The competition was opened by France and Argentina at the Stade de France stadium in St Denis, outside of Paris. The finals of the championship were played in the same stadium. The champions of the group with all four victories were New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. Other places in their group with three victories and one defeat took England, Fiji, Scotland and France. Fiji, along with Wales, went to the quarter-finals of the championship. Third places in the teams and direct placement for the next World Cup were provided by Tonga, Wales, Italy and Ireland. There were surprises in group A. South Africa and England expected to go into the quarter-finals, and the third place and direct placement for the next world championship came from Tonga, who defeated the US and Samoa. In the group phase, South Africa beat England with 36: 0. For the first time and the history of world championships, the English have not scored a single point. For the first time in the history of the competition, the current world champion did not achieve a single point in the world championship.
From Group B, the biggest disappointment was made by Wales, who did not win the quarter-finals. In the fight for the second place in Group B Fiji was better than Wales with 38:34, so the Fijians won the place among the top eight teams of the world, their biggest success in the Mundials. The first in Group B was Australia, which had all four victories and a maximum of 20 points. In every victory she has achieved four and more essays. The Australian team was then the most experienced team in history. All Blacks won all 20 points in group C, and scored 309 points in total, representing a record for the number of points scored in the group stage of the competition. In the battle for the second place in the group and placement in the quarterfinals, Scotland defeated Italy at 18:16. Group D was declared a group of deaths because they played Franz, Ireland, and Argentina, which was also a hit for this championship. Argentina defeated France at 17:12 in the match that opened the World Cup, and in the same group won Ireland at 30:15. Argentina won the first place in the group with all the victories next to the hosts of France and Ireland. For the third time in history, Argentina played at the opening of world championships. Argentina is just another national team in the history that hosted the host of Rugby Mundial at the opening of the competition.
Then South Africa made a victory, leaving the English without a point. The English thought it was time to collect debts. No match was scored in the match for the world champion, so points came exclusively from penalty shootouts, and after the half-time, Springboks led with 9: 3. In the first half, Jonathan Wilkinson failed to score a drop-goal. In the second half, the English were able to reduce to 9: 6, but that was their last hitch. What remains to be a topic for the eternal debate is whether Cueto scored a try or not in 42 minutes when the English lost 9-3 since hawk eye technology was not yet in use, the judges decided not to, and he believes it is. By the end of the match, Montgomery will score two more penalties for the final 15: 6 and for the second title of the champion of the planet for Springboys. In the match for the bronze medal, Argentines beat France with 34:10. The best shooter was the aforementioned flyhalf championship team Montogomery, and the most essay was scored by his countryman Bryan Habana
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