PARIS (AP) — The Rugby World Cup quarterfinal lineups are decided after a month of pool-stage games drew to a close with top-ranked Ireland and host France powering into the last eight with convincing victories.
Ireland immediately swept away any thoughts of an upset in its last pool game against Six Nations rival Scotland by scoring its first try in the second minute on the way to a 36-0 lead at Stade de France.
The northern hemisphere’s top two teams will test their credentials in colossal quarterfinals against the southern hemisphere’s best. Those quarterfinals feature the top four teams in the world and two of them will be out come Sunday night. England is up against Fiji on Sunday in the quarters having survived a huge scare in its last pool game against Samoa by pulling off a late comeback to edge the Samoans 18-17. England was already through but needed to dig very deep not to head to the knockout stage off a loss.
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