Ten Samoan players who started against Australian in Samoa’s last rugby match have been named to start against Russia at 10.15pm tomorrow.
Samoa coach Vaeluaga Jackson named his team last night.

The team includes players such as Michael Alaalatoa, TJ Ioane, Tusi Pisi and Tim Nanai-Williams.

At 37 years and 268 days Tusi Pisi surpasses Peter Fatialofa (36 years 45 days) as the oldest Samoan to play at a Rugby World Cup.

Pisi needs to score ten points to overtake Silao Leaega as the leading points scorer for Samoa at the World Cup.

Tim Nanai-Williams on the other hand did not play for Samoa from the 25th of November 2017 to the 7th of September 2019.

Nanai-Williams will be the second member of his family to play at RWC 2019 after cousin Sonny Bill Williams appeared off the bench for New Zealand against South Africa on Saturday night.

Samoa team for Russia clash:

1. Logovii Mulipola
2. Motu Matu’u
3. Michael Alaalatoa
4. Teofilo Paulo
5. Kane Le’aupepe
6. Chris Vui (capt.)
7. TJ Ioane
8. Afaesetiti Amosa
9. Dwayne Polataivao
10. Tusi Pisi
11. Ed Fidow
12. Rey Lee-Lo
13. Alapati Leiua
14. Ah See Tuala
15. Tim Nanai-Williams

16. Ray Niuia
17. Paul Alo-Emile
18. Jordan Lay
19. Senio Toleafoa
20. Josh Tyrell
21. Melani Matavao
22. AJ Alatimu
23. Henry Taefu

Russia coach Lyn Jones (WAL) has named his team for the Pool A match Samoa at Kumagaya Rugby Stadium on Tuesday, 24 September:

1. Valery Morozov
2. Stanislav Selskii
3. Kirill Gotovtsev
4. Andrey Ostrikov
5. Bogdan Fedotko
6. Vitaly Zhivatov
7. Tagir Gadzhiev
8. Nikita Vavilin
9. Vasily Dorofeev
10. Yury Kushnarev
11. Kirill Golosnitskiy
12. Dmitry Gerasimov
13. Vladimir Ostroushko
14. German Davydov
15. Vasily Artemyev (capt.)

16. Evgeny Matveev
17. Andrei Polivalov
18. Azamat Bitiev
19. Andrey Garbuzov
20. Anton Sychev
21. Dmitry Perov
22. Ramil Gaisin
23. Vladislav Sozonov