Australia v Fiji: Rugby World Cup 2023 – live

How do you best get over heartbreak? Spend long hours listening to your Spotify “Downer” playlist, take four weeks on a hedonistic pursuit of something to fill the yawning chasm inside you, quickly find another partner even though you know it’s not fair to them or you?

Fiji will not be taking any of these options, instead choosing to focus on the (hopefully) less emotionally damaging task of hammering Australia. The victory vs Wales may have agonisingly slipped through Semi Radrada’s butterfingers, but there was much in the action of that brilliant match to suggest a Fiji win today – the first against the Wallabies in the Rugby World Cup – is well within their, ahem, grasp.

Australia arrive with a comfortable win over a disappointing Georgia in the pocket, but have disruptions aplenty to contend with in the build up, particularly in the front row and the hokey-cokey selection of captain Will Skelton. Even without all this, the kindest way to sum up their whole year thus far is that they have struggled for consistency in both results and performance.

The picture in Pool C could not be better poised, with this game now taking on significance particularly for Simon Raiwalui’s Fiji, who cannot afford to lose both fixtures against their main rivals for progression to the quarters; while Eddie Jones and his Wallabies will want to have the points from this win banked prior to facing Wales next Sunday. It’s also a real possibility that Wales-Australia-Fiji each take a win from this mini round-robin, at which point bonus points will be precious commodities. Expect a few today – a low-scoring affair this will not be.

Settle in, this should be a belter.