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Men's Rugby World Cup 2019 · Tokyo Stadium, Tokyo · 20 September 2019Head-to-head
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Japan won by 20 points.Half-time 12–7 · Tries 4–1

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44′61′64′5123947695787Attacks1433Ball won1451263635141107303210942331440%Own 2254%Own half57%Opp half72%Opp 22
Totals only: no positions in the feed
Tacklesmademissed
JPN13421
RUS14448
← Russia attack · Japan attack →Hover a try for detail · dots = tackles made · dashed = penalty goal · orange = missed · squares = rucks · triangles = line breaks and defenders beaten · rings = turnovers · bars at the foot = zone counts · thin lines = kicks from hand = attacking entries and ball won per band
  • Tackle positions are not in the feed for this match.
Tries and goal kicks as a table
MinTeamWhatScore
5′RussiaTry, Kirill Golosnitskiy, converted0–5
12′JapanTry, Kotaro Matsushima, conversion missed5–7
39′JapanTry, Kotaro Matsushima, converted10–7
47′JapanTry, Pieter Labuschagne, conversion missed20–7
69′JapanTry, Kotaro Matsushima, converted28–10
44′JapanPenalty goal scored
61′RussiaPenalty goal scored
64′JapanPenalty goal scored
Sample dataTerritory shares are estimated, and tries without a recorded position are placed in the in-goal. Other positions are as logged by the match feed and approximate.

Score progression

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08152330HT0′20′40′60′80′
5′Kirill Golosnitskiy12′Kotaro Matsushima39′Kotaro Matsushima47′Pieter Labuschagne69′Kotaro Matsushima
JPN

Team stats

RUS
50%Possession50%
48%Territory52%
141Carries112
653Metres gained289
16Clean breaks11
48Defenders beaten21
183Passes101
9Offloads4
134Tackles made144
21Tackles missed48
96/98Rucks won89/92
13/14Lineouts won8/9
4/4Scrums won13/13
1/1Mauls won1/1
7Turnovers won11
5Penalties conceded5
33Kicks from hand39
933Kick metres1,060
Goal kicking
JPN conversions 2/4, penalties 2/2 · RUS conversions 1/1, penalties 1/1. Pale segment = set piece lost.

Match statistics and event positions come from World Rugby’s public match feed, which is unofficial and not licensed for reuse; TheBreakdown reduces them to the figures shown.

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Keita InagakiProp
  2. 2Shota HorieHooker
  3. 3Asaeli Ai ValuProp
  4. 4Wimpie van der WaltSecond row
  5. 5James MooreSecond row
  6. 6Michael LeitchFlanker
  7. 7Pieter LabuschagneFlanker
  8. 8Kazuki HimenoNumber 8
  9. 9Yutaka NagareScrum-half
  10. 10Yu TamuraFly-half
  11. 11Lomano LemekiWing
  12. 12Ryoto NakamuraCentre
  13. 13Timothy LafaeleCentre
  14. 14Kotaro MatsushimaWing
  15. 15William TupouFull-back
  16. 16Atsushi SakateBench
  17. 17Isileli NakajimaBench
  18. 18Jiwon GuBench
  19. 19Luke ThompsonBench
  20. 20Hendrik TuiBench
  21. 21Fumiaki TanakaBench
  22. 22Rikiya MatsudaBench
  23. 23Ryohei YamanakaBench

Russia

  1. 1Valery MorozovProp
  2. 2Stanislav SelskiiHooker
  3. 3Kirill GotovtsevProp
  4. 4Andrey OstrikovSecond row
  5. 5Bogdan FedotkoSecond row
  6. 6Vitaly ZhivatovFlanker
  7. 7Tagir GadzhievFlanker
  8. 8Nikita VavilinNumber 8
  9. 9Vasily DorofeevScrum-half
  10. 10Yury KushnarevFly-half
  11. 11Kirill GolosnitskiyWing
  12. 12Dmitry GerasimovCentre
  13. 13Vladimir OstroushkoCentre
  14. 14German DavydovWing
  15. 15Vasily ArtemyevFull-back
  16. 16Evgeny MatveevBench
  17. 17Andrei PolivalovBench
  18. 18Azamat BitievBench
  19. 19Andrey GarbuzovBench
  20. 20Anton SychevBench
  21. 21Dmitry PerovBench
  22. 22Ramil GaisinBench
  23. 23Vladislav SozonovBench

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Context

All-time, Japan 6–1 Russia in 7 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Japan going in
Russia going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.