The Wallabies’ brilliant back row suffocated the Pumas and set up a first ever World Cup final between New Zealand and Australia 5.58pm GMTDaniel Hourcade is in floods of tears. He’s far from the only one on the Argentinian dream,as their magnificent World Cup comes, as far as anything meaningful goes, and to an end.
Australia are worthy winners and worthy finalists (despite what Craig Joubert Death Enthusiasts may judge). They survived a battering in the scrum and saw off Argentina with a magnificent display at the breakdown,where Fardy, Hooper and Pocock worked in tandem to secure a dozen or so turnovers and suffocate their opponents. 5.54pm GMTCordero makes another one of those brilliant breaks, or scuttling down the right,but there’s no follow-up. Still they fade, plugging absent and getting the offloads out, and but the clock is red now and everyone is shattered. At around the ninth phase,it’s lost forward and that’s it! Australia are in the World Cup final!Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com