Rugby World Cup 2019 – Georgia vs Uruguay LIVE: Score, stream and latest updates from Pool D fixture
Follow all the live action from Kumagaya where the South Americans are hoping to trigger another World Cup upset after beating Fiji earlier this week
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Your support makes all the difference.Follow live updates from the Rugby World Cup as Uruguay and Georgia go head to head this morning in Kumagaya.
Fiji were stunned in Pool D on Wednesday when the South Americans achieved the greatest result in their rugby history with a 30-27 victory in Kamaishi.
Georgia, meanwhile, lost their opening game to Wales 43-14 on Monday, but they produced a dogged second-half performance in which they shared 28 points with Warren Gatland's side. Follow the live action below:
How can I live stream the match?
The game will be available to stream via the ITV Hub on your smartphone, desktop or tablet.
ITV will also be broadcasting the match on terrestrial TV.
What time is it?
Georgia vs Uruguay kicks off on Sunday 29 September at 2.15pm Japan Standard Time, which is 6.15am BST.
Hello all and welcome to The Independent's live coverage of this morning's Rugby World Cup clash between Georgia and Uruguay.
We'll be bringing you all the live action, reaction and analysis - so make sure to stay tuned!
Hello hello.
It couldn't happen again, could it?
Four days on from their stunning victory over Fiji, Uruguay are back in action against one of the best of the rest, with Georgia hoping to get their tournament properly underway after stumbling, rather, to a hefty defeat to Wales.
Kumagaya is our venue for today's proceedings.
We've ostensibly more important business to come in Pool D, with Australia and Wales' potential decider kicking off later, but this is an intriguing little number. Fiji showed what can happen if you take Los Teros lightly.
Former England and British and Irish Lions forwards coach Graham Rowntree is involved with the Georgians at the World Cup (along with Joe Worsley, among others) and the feisty former loosehead wasn't letting his side take things at all easy at training yesterday.
TEAM NEWS - Uruguay
But let's begin with the team news for Los Teros, with Uruguay making two changes to the team that beat Fiji.
Juan Pedro Rombys comes in on the tighthead after an enterprising cameo from the bench, while Alejandro Nieto will add size at number eight.
TEAM NEWS - Georgia
Jaba Bregvadze takes the reins for Georgia, leading the side from hooker. Mamuka Gorgodze and Beka Gorgadze are out of the team; Otari Giorgadze is in, at number eight.
Perhaps their most exciting change is at nine - Gela Aprasidze is one of the sharpest running scrum-halves in the game, and any frailty around the fringes will be exploited by the Montpellier man. Aprasidze, 21, will combine with Tedo Abzhandadze, 20, as Georgia's key playmaking duo.
It's hard to pinpoint just one standout Uruguay player from that remarkable Fiji victory, but Felipe Berchesi was simply superb at ten. Pulling the strings and kicking the goals, he and inside centre Andres Vilaseca also defused the considerable hard running threat of Fiji's Jale Vatubua.
Berchesi matchup with Abzhandadze could be fascinating today. Georgia's young fly-half is a little vulnerable defensively, and I'd expect to see Uruguay sending some heftier runners down his channel, with Berchesi presumably guiding them there.
Georgia will look to build around their scrum today. Guram Gogichashvili is the great hope on the loosehead, already smashing France-based props with Racing 92, while Levan Chilachava comes into the side at tighthead with one of the finest scrummaging reputations around. Java Bregvadze is now based in Japan - he moved to the Sunwolves last year to continue a globetrotting career that has visited England, France and Russia in the past. Gnarly bloke, Bregvadze.
Graham Rowntree is barking instructions in the warm up. Such strength in the Georgian propping core, and if they can put Uruguay on the back foot things should open up for their precocious halves.
Out into glorious sunshine the players stride. The Kumagaya Rugby Stadium is a lovely arena for rugby, home of the excellent Panasonic Wild Knights of the Japanese Top League. It looks a hot one.
Indeed, we've a sell-out in Kumagaya - are the capacity crowd going to enjoy another shock?
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