The first of Sunday's matches in the Rugby World Cup comes from Pool D and Toulouse is the venue for the clash between Japan and Chile.
Japan v Chile, Sunday 10th September, Toulouse, KO 13:00 (South African time)
Referee: Nic Berry (RA)
Assistant Referees: Karl Dickson (RFU), Andrea Piardi (FIR)
TMO: Tom Foley (RFU)
Weather Forecast - Toulouse
Japan:
Japan played 2 warm ups in August and both ended in defeat. They lost 35-12 at home to Fiji early in the month and went down 42-21 away to Italy in their final prep.
Japan's best return in RWC finals came in 2019 as hosts. They came through the pool stage with a 100% record most notably beating Ireland and Scotland before losing a quarter final clash with the Springboks 26-3.
Japan are trading at around 350/1 to win the 2023 tournament with Playabets. As well as Chile they have England, Argentina and Samoa for company in Pool D and they are 15/2 to qualify for the quarter finals. 100% match on your first deposit up to R2000 for new customers
Chile:
Having fought a successful qualifying campaign Chile are making their RWC finals debut. Their results in preparation matches include a 26-25 defeat away to Uruguay and a 28-26 home defeat to Namibia and they also lost twice to an Argentinian XV.
Chile are ranked 22 in the world and are among the rank outsiders in this years tournament. In the RWC outright betting they are trading at around 90/1 with Playabets to reach the quarter finals by qualifying from this pool. 100% match on your first deposit up to R2000 for new customers
Team News
Japan: 15 Semisi Masirewa, 14 Kotaro Matsushima, 13 Dylan Riley, 12 Ryoto Nakamura, 11 Jone Naikabula, 10 Rikiya Matsuda, 9 Yutaka Nagare, 8 Kazuki Himeno (c), 7 Kanji Shimokawa, 6 Michael Leitch, 5 Amato Fakatava, 4 Jack Cornelsen, 3 Jiwon Gu, 2 Atsushi Sakate, 1 Keita Inagaki
Replacements: 16 Shota Horie, 17 Craig Millar, 18 Asaeli Ai Valu, 19 Warner Dearns, 20 Shota Fukui, 21 Naoto Saito, 22 Tomoki Osada, 23 Lomano Lemeki
Chile: 15 Inaki Ayarza, 14 Santiago Videla, 13 Domingo Saavedra, 12 Matias Garafulic, 11 Franco Velarde, 10 Rodrigo Fernandez, 9 Marcelo Torrealba, 8 Alfonso Escobar, 7 Raimundo Martínez, 6 Martín Sigren (c), 5 Javier Eissmann, 4 Clemente Saavedra, 3 Matias Dittus, 2 Diego Escobar, 1 Javier Carrasco
Replacements: 16 Augusto Bohme, 17 Salvador Lues, 18 Inaki Gurruchaga, 19 Pablo Huete, 20 Santiago Pedrero, 21 Ignacio Silva, 22 Lukas Carvallo, 23 José Ignacio Larenas
The Betting
Betting at 08h20 09 September
Japan -24.5 points at 9/10
Chile +25.5 points at 9/10
Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.
Betting Angle
This handicap has been fairly stable although I sense quite a bit of support for Chile from fellow punters. Hanrick was on Fridays live betting show THE HANDICAP and he reckons Chile could be something of a surprise package.
Japan rugby seems to have regressed in recent months and while I expect them to win I am going to follow Hanrick on this one and will back Chile to keep things respectable.
I will post any points or try’s bets in the forum should I get a fancy closer to kick off.
BET: 4 units Chile +25.5 at 1/1 at Betxchange – note this is under their Boosted Odds special which allows a single bet of up to 5k at 1/1 on either the handicap or points line – you can view their T&Cs here
Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.
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