{"id":45523,"date":"2018-06-16T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/16\/johnny-sexton-ensures-ireland-gain-revenge-on-australia-to-level-series\/"},"modified":"2018-06-16T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T12:45:23","slug":"johnny-sexton-ensures-ireland-gain-revenge-on-australia-to-level-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=45523","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Sexton ensures Ireland gain revenge on Australia to level series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Australia 21-26 Ireland\u2022 Sexton kicks 16 points as Ireland taste victory in MelbourneThe green machine is back up and running. Ireland head to Sydney with the series all square after a first away win over Australia for 39 years, founded on their ferocious physicality and led by the indomitable Peter O\u2019Mahony. They were clinging on at the end but Ireland were worthy victors, winning the collisions, bossing the breakdown and getting over the line thanks to Jonathan Sexton\u2019s goalkicking.David Pocock was far from a spectator but he was outshone by his opposite number O\u2019Mahony and as a result, the Wallabies could not click into gear. Australia outscored Ireland three tries to two but the penalty count \u2013 15-12 in the visitors\u2019 favour \u2013 was a more telling statistic. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/jun\/16\/australia-ireland-international-rugby-match-report\" target=\"_blank\">Johnny Sexton ensures Ireland gain revenge on Australia to level series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Australia 21-26 Ireland\u2022 Sexton kicks 16 points as Ireland taste victory in MelbourneThe green machine is back up and running. Ireland head to Sydney with the series all square after a first away win over Australia for 39 years, founded on their ferocious physicality and led by the indomitable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}