{"id":559351,"date":"2025-11-09T12:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/559351\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T12:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:44:30","slug":"georgia-prove-too-strong-for-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/559351\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia prove too strong for USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International round-up <\/p>\n<p>GEORGIA defeated the USA 43-30 in an entertaining contest in Batumi.<br \/>USA bounced back from their 85-0 humbling by Scotland last weekend with an encouraging performance against a side which has dominated Rugby Europe in recent years.<br \/>The hosts led 26-24 at half time after a thrilling, try-filled first period. Dom Besag scored twice for the Eagles, with Toby Fricker also crossing, while Giorgi Kveseladze and captain Beka Gorgadze replied for Georgia. After a Jack Carty drop goal put the USA ahead, late tries from Luka Japaridze and Gela Aprasidze, following a da&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"International round-up GEORGIA defeated the USA 43-30 in an entertaining contest in Batumi.USA bounced back from their 85-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[943,12182,11653,4151,712,49,22710,978,659,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-559351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-final","10":"tag-premium","11":"tag-rugby","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-uruguay","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-usa","17":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115519806710478533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}