{"id":13560,"date":"2019-10-27T20:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=13560"},"modified":"2019-10-27T20:04:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:04:54","slug":"manu-tuilagi-and-maro-itoje-magnificent-ardie-savea-in-ahead-of-tom-curry-rugby-world-2019-team-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/10\/27\/manu-tuilagi-and-maro-itoje-magnificent-ardie-savea-in-ahead-of-tom-curry-rugby-world-2019-team-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Manu Tuilagi and Maro Itoje magnificent, Ardie Savea in ahead of Tom Curry: Rugby World 2019 team of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Rugby World Cup semi-finals served up some truly outstanding individual performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is probably no surprise to see England make up the bulk of the team after Eddie Jones&#8217; side prised away New Zealand&#8217;s eight-year grip on the trophy with a dominant 19-7 win in Yokohama on Saturday.<br><br>Just over 24 hours later, South Africa edged a much tighter match against Wales, with Handre Pollard&#8217;s penalty in the dying minutes proving the difference between the two sides as Rassie Erasmus&#8217; men won 19-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Springboks will now seek a third World Cup title, after their 1995 and 2007 triumphs, while England are looking for their second trophy after winning the 2003 tournament in the most dramatic circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final takes place on Saturday, with New Zealand and Wales contesting the third-place match on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Above is a photo gallery of the best players in each position from this past weekend&#8217;s semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To move on to the next image, click on the arrows, or if using a mobile device, simply swipe.<br><br>The National<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rugby World Cup semi-finals served up some truly outstanding individual performances. It is probably no surprise to see England make up the bulk of the team after Eddie Jones&#8217; side prised away New Zealand&#8217;s eight-year grip on the trophy with a dominant 19-7 win in Yokohama on Saturday.Just over 24 hours later, South Africa &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13562,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560\/revisions\/13562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}