Samoa vs. Canada: Live Stream Match Schedule, Prediction, Squads
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| Samoa vs. Canada: Live Stream Match Schedule, Prediction, Squads |
Samoa is going to face Canada in the third round of the IRB Pacific Nations cup 2015 on this Wednesday, July 27. This will be the third match for both teams. The match will take place in the BMO Field of Toronto. Angus Gardner from Australia will be the referee for this match. The match will start at 16:30 (GMT). In this year’s IRB Pacific Nations cup six teams are taking part and for the 4th time this happened so. The tournament is taking part every year since 2006. In this year’s competition Samoa has won one match and drawn one. Right now they are second in the point table. In their first match they beat USA by five points (21-16). They draw against the Fiji in the second game which has been the most contested match of this year. Canada is placed at the bottom of the point table at sixth position. They have lost both the matches they played so far. Japan beat them by a huge margin of 16 points (20-6) in the first match and Tonga also beat them by 10 points in the second game. So, Samoa is feeling very confident to get the win and place them on the top the points table which may be tuff as Fiji is predicted to win their next match too. Canada is hoping for some luck so that the can get their first point of the tournament. But earlier head to head statistics do not support them. So far both the teams have faced each other four times in the field and in all the occasions Canada has lost the match. So, the prediction is that Samoa is going to win the match by a big margin.
Canada is ranked as the 18th team in the IRB ranking right now and Samoa I sway above them on the ninth position. In the international arena Canada has played 224 matches since 1932 and won 94 of them. About one fourth of them they have played against their neighbor USA and they also won most matches (total 38 wins) against them. Samoa has more successful international carrier than Canada. They even played in the quarterfinals of the Rugby World Cup two times in 1991 and 1995. Among 203 international matches they played so far they have won almost half of them. Team line of for the match is given below.
Teams:
Canada Squad: 1. Brett, 2. John Moonlight, 3. Andrew Tiedemann, 4. Beukeboom, 5. Ciaran Hearn, 6. Hubert Buydens, 7. Gordon McRorie, 8. Matt Evans, 9. Richard Thorpe, 10. Aaron Carpenter, 11. Jon Phelan, 12. Connor Braid, 13. Tyler Ardron (c), 14. D. T. H. van der Merwe, 15. Liam Underwood.
Samoa Squad: 1. Fa’atiga Lemalu, 2. Jack Lam, 3. Johnny Leota, 4. Motu Matu’u, 5. Sanele Vavae Tuilagi, 6. Michael Stanley, 7. Paul Perez, 8. Fa’atoina Autagavaia, 9. TJ Ioane, 10. Alesana Tuilagi (c), 11.Sakaria Taulafo, 12.Anthony Perenise, 13. Pele Cowley, 14. Filo Paulo, 15.Alofa Alofa.
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