Play-off Stage
The Quarter-final play-offs were three one-off knock-out matches between the runners up of each pool and the third best placed side from all five pools to decide the remaining three places in the Quarter-finals. The matches were played in mid-week between the completion of the pool stage and the start of the Quarter-finals. The matches produced fairly easy wins for England, beating Fiji 45–24, and also for Scotland, beating Samoa 35–20. However the final match produced the shock of the round where Argentina upset Ireland 28–24 in Lens.
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