{"id":293306,"date":"2023-10-02T21:24:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=293306"},"modified":"2023-10-02T21:24:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:24:54","slug":"australia-34-14-portugal-wallabies-keep-faint-world-cup-hopes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/rugby-union\/australia-34-14-portugal-wallabies-keep-faint-world-cup-hopes-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia 34-14 Portugal: Wallabies keep faint World Cup hopes alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Australia 34-14 Portugal: Wallabies recover from going behind to minnows to claim bonus point victory and keep their faint World Cup hopes alive<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Portugal led 7-3 after Pedro Bettencourt&#8217;s early converted try on Sunday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Australia scored three tries after Bettencourt was sin-binned for a high tackle<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fraser McReight touched down to secure the bonus point shortly after the break\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Latest Rugby World Cup 2023 news, including fixtures, live scores and results<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s slender hopes of making it to the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals survived another round of matches as they huffed and puffed to a 34-14 bonus-point victory against Portugal on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Jones&#8217;s Wallabies, who have now played all their games, will be eliminated in the group phase for the first time if Fiji take a point against Portugal next week in the Pool C finale.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal led 7-3 after Pedro Bettencourt&#8217;s early converted try but the centre was then sin-binned for a high tackle and Australia made the most of it by scoring three tries through Richard Arnold, David Porecki and Angus Bell.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser McReight touched down to secure the bonus point shortly after the break, while Marika Koroibete got a fifth with only a few minutes left.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Donaldson added points from the tee as twice world champions Australia, who conceded a late converted try by Rafael Simoes after picking up two yellow cards, climbed to second on 11 points, three behind already-qualified Wales and only one ahead of Fiji.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/01\/19\/76044307-0-image-a-11_1696183518677.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Portugal led 7-3 after Pedro Bettencourt&#8217;s early converted try in the Pool C encounter<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/01\/19\/76044329-0-image-a-12_1696183661928.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p> Australia scored three tries after Bettencourt was sin-binned for a high tackle in the first-half<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/01\/19\/76044217-0-image-a-1_1696183365350.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Fraser McReight touched down to secure the bonus point shortly after the break<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-12581747\/Australia-34-14-Portugal-Wallabies-recover-going-minnows-claim-bonus-point-victory-faint-World-Cup-hopes-alive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia 34-14 Portugal: Wallabies recover from going behind to minnows to claim bonus point victory and keep their faint World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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