{"id":49890,"date":"2026-10-16T06:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/rugby-league-world-cup-live-updates-commentary-scores-and-results-as-australia-take-on-new-zealand-in-tournament-opener\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T06:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:55:28","slug":"rugby-league-world-cup-live-updates-commentary-scores-and-results-as-australia-take-on-new-zealand-in-tournament-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/rugby-league-world-cup-live-updates-commentary-scores-and-results-as-australia-take-on-new-zealand-in-tournament-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby League World Cup LIVE! Updates, commentary, scores and results as Australia take on New Zealand in tournament opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What matches are on this weekend? This is what you can expect from the men&#8217;s tournament&#8230; Thursday October 15 Group A: Australia v New Zealand &#8211; Allianz Stadium, Sydney (10.05am) Friday October 16 Group B\/C: Samoa v France &#8211; CommBank Stadium, Sydney (7.45am) Saturday October 17 Group B\/C: Papua New Guinea v Lebanon &#8211; Santos<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/rugby-league\/live-blog\/13599160\/rugby-league-world-cup-live-updates-commentary-scores-and-results-as-australia-take-on-new-zealand-in-tournament-opener\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What matches are on this weekend? This is what you can expect from the men&#8217;s tournament&#8230; Thursday October 15 Group A: Australia v New Zealand &#8211; Allianz Stadium, Sydney (10.05am) Friday October 16 Group B\/C: Samoa v France &#8211; CommBank Stadium, Sydney (7.45am) Saturday October 17 Group B\/C: Papua New Guinea v Lebanon &#8211; SantosRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}