Argentina claim shock victory over All Blacks as Scott Robertson left with plenty to ponder<\/p>\n
Argentina got their Rugby Championship campaign off to a superb start when they clinched a shock 38-30 bonus-point victory over New Zealand in Wellington on Saturday.<\/p>\n
In a fast paced and entertaining encounter, momentum between the two sides ebbed and flowed throughout but Los Pumas eventually got the rub of the green and outscored their hosts by four tries to three.<\/p>\n
Lucio Cinti, Mateo Carreras, Franco Molina and Agustin Creevy scored Argentina\u2018s tries while Santiago Carreras finished with an 18-point contribution after kicking four penalties and three conversions.<\/p>\n
For New Zealand Sam Darry, Anton Lienert-Brown and Mark Tele\u2019a dotted down while Damian McKenzie added three conversions and three penalties.<\/p>\n
The result means the All Blacks\u2019 winless run in Wellington continues and they have now won there only once in the past seven Tests and are winless in that city in their last four encounters.<\/p>\n
Argentina had the better of the early exchanges and spent most of the opening 10 minutes camped inside New Zealand\u2019s half but they had no reward for their efforts.<\/p>\n
The All Blacks eventually opened the scoring courtesy of a McKenzie penalty in the 11th minute before Darry crossed for the first try shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n
This, after McKenzie chipped ahead and regathered before offloading to Barrett who raced up field and soon found himself inside Los Pumas\u2019 half. He was confronted by the cover defence but kicked ahead before Darry gathered to score his first Test try.<\/p>\n
Despite trailing 10-0, Argentina did not panic and midway through the half they opened their account when Cinti crossed the whitewash after Pablo Matera and Santiago Chocobares combined brilliantly in the build-up.<\/p>\n
The next 10 minutes was an arm-wrestle as the sides battled to gain the ascendancy but the home side increased their lead in the 28th minute when McKenzie succeeded with his second penalty.<\/p>\n
In the 35th minute, the All Blacks increased their lead when Lienert-Brown ran onto a pass from McKenzie close to Argentina\u2019s try-line and swivelled through a tackle before dotting down.<\/p>\n
McKenzie\u2019s successful conversion meant New Zealand were leading 20-8 but this game\u2019s topsy-turvy nature continued when Pumas flyer Mateo Carreras pounced on a loose ball and displayed deft footwork to beat the All Blacks fly-half on his way over the whitewash.<\/p>\n
That meant the match was evenly poised at half-time with the hosts holding a 20-15 lead but Argentina were fastest out of the blocks after the break.<\/p>\n
In the 43rd minute, the visitors caught the men in black by surprise with a clever lineout variation in which a dummy jumper went up but the ball was thrown to Molina at the front of the set-piece, and the second-row powered over the try-line after a strong shove from his team-mates.<\/p>\n
His effort was converted by Santiago Carreras which meant the visitors moved in front for the first time and the lead changed hands twice in five minutes when McKenzie and the Pumas fly-half traded penalties.<\/p>\n
However, New Zealand struck back when Tele\u2019a crossed for his try in the 52nd minute after gathering a well-timed pass from TJ Perenara close to the visitors\u2019 try-line.<\/p>\n
McKenzie\u2019s conversion meant the All Blacks were leading 30-28 but that would be the last time they would score points as Los Pumas came to the fore with an outstanding performance in the final quarter.<\/p>\n
Santiago Carreras narrowed gap when he in the 69th minute, replacement hooker Creevy barged over from close quarters with the fly-half\u2019s conversion restoring his side\u2019s lead and he added the final nail in the All Blacks coffin when he slotted his fourth three-pointer off the kicking tee in game\u2019s closing stages.<\/p>\n
New Zealand 30<\/strong> Argentina 38<\/strong> The teams Argentina: 15 Juan Cruz Mallia, 14 Matias Moroni, 13 Lucio Cinti, 12 Santiago Chocobares, 11 Mateo Carreras, 10 Santiago Carreras, 9 Gonzalo Bertranou, 8 Juan Martin Gonzalez, 7 Marcos Kremer, 6 Pablo Matera (c), 5 Pedro Rubiolo, 4 Franco Molina, 3 Eduardo Bello, 2 Ignacio Ruiz, 1 Thomas Gallo Referee: Angus Gardner (Australia) Argentina claim shock victory over All Blacks as Scott Robertson left with plenty to ponder Argentina got their Rugby Championship campaign off to a superb start when they clinched a shock 38-30 bonus-point victory over New Zealand in Wellington on Saturday. In a fast paced and entertaining encounter, momentum between the two sides ebbed and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":21497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugbyheartland-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/vvfd.png?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wlzH-5AI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14642,"url":"https:\/\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/2021\/09\/18\/all-blacks-stay-unbeaten-in-the-fortinet-rugby-championship\/","url_meta":{"origin":21496,"position":0},"title":"ALL BLACKS STAY UNBEATEN IN THE FORTINET RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP","author":"admin_hland","date":"September 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"First half assurance set up another Fortinet Rugby Championship 36-13 bonus point win for the All Blacks over Argentina at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday. 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\nTries: Sam Darry (14′), Anton Lienert-Brown (35′), Mark Telea (52′),
\nConversions: Damian McKenzie (15′)(36′)(52′)
\nPenalties: Damian McKenzie (11′)(28′)(46′)<\/p>\n
\nTries: Lucio Cinti (22′), Mateo Carreras (37′), Franco Molina (43′), Agustin Creevy (69′)
\nConversions: Santiago Carreras (37′)(44′)(70′)
\nPenalties: Santiago Carreras (30′)(49′)(56′)(78′)<\/p>\n
\nNew Zealand: 15 Beauden Barrett, 14 Sevu Reece, 13 Anton Lienert-Brown, 12 Jordie Barrett, 11 Mark Tele\u2019a, 10 Damian McKenzie, 9 TJ Perenara, 8 Ardie Savea (c), 7 Dalton Papali\u2019i, 6 Ethan Blackadder, 5 Sam Darry, 4 Tupou Vaa\u2019i, 3 Tyrel Lomax, 2 Codie Taylor, 1 Ethan De Groot
\nReplacements: 16 Asafo Aumua, 17 Ofa Tu\u2019ungafasi, 18 Fletcher Newell, 19 Josh Lord, 20 Wallace Sititi, 21 Cortez Ratima, 22 Rieko Ioane, 23 Will Jordan<\/p>\n
\nReplacements: 16 Agustin Creevy, 17 Mayco Vivas, 18 Joel Sclavi, 19 Efrain Elias, 20 Tomas Lavanini, 21 Joaquin Oviedo, 22 Lautaro Bazan Velez, 23 Tomas Albornoz<\/p>\n
\nAssistant Referees: Nic Berry (Australia), Andrea Piardi (Italy)
\nTMO: Brett Cronan (Australia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"