- Pool C: Wales 40-6 Australia
- Wales score three tries and Anscombe scores 23 points
Warren Gatland has enjoyed some big wins with Wales over the years but few more satisfying than this. His team are bound for the quarter-finals and behind him, choking in their dust, is a stricken Australian team who are now all but doomed to a premature tournament exit. Eddie Jones, on the other hand, is seeing all his worst nightmares come true.
When Jones was rehired in January at vast expense, having lost his job with England, it was not supposed to end like this. If defeat to Fiji was bad, this was far worse as his side barely fired a shot. If the 63-year-old was meant to breathe fresh life into the Wallaby squad, it has had the exact opposite effect. Compared with the glory days of Australian rugby it was almost embarrassing at times, with boos ringing around the stadium whenever Jones appeared on the big screen. Wales, though, still had to seal the deal and duly did so through tries from Gareth Davies, Nick Tompkins and Jac Morgan and the boot of Gareth Anscombe, on as an early replacement for the injured Dan Biggar.
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