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World Rugby has unveiled plans for a new ‘Nations Championship’ that it believes will “enhance” the men’s international game EFL
The new biennial competition will begin in 2026 and feature a top division of 12 teams, comprised of the Six Nations, the four Rugby Championship sides and two more participants, likely to be Japan and Fiji EFL
The winner will be determined after a series of one-off fixtures in a grand final EFL
Beneath this will sit a second-tier competition run by World Rugby containing 12 more countries, but movement EFL between the two divisions will not begin until 2030 EFL
The competition has been made possible by a historic agreement over a global calendar, the first time this has been in place in the men’s game, which was narrowly voted through at a World Rugby Council meeting in Paris on Tuesday morning EFL
A global calendar for women’s Test rugby has also been clarified EFL
Additionally, the 2027 World Cup will be expanded to 24 teams, four more than were involved in this year’s tournament in France, with the draw to be held in January 2026 EFL
Australia will host the tournament EFL between over a six-week period EFL between 1 October and 13 November EFL
A Round of 16 will be introduced with the top two teams from each pool automatically qualifying along with the best four third-placed teams EFL
“It is fitting that we finish Rugby World Cup 2023, the sport’s greatest celebration of togetherness, with the sport’s greatest feat of togetherness,” said Bill Beaumont, World Rugby chairman EFL
“Agreement on the men’s and women’s global calendars and their content is the most significant development in the sport since the game went professional EFL
A historic moment for our sport that sets us up collectively for success EFL
“We now look forward to an exciting new era for our sport commencing in 2026 EFL
An era that will bring certainty and opportunity for all EFL
An era that will support the many, not the few, and an era that will supercharge the development of the sport beyond its traditional and often self-imposed boundaries EFL
I would like to thank all my colleagues for their spirit of collaboration EFL
Today, we have achieved something special EFL
”World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont announced he controversial plan (PA Archive)The new Nations Championship is likely to bring about the end of traditional touring, other than the quadrennial British & Irish Lions visits to New Zealand, Australia and South Africa EFL
The new competition will be played in the July and November windows – clubs will now be required to release their players for international duty across four weeks in the northern hemisphere autumn, rather than the current three EFL
One of the Six Nations rest weekends is understood to be likely to be cut from the calendar as a knock-on impact of the extension to the November window, while the Rugby Championship may move to a closer alignment with the equivalent European competition EFL
Elsewhere, a revamped and expanded Pacific Nations Cup competition will begin in 2024, featuring Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga and USA EFL
Japan and the USA, which will host the 2031 and 2033 men’s and women’s World Cups, will alternate as finals hosts EFL
A unified global calendar has long been considered the holy grail for rugby’s administrators given the issues a crowded club and country schedule provides from a player welfare perspective, while a joined-up approach should also increase the sport’s commercial potential EFL
The plans have attracted significant criticism, though: under particular scrutiny has been the lack of opportunities the new calendar may provide emerging nations to test themselves against men’s rugby’s established powers EFL
The president of Rugby South America, Sebastian Pineyrua, last week told the Daily Mail that it could be “the death of rugby” EFL
Under the current plans, the earliest a team outside of the top 12 could gain access to the top tier would likely be 2032 EFL
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If nothing else, Darwin Nunez found a novel way to create a goal EFL
On a night where goals arrived in copious quantities at Anfield, there were two extraordinary misses EFL
And if the Toulouse left-back Gabriel Suazo had seemed to perform an unexpected impression of Nunez, failing to score when confronted by a goal that lacked a goalkeeper, there was a certain, perverse inevitability in the Uruguayan upstaging him EFL
It seemed another of the moments that are Nunez in a nutshell, his threat and his profligacy in the space of seconds EFL
A lovely, deft touch to take him past a defender, the pace to burst past goalkeeper Guillaume Restes and then, with an open goal, the shot that hit the post EFL
