The first of Saturday's matches in the Rugby World Cup comes from Pool D and Bordeaux is the venue for the clash between Samoa and Chile.
Samoa v Chile, Saturday 16th September, Bordeaux, KO 15:00 (South African time)
Referee: Paul Williams (NZR)
Assistant Referees: Angus Gardner, James Doleman (NZR)
TMO: Brett Cronan (RA)
Weather Forecast - Bordeaux
Samoa:
Samoa were not in action last weekend and they enter the tournament trading at around 32/1 to top Pool D with Betway and 9/1 to reach the quarter finals. After this they will face Argentina, Japan and then England provide the opposition in their final pool match.
Warm up results comprise of a 34-9 home win over Tonga in early August before they headed to France where they beat the Barbarians 28-14 and most recently they went down 17-13 to Ireland.
In RWC 2019 in Japan Samoa won just 1 of their pool matches alongside 3 defeats to head home early. They beat pool outsiders Russia 34-9 first up but then lost to Scotland (34-0), Japan (38-19) and Ireland (47-5).
Chile:
Chile made their RWC finals debut against Japan in Toulouse on Sunday. The main handicap line settled in the mid 20's with Chile being the outsiders and although they were beaten 42-12, conceding 6 tries, they gave a decent enough account. Rodrigo Fernandez scored the opening try of the game for Chile but they picked up a yellow card and were 21-7 down by half time. Escobar scored the second Chile try to cut the deficit but they were then punished for picking up a second yellow.
Chile's results in preparation matches included 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 remain the rank outsiders in this years tournament and you can write your own ticket for them to get through the pool stage.
Team News
Samoa: 15 Duncan Paia’aua, 14 Danny Toala, 13 Ulupano Seuteni, 12 Tumua Manu, 11 Nigel Ah-Wong, 10 Christian Leali’ifano, 9 Jonathan Taumateine, 8 Steven Luatua, 7 Fritz Lee, 6 Taleni Seu, 5 Theo McFarland, 4 Chris Vui, 3 Michael Alaalatoa (c), 2 Seilala Lam, 1 James Lay
Replacements: 16 Sama Malolo, 17 Jordan Lay, 18 Paul Alo-Emile, 19 Sam Slade, 20 Sa Jordan Taufua, 21 Ereatara Enari, 22 Lima Sopoaga, 23 Ed Fidow
Chile: 15 Inaki Ayarza, 14 Santiago Videla, 13 Domingo Saavedra, 12 Matias Garafulic, 11 José Ignacio Larenas, 10 Rodrigo Fernandez, 9 Marcelo Torrealba, 8 Raimundo Martínez, 7 Clemente Saavedra, 6 Martín Sigren (c), 5 Santiago Pedrero, 4 Pablo Huete, 3 Matias Dittus, 2 Tomas Dussaillant, 1 Javier Carrasco
Replacements: 16 Diego Escobar, 17 Salvador Lues, 18 Esteban Inostroza, 19 Javier Eissmann, 20 Alfonso Escobar, 21 Ignacio Silva, 22 Benjamin Videla, 23 Pablo Casas
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The Betting
09h45 15 September
Samoa -33.5 points at 9/10
Chile +33.5 points at 9/10
Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.
Betting Angle
I am looking forward to seeing Samoa in action as I was impressed with them against Ireland. Chile looked good early before fading against Italy and I think that at some point the Samoans will pull clear. The handicap is high though and I find myself coming back to the Chile points line of 9.5.
They got 12 against Italy and I think they will find a few holes in this Samoa defence and I am backing them to score 10 points or more, surely an early penalty and a converted try is not too much to ask?
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