Rugby League World Cup: Josh Addo-Carr stars as Australia reach semi-finals with resounding win over Lebanon

Josh Addo-Carr starred arsenic Australia reached the semi-finals of the World Cup with a resounding 48-4 triumph implicit Lebanon successful Huddersfield.

Josh Mansour went implicit successful the country for Lebanon's lone try.

Australia volition play New Zealand oregon Fiji successful the past 4 successful Leeds connected Friday, 11 November (19:45 GMT).

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.

Meninga has admitted that helium has faced a fig of enactment dilemmas successful the hunt for his strongest line-up for the knockout stages of the competition.

But against Michael Cheika determined side, his players mostly vindicated his decisions. Nathan Cleary, who got the motion astatine half-back up of Daly Cherry-Evans, was fantabulous with shot successful hand, though his first-half kicking was unusually erratic.

But portion determination had been immoderate statement - peculiarly successful Australia - implicit the centre and hooker positions, occupied by Jack Wighton and Harry Grant, the instrumentality of the free-scoring Addo-Carr is little contentious.

The lone flimsy astonishment was that helium did not adjacent oregon amended Valentine Holmes oregon Ken Irvine's grounds of six planetary tries successful a azygous lucifer for Australia, having taken his tally to 5 with much than 20 minutes remaining.

With 9 tries already successful the tournament, Holmes' grounds of 12 successful a azygous World Cup tourney present looks progressively wrong reach,. Billy Slater's all-time World Cup grounds of 16 tries, acceptable betwixt 2008-2017, is besides connected the horizon.

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