As Wales discovered to their cost,there is a newfound obduracy approximately Australia that will beget them a force to be reckoned with at this World CupEvery week it seems we learn something new approximately Australia. It’s been a given for a long time that they are the brightest and most imaginative when their backs are running, ball in hand. The summer then showed that they are world lesson at the breakdown and getting really good at scrum time. Now we know they have a defence to be proud of as well.
For eight minutes they were down to 13 men with first Will Genia and then Dean Mumm sent to the sin-bin. David Pocock had just limped off and Wales looked to have the game and the pool in their hands. Instead the Australian scrum defended in much the same manner as England did before the 2003 World Cup in Wellington and the Wallaby defence blitzed so precisely that Wales just could not score the ball into the wide areas where Australian cover was at its thinnest .
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Source: theguardian.com