion	Penalty	YC
					Keita INAGAKI	1	Jordan LAY
					Atsushi SAKATE	2	Luteru TOLAI
					Jiwon GU	3	Paul ALO-EMILE
					James MOORE	4	Brian ALAINU'UESE
				5'	Amato FAKATAVA	5	Michael CURRY
					Jack CORNELSEN	6	Taleni SEU				15'
					Kazuki HIMENO	7	Alamanda MOTUGA	36'
	29'				Michael LEITCH	8	So'otala FA'ASO'O
					Yutaka NAGARE	9	Jonathan TAUMATEINE	47'
		18' 41' 46' 56' 60'	6'		Seungsin LEE	10	Christian LEALI'IFANO		37' 49' 63'	24'
					Jone NAIKABULA	11	Tumua MANU	62'
					Shogo NAKANO	12	Duncan PAIA'AUA
					Dylan RILEY	13	Ulupano SEUTENI
					Kotaro MATSUSHIMA	14	Neria FOMA'I
					Ryohei YAMANAKA	15	Danny TOALA

					Shota HORIE	16	Ray NIUIA
					Craig MILLAR	17	Tietie TUIMAUGA
					Shinnosuke KAKINAGA	18	Charlie FAUMUINA
					Uwe HELU	19	Genesis MAMEA LEMALU
					Shota FUKUI	20	Miracle FAI'ILAGI
					Naoto SAITO	21	Ere ENARI
					Rikiya MATSUDA	22	Martini TALAPUSI
					Tomoki OSADA	23	Ed FIDOW
Replacements
NAKANO 🡇 🡅 FUKUI 54'						#1	52' ALO-EMILE 🡇 🡅 FAUMUINA
NAGARE 🡇 🡅 SAITO 54'						#2	52' TOLAI 🡇 🡅 NIUIA
SAKATE 🡇 🡅 HORIE 60'						#3	58' FOMA'I 🡇 🡅 FIDOW
INAGAKI 🡇 🡅 MILLAR 60'						#4	58' FA'ASO'O 🡇 🡅 MAMEA LEMALU
RILEY 🡇 🡅 OSADA 60'						#5	58' ALAINU'UESE 🡇 🡅 FAI'ILAGI
FAKATAVA 🡇 🡅 HELU 64'						#6	64' TOALA 🡇 🡅 TALAPUSI
GU 🡇 🡅 KAKINAGA 65'						#7	67' TAUMATEINE 🡇 🡅 ENARI
LEE 🡇 🡅 MATSUDA 68'						#8	70' LAY 🡇 🡅 TUIMAUGA

Interesting datas⁽¹⁾

Japan	VS	Samoa
900 kg (112.50 kg)	Pack weight (average)	966 kg (120.75 kg)
30 ans	Forwards average age	29 ans
29 ans	Backs average age	29 ans
195 cm	Tallest player	202 cm
Japan : 53% (8/15) Australia : 13% (2/15) Fiji : 13% (2/15) South Korea : 7% (1/15) Tonga : 7% (1/15) South Africa : 7% (1/15)	Differents nationalities for starters	Samoa : 47% (7/15) New Zealand : 27% (4/15) Australia : 20% (3/15) United-States : 7% (1/15)
Japan : 61% (14/23) Australia : 9% (2/23) Tonga : 9% (2/23) Fiji : 9% (2/23) South Korea : 4% (1/23) South Africa : 4% (1/23) New Zealand : 4% (1/23)	Differents nationalities for all the team	Samoa : 57% (13/23) New Zealand : 26% (6/23) Australia : 13% (3/23) United-States : 4% (1/23)

(1) Calculations based on data in the database, which may be incomplete.

Timeline

Score : 0 - 0, 5 - 0, 7 - 0, 10 - 0, 10 - 3, 10 - 8, 10 - 10, 13 - 10, 16 - 10, 16 - 15, 16 - 17, 19 - 17, 22 - 17, 22 - 22, 22 - 24
Gap : 0, +5, +7, +7, +10, +7, +7, +2, 0, +3, +6, +1, -1, +2, +5, 0, -2