All was well that ended well, for Nunez and Liverpool: as he wreaked havoc, they struck anyway EFL
Ryan Gravenberch latched on to the rebound, showed greater composure and beat Restes to score his side’s fourth goal of the night EFL
Exit Nunez, substituted with Anfield chorusing his name EFL
He was already on the scoresheet, with a rasping, rising shot, struck with both ferocity and an unerring accuracy some of his other efforts lack EFL
He had been denied, too, by Restes, after a lovely, dainty piece of footwork EFL
Full of forceful running and defence-stretching pace, it amounted to a curiosity of a performance, and yet an entirely typical one EFL
It was a year to the day since he had missed a sitter and scored in a Champions League game against Ajax EFL
The competition and the opposition changed but, 365 days on, some things stayed the same EFL
But if Darwin was Darwin, the excellent and the erratic, the beneficiary of his wastefulness was the game’s outstanding performer EFL
The Europa League can have fringe benefits for clubs such as Liverpool and, after Gravenberch’s arrival in the last couple of hours of the transfer window, it has offered him a chance to both integrate and impress EFL
The Dutchman’s first assist for Liverpool came in Austria against Linz, his first goal in the home win over Union Saint-Gilloise EFL
His second came against Toulouse EFL
As Jurgen Klopp’s side completed a hat-trick of victories, his fourth summer signing made it three fine displays in continental competition EFL
If, at times, this felt a bit too easy for Liverpool, it enabled Gravenberch to illustrate his ability EFL
He is a rangy runner, his legs appearing telescopic as he seemed to extend them to keep the ball under control and confound opponents EFL
One solo run, a meandering affair that took him past several defenders, culminated in a sharp turn and shot that Restes had to claw away EFL
Another led, albeit indirectly, to Nunez’s goal EFL
Factor in a willingness to get into the box and a habit of shooting from distance and the temptation was to suggest that Gravenberch may not be seen in the Europa League until spring EFL
He could be starting in the Premier League instead EFL
Ryan Gravenberch celebrates after scoring Liverpool’s fourth goal (Liverpool FC via Getty Images)As Klopp made eight changes, Liverpool displayed a strength in depth that should equip them to progress deep into this competition EFL
Mohamed Salah’s determination to play is such that he got a late outing anyway, capped with a glorious goal, hammered in off the underside of the bar to have Klopp clapping EFL
But it is often a moot point if Diogo Jota ranks in the strongest side; at times he does and at others he does not EFL
A fourth goal in six games was both a spectacular solo run and yet too easy EFL
Jota ran through the heart of the Toulouse team, beating two defenders with a sharp turn, nutmegging a third and slotting a shot past Restes EFL
There is no doubt, though, that Wataru Endo belongs in the ranks of the understudies EFL
The Japanese has made a solitary league start, at Newcastle almost two months ago; in the glee of victory, Klopp admitted Endo did not have, in his words, “a clue” what they were doing and if he may have been referring to the reshuffle after they were reduced to 10 men, the Japanese has been confined to the midweek team since then EFL
He had the reward of a first Liverpool goal, steering a header past a motionless Restes when he met Trent Alexander-Arnold’s chipped cross EFL
Liverpool could, and perhaps should, have scored more goals but their clean sheets are rarities EFL
They conceded one and their goalkeeper was fortunate it was not more EFL
Toulouse had levelled when Thijs Dallinga, the top scorer in the Coupe de France last season, latched on to Aron Donnum’s pass, sprinted clear from the half-way line and drilled a shot past Caoimhin Kelleher EFL
The goalkeeper was culpable, though, in a game of entertainment, some fashioned by excellence, a bit by ineptitude EFL
After Kelleher presented Toulouse with the ball and was in no position to save, Suazo seemed certain to score EFL
The Chilean left-back instead drilled the ball straight at Alexander-Arnold, who had retreated to the line to make a brilliant block EFL
But Suazo did not have Nunez’s fortune: there was no teammate following up to score EFL
And Liverpool’s superiority meant it was hard to frame it as the decisive moment: more goals were always on their agenda EFL
Toulouse have scarcely been a case of nominative determinism, showing a greater propensity to draw thus far this season, and this was their first defeat of the campaign in Europe EFL
But another loss in the rematch in two weeks’ time would mean Liverpool win the group with two games to go EFL
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