Wales and Australia serve up a classic encounter this morning, with Warren Gatland's side surviving the Aussie comeback to secure a four point win.
After building a 15 point lead at halftime, Wales would see that deficit reduced to a single point in the closing stages. Ultimately that would not prove enough for Australia, with their failure to find touch from a late penalty proving to be the final nail in the coffin.
Michael Cheika's side now face the daunting task of a likely quarter final meeting with England, while Wales will probably play France.
Directly after the game, the Australia boss was rather tetchy in his post match interview. He even criticised the way the interviewer was holding the microphone:
"Maybe #Australia's not allowed to scrum any good"
- Michael Cheika in fine form post loss to #Wales #AUSvWAL #RWC2019 pic.twitter.com/bxHlMNWDWm— Spark Sport (@sparknzsport) September 29, 2019
What went wrong? We lost by a few points at the end of the day. Could you just lower that (microphone) down for me?
We lost by a couple of points. It was a tight contest, that's the way it goes sometimes.
Interviewer: The substitutes made a massive impact, does that bode well for the rest of the tournament?
I haven't thought about that. Just thinking about what happened tonight at the moment, then we will think about the rest of the tournament later.
Interviewer: What positives can you take from this game?
Well mate any positive we take we will keep to ourselves, I think. We looked good in the scrum tonight anf got penalised on them. I'm not sure, maybe Australia's not allowed to scrum any good.
So I'll just keep them to myself. I know you're expecting me to go, so I'll just keep my powder dry and see where we end up.
Cheika has been known for losing his temper at the best of times, and we imagine that his players got quite an earful after today's loss.
The will now face Uruguay on Saturday, before closing out the pool stage with a game against Georgia.
