Japan’s late bonus against Samoa from Kotaro Matsushima hurts Scotland www.theguardian.com

Ireland are second in the pool with 11 points while the Scots, with a game in hand against Russia, have five.
Samoa’s discipline problems in this tournament continued when the flanker TJ Ioane was sent to the sin-bin for a no-arms tackle, their fifth yellow card, and while he was off the field Japan scored their opening try.
The teams traded penalties at the start of the second period before Japan scored a second try on 56 minutes to open up some daylight on the scoreboard.
They got a massive shove going in the maul from an attacking lineout and Himeno collapsed over the line.
But Samoa showed admirable fighting spirit and, after dominating possession and winning a succession of penalties inside the Japan 22, Taefu crossed to bring them back into the contest.