USA vs. Tonga: Live Stream Match Schedule, Preview, Schedule
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| USA vs. Tonga: Live Stream Match Schedule, Preview, Schedule |
USA and Tonga will meet each other at July 29th in 2015. The game will kick off at 11:30 GMT and British standard time is 05:30. The venue that will host the game is BMO field, which is located in Toronto. It is one of the biggest match of IRB Pacific Nations cup. The match referee will be Alexandre Ruiz from France.
IRB Pacific Nations cup will step in their 10th edition in this year. In IRB Pacific Nations cup (2015) this will be the first head to head match for USA and Tonga. Also in the tournament, they will meet with each other for the third time. For USA this will be their third match in this tournament. So far USA only played in IRB since 2013. On the other hand Tonga has played in every edition (10 edition) of this tournament. But USA already got more success than Tonga. So far, Tonga only managed to get the runner’s up position. But USA already got the second position in last IRB Pacific Nations cup (2014). The ranking difference between USA and Tonga is only three. USA hold the number 16th position and Tonga is in number 13th position according to the IRB world ranking.
USA debuted against Australia for their first match in 1912. Since then they have already played 212 international matches. They won 68 times and lost in 141 matches. They played most of their matches against Canada (51). Also their most win is against Canada (13) as well as their most losses (58). Though the margin between win and loss is quite large for USA, they are pretty confident in this year to do better. This is their 7th rugby world cup and they are making progress as a team. Their opponent Tonga is standing ahead in this equation. In world cup attendance equation they are equal with USA (6 world cup). Tonga debuted in 1987, and so far they have played 240 international matches. Among them they won in 93 matches and lost in 147 matches. They played most games (87 matches) against Fiji. Among those matches they won 26 times.
So far Tonga and USA played head to head for 7 times. Tonga lost in only 1 match and won the other 6 matches. Though USA only managed 1 win, their recent form tells that they will give a good fight against Tonga and it will be tense match.
Squads:
Tonga squad: 1. Halani Aulika, 2. Sonatane Takulua, 3. Tevita Mailau, 4. Kurt Morath, 5. Fetu’u Vainikolo, 6. Vunga Lilo, 7. Viliami Ma’afu, 8. Joe Tuineau, 9. Hale T-Pole, 10. Viliami Tahitu’a, 11. Sione Piukala, 12. Steve Mafi, 13. Elvis Taione, 14. Telusa Veainu, 15. Nili Latu (c).
Unites States Squad: 1. Takudzwa Ngwenya, 2. Titi Lamositele, 3. Thretton Palamo, 4. Danny Barrett, 5. Zach Fenoglio, 6. Hayden Smith, 7. Seamus Kelly, 8. Blaine Scully, 9. Cam Dolan, 10. Scott LaValla, 11. Mike Petri, 12. AJ MacGinty, 13. Andrew Durutalo, 14. Eric Fry, 15. Chris Wyles (c).
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