{"id":48601,"date":"2013-06-11T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=48601"},"modified":"2013-06-11T09:15:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:15:44","slug":"top-two-go-head-to-head-at-irb-tbilisi-cup-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/top-two-go-head-to-head-at-irb-tbilisi-cup-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Two Go Head to Head at IRB Tbilisi Cup Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irb.com\/live\/video.html\">** WATCH LIVE TBILISI CUP ACTION HERE FROM 3:30PM GEORGIA TIME \/ 12:30PM GMT **<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The top two teams in the IRB Tbilisi Cup standings will go head to head today as Emerging Ireland take on South Africa President\u2019s XV at the Avchala Stadium (17:00 local time). <\/p>\n<p>Both sides come into the contest off the back of opening round victories. South Africa President\u2019s XV scored six tries to see off a spirited Uruguayan outfit and top the standings with a try bonus point, while Emerging Ireland coming from behind to beat the Georgians in a hard fought contest. <\/p>\n<p>Victory for either side will see them in pole position to win the inaugural IRB Tbilisi Cup with one round remaining. <\/p>\n<p>Georgia and Uruguay will meet in the second match on Tuesday (19:00 local time) with both sides looking to improved performances to advance their ambitions of securing a runner-up place. <\/p>\n<p>The Georgians impressively led 15-14 against Emerging Ireland with seven minutes left but were denied victory thanks to two late Irish penalties, but still manged to record a vital losing bonus point and victory this afternoon will place them back in contention. <\/p>\n<p>The South Americans started very well against the South Africans, but could not sustain that intensity for the full 80 minutes, though victory will provide a big boost as Uruguay look ahead to Rugby World Cup 2015 qualifying. <\/p>\n<p>Read the preview and team line-ups <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irb.com\/newsmedia\/regional\/newsid=2067389.html#all+play+tbilisi+cup\">here<\/a>>> <\/p>\n<p>With the IRB Tbilisi Cup, IRB Nations Cup, IRB Pacific Nations Cup and a programme of Tier 1 test matches for Japan, USA, Canada and Samoa in the June window, there is an unprecedented volume of international matches for the world\u2019s up-and-coming teams, underscoring the IRB\u2019s commitment to close the competition gap between Tier One and Two Unions. <\/p>\n<p>You can follow all the action at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irb.com\">www.irb.com<\/a> and via @IRBmedia on twitter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** WATCH LIVE TBILISI CUP ACTION HERE FROM 3:30PM GEORGIA TIME \/ 12:30PM GMT ** The top two teams in the IRB Tbilisi Cup standings will go head to head today as Emerging Ireland take on South Africa President\u2019s XV at the Avchala Stadium (17:00 local time). Both sides come into the contest off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5519,12377],"class_list":["post-48601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-cup","tag-tibilisi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48603,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48601\/revisions\/48603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}