Full Time
80:00
7:30pm Sat November 4, 2017
Pool A - Sydney Football Stadium (1988-2018), Moore Park / Gadigal - Crowd: 10237
79

SUCCESSFUL FIELD GOAL ENGLAND: Field goal attempt by Gareth Widdop successful.

Widdop slots a field goal right on the siren

England 29-10

77

McGillvray almost scores but the pass to him was deemed forward.

England 28-10

75

UNSUCCESSFUL CONVERSION LEBANON: Conversion attempt by Mitchell Moses unsuccessful.

Moses unable to convert from touch

England 28-10

75

TRY LEBANON: Scored by Jason Wehbe. Kick to come.

Wehbe gets outside his defender and forces himself over out wide for a try.

England 28-10

73

SCRUM LEBANON - Maarbani almost taken into touch and flicks the ball back in, which is then knocked on by Gale.

England 28-6

72

Moses can't get his grubber through the Englis defence, but he does get the ball back for his side after his kick goes dead off an English player.

England 28-6

71

Farah's short kicking has been good all night and he's just got his side a repeat set here, forcing a drop out by England.

England 28-6

66

LEBANON PENALTY - Graham hit for coming in late. England getting sloppy discipline wise.

England 28-6

58

SCRUM LEBANON - England found to have thrown a forward pass.

England 28-6

56

SUCCESSFUL CONVERSION ENGLAND: Conversion attempt by Gareth Widdop successful.

Widdop slots the easy goal

England 28-6

55

TRY ENGLAND: Scored by Thomas Burgess. Kick to come.

Burgess makes a break, uses a step and runs away to score.

England 26-6

48

PENALTY LEBANON - England kick chase offside by plenty

England 22-6

46

Jamie Clark coming off for an HIA

England 22-6

42

Farah claims he was bitten. Incident is on report. No penalty. Play on.

England 22-6

41

A fiery start to the second half

England 22-6

39

Abou Sleiman fumbles in goal, but manages to ground the ball for a drop out before the English could get there to claim a try.

England 22-6

37

Moses makes a break and then throws a bad pass into touch

England 22-6

33

PENALTY ENGLAND - Lebanon pinged for another ruck infringement.

England 22-6

32

SUCCESSFUL CONVERSION ENGLAND: Conversion attempt by Gareth Widdop successful.

Widdop from out wide adds the extras.

England 22-6

31

TRY ENGLAND: Scored by Ben Currie. Kick to come.

Curries walks through a yawning gap and scores an easy try.

England 20-6

30

SCRUM ENGLAND - Lebanon ruled to have knocked on in the play the ball. England back on the attack.

England 16-6

28

UNSUCCESSFUL CONVERSION ENGLAND: Conversion attempt by Gareth Widdop unsuccessful.

Widdop unable to convert from touch.

England 16-6

27

TRY ENGLAND: Scored by Ryan Hall. Kick to come.

Hall scores in the corner after England shift the ball wide early.

England 16-6

27

PENALTY ENGLAND - Lebanon charged with holding down in the tackle.

England 12-6

25

SUCCESSFUL CONVERSION ENGLAND: Conversion attempt by Gareth Widdop successful.

Widdop slots the goal from in front.

England 12-6

24

TRY ENGLAND: Scored by Jermaine McGillvary. Kick to come.

Watkins with some good fortwork gets the ball to McGIllvary, who produces some footwork of his own to score.

England 10-6

22

Lebanon with a short kick, which is fumbled by Ratchford and Lebanon regains with another set of 6, 30 metres out from England's line

6 all

18

SUCCESSFUL CONVERSION LEBANON: Conversion attempt by Mitchell Moses successful.

Moses converts

6 all

18

TRY LEBANON: Scored by Nick Kassis. Kick to come.

Farah's grubber is fumbled by Widdop and pounced on by Kassis.

England 6-4

16

PENALTY LEBANON - England gives away a dumb penalty, knocking the ball out in a tackle.

England 6-0

15

SCRUM LEBANON - England on the attack but their last pass goes forward.

England 6-0

13

PENALTY LEBANON - England offside in defence gets Lebanon off their own line.

England 6-0

10

SUCCESSFUL CONVERSION ENGLAND: Conversion attempt by Gareth Widdop successful.

Widdop from the sideline converts

England 6-0

8

TRY ENGLAND: Scored by Kallum Watkins. Kick to come.

England win the numbers game out wide, catching Lebanon short out wide and Watkins scores

England 4-0

7

England with a good grubber into the Lebanon in-goal. Farah regathers but can't get back into the field of play.

0 all

6

SCRUM ENGLAND - Lebanon ruled to hack knocked on while regathering the ball.

0 all

5

Hill looks to have picked up a leg injury

0 all

4

SCRUM ENGLAND - Some poor handling by both sides, Lebanon ruled to have knocked on first.

0 all

2

Neither side giving an inch yet. England has the first attacking set but were unable to score.

0 all

Referees & scorers:

Referee: Ben Thaler

Touch Judges: Ziggy Przeklasa-Adamski, Liam Moore

Video Referee: Phil Bentham

ENGLAND (29)
Tries: Kallum Watkins, Jermaine McGillvary, Ryan Hall, Ben Currie, Thomas Burgess
Field Goals: Gareth Widdop (1/1)
Conversions: Gareth Widdop (4/5)
Penalty Goals:

LEBANON (10)
Tries: Nick Kassis, Jason Wehbe
Field Goals:
Conversions: Mitchell Moses (1/2)
Penalty Goals: