Test Match No. 207: Ireland National Rugby Union Team's second visit to Japan, game 2

日本語 Photo Journal
19 June 2005 at Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium
●Japan 18-47 Ireland○
Managed to score two tries but lost to Ireland again
 
Data:
19/06/2005, Lipobitan D Challenge 2005, 2nd Test
Japan 18 Ireland 47
Prince Chichibu Memorial Ground, Tokyo
Half-time: 10-14
Referee: Nigel Whitehouse (Wales)
Touch Judges: 1st Nigel Owens (Wales), 2nd Huw Watkins (Wales), 3rd Taizo Hirabayashi (Japan)
Crowd: 14,913
 
JAPAN: 15 Goshi Tachikawa, 14 Daisuke Ohata, 13 Reuben Parkinson, 12 Yukio Motoki (21 Teppei Tomioka 70), 11 Hirotoki Onozawa (22 Ayumu Goromaru temp-bs 71-), 10 Keiji Hirose, 9 Wataru Murata (20 Shota Goto 62), 8 Takuro Miuchi (capt), 7 Ryota Asano (17 Kenji Kasai temp-bs 40(+2), 1st Half-47), 6 Hare Makiri (18 Tomoaki Nakai 70), 5 Takanori Kumagae, 4 Hajime Kiso (19 Takeomi Ito 59), 3 Ryo Yamamura, 2 Masakazu Nakabayashi (16 Ken Tsukagoshi 51), 1 Shigeyasu Takagi (17 Kenji Kasai 62).
Tries: Ohata (2); Conversion: Hirose; Penalty Goals: Hirose (2).
Yellow Card: Takagi (40(+2), 1st Half sin-bin, repeated infringements at ruck offence).
 
IRELAND: 15 Girvan Dempsey, 14 Tommy Bowe, 13 Gavin Duffy, 12 David Quinlan, 11 Anthony Horgan (22 Kieran Lewis 70), 10 David Humphreys (capt) (21 Jeremy Staunton 77), 9 Peter Stringer (20 Kieran Campbell 70), 8 Eric Miller (19 Alan Quinlan temp-bs 4-11 and 22), 7 David Wallace, 6 Denis Leamy (16 Bernaard Jackman temp-bs 62-70), 5 Matt McCullough (16 Bernaard Jackman 77), 4 Leo Cullen (18 Trevor Hogan 50), 3 Simon Best, 2 Frankie Sheahan, 1 Marcus Horan (17 Reggie Corrigan 65).
Tries: Sheahan (2), Duffy (2), Wallace, Humphreys, Dempsey; Conversions: Humphreys (6).
 
Scoring sequence (Japan's score shown first): 3min-try Ireland, Wallace; conv. Humphreys-0-7, 7min-try Ireland, Sheahan; conv. Humphreys-0-14, 33min-pen Japan, Hirose-3-14, 34min-try Japan, Ohata; conv. Hirose-10-14, Half-time, 42min-try Ireland, Humphreys; conv. Humphreys-10-21, 43min-try Ireland, Duffy; conv. Humphreys (missed)-10-26, 46min-pen Japan, Hirose-13-26, 49min-try Ireland, Dempsey; conv. Humphreys-13-33, 57min-try Ireland, Duffy; conv. Humphreys-13-40, 60min-try Japan, Ohata; conv. Hirose (missed)-18-40, 66min-try Ireland, Sheahan; conv. Humphreys-18-47.
 


Japan's ace player Ohata scored two tries in this game, but Ireland, on the other hand, scored seven tries and six goals, and displayed its class to Japan by scoring seven tries and six goals, winning by 30 points.
Japan ended the first half at 10-14, almost even with Ireland. However, as early as the 2nd and 3rd minute of the second half, Japan conceded consecutive tries to Ireland's fierce attack launched when Japan's prop Takagi was sin-binned. This killed Japan's morale for fighting back. The only good thing was that Ohata scored his second try for the day from a ruck to the right corner in the 20th minute of the second half, in response to the fans. It was disappointing that “the point differential was 30 as usual” in both games.