Addo-Carr bags five in Lebanon thrashing

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Australia scored 9 tries, 5 of which went to Josh Addo-Carr, successful a 48-4 hammering of Lebanon successful their World Cup quarterfinal astatine John Smith's Stadium.

The Kangaroos ne'er looked successful trouble, with Cameron Munster signaling 4 effort assists portion Harry Grant gave Lebanon plentifulness of headaches retired of dummy-half. But the antheral of the infinitesimal was the Bulldogs winger, who was controversially omitted from State of Origin for the Blues this year.

Addo-Carr ran for 113 tally metres and had a hat-trick wrong 19 minutes, and adjacent erstwhile skipper James Tedesco was rested astatine half-time pursuing a cork, the winger continued the punishment successful the 2nd 40 with different 2 tries.

Addo-Carr's haul made it 11 tries from 3 games successful this year's World Cup. Kangaroos teammate Valentine Holmes acceptable the grounds for the astir tries successful a azygous match, bagging six tries successful Australia's semi last triumph implicit Fiji 5 years ago.

"It conscionable wasn't my clip this twelvemonth to play origin," Addo-Carr said. "But I conscionable emotion playing with these boys and this coaching staff. I deliberation we person thing precise peculiar here."

Addo-Carr is wrong scope of Holmes' grounds of 12 tries successful a azygous World Cup tournament, portion Billy Slater's all-time World Cup grounds of 16 tries, acceptable betwixt 2008-2017, could beryllium successful danger.

Cameron Murray crossed doubly for the greenish and golds, with Liam Martin and Latrell Mitchell besides scoring successful a ascendant show from Mal Meninga's side.

Australia volition instrumentality connected the victor of Sunday morning's New Zealand-Fiji crippled successful adjacent week's semi-final.

Lebanon withstood a precocious surge from the Aussies successful the last 5 minutes of the archetypal fractional to spell into the interruption 30-0 down. They lone managed to transverse the enactment erstwhile and were conscionable blown distant by a superior Australia outfit. Josh Mansour went implicit for Lebanon's lone try.

"They taught america a acquisition contiguous connected however to play footy, Lebanon halfback Mitchell Moses said.

"We person qualified present for our adjacent satellite cupful and that is what we wanted to travel present and do.

"Some of the boys present look up to the boys successful the Australian side…for maine to skipper this broadside is thing that I volition cherish forever."

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