{"id":1208,"date":"2009-11-23T06:03:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T12:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2009-11-23T06:05:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T12:05:27","slug":"scotland-beat-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/scotland-beat-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Beat Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1209\" title=\"Scotland beat Austraia rugby\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Scotland-beat-Austraia-rugby.jpg\" alt=\"Scotland beat Austraia rugby\" width=\"377\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Scotland-beat-Austraia-rugby.jpg 377w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Scotland-beat-Austraia-rugby-280x145.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><strong>Scotland beat Australia for the first time in 28 years after Wallabies flyhalf Matt Giteau missed an injury-time conversion in Edinburgh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australia wasted two try-scoring chances before Ryan Cross went over in injury time on Saturday. That left Giteau with the chance to win the game, but the flyhalf, who kicked a first-half penalty, sent his conversion attempt wide and Scotland won, 9-8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe error rate was something that really hurt us,\u201d the Australia captain, Rocky Elsom, said. \u201cIf I was going to give a crucial kick to anyone, it would be Matt. He\u2019s our kicker and he\u2019s the best we\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phil Godman of Scotland kicked two penalties and Chris Paterson landed a drop goal in a game where the Scottish defense was outstanding and the Australians were punished for mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said to the team that is the most courageous performance I\u2019ve ever been involved in,\u201d said the Scotland coach, Andy Robinson, who used to be in charge of England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount of ball that we gave Australia to play with throughout the game and the courage that the players had to get up and keep knocking them over\u201d was exceptional, he said. We needed a bit of luck. I thought the guys worked hard to establish that luck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There seemed no sign of the surprise result when a lineout infringement handed Australia a lead in the fifth minute and Giteau kicked the penalty, but Australia did not score again until Cross\u2019s try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland beat Australia for the first time in 28 years after Wallabies flyhalf Matt Giteau missed an injury-time conversion in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[77194,1940,1939,77178,1878,1941,1938,1937],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rugby","tag-australia","tag-edinburgh","tag-matt-giteau","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-union","tag-ryan-cross","tag-scotland","tag-scotland-beat-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}