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Five talking points from Ireland v Argentina
Unfortunately, Argentina’s swash-buckling style leaves them open in an area that Ireland are especially well equipped to counter attack: the ruck.
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Argentina survived a valiant second half comeback from Ireland to reach just their second Rugby World Cup semi-final with 43-20 victory at the Millennium Stadium. The Scots led Australia into the last minute until conceding an unlucky penalty which Bernard Foley nailed in the rain at Twickenham for the Wallabies to prevail 35-34. “We’re excited about it but I don’t think we’re dwelling on the history and what it means”.
Whether or not the relatively young professional scene actually is holding back northern hemisphere sides-the game was played on an amateur basis until 1987-Hansen also proposed another, more basic factor: the southern countries simply have better weather.
Ireland tried to build their way back into the game, going through the phases, but a wild Madigan kick out on the full didn’t help matters as it put the pressure back on inside his side’s half.
“We haven’t looked beyond Sunday”, Easterby said.
“We started changing, building, it’s not something that has just started, it goes back”.
But the result was not all that surprising, even though Ireland started as slight favourite.
Paddy Jackson, the third choice flyhalf, moves onto the replacements’ bench while the Irish have also called up Isaac Boss as cover at scrumhalf, a position in which Madigan also plays.
Shorn of indomitable leaders Paul O’Connell and Peter O’Mahony through injury – both sat in the stands – and without linchpin fly-half Johnny Sexton due to groin trouble, this was a match too far for Ireland. After pushing the All Blacks close in their tournament opener, they were impressive in running over Georgia, Tonga and Namibia. Four, often brutal, years in the Rugby Championship has made the Pumas rework their game.
That passion has been evident in Argentina’s travelling support and the rapport of the Pumas with their fans wherever they have played in England. “Playing the best on a yearly basis requires preparation and perfection, that makes you get used to it, it becomes normal”, he said.
“Certainly for the players who have been a part of it before, we’ll be able to reiterate that if we lose this weekend and we don’t turn up at the weekend, that’s the end of it. You don’t get a second chance”.
Ireland centre Keith Earls runs with the ball next to Argentina prop Ramiro Herrera.
Schmidt said: “I thought Dev was a bit unlucky, at 23-20 I felt Sanchez – who was imperious today with his kicking and so many elements of his game – but I do think he milked that for everything that it was worth”. “We are very proud of our players who are the main protagonists here”.
Argentina will now face the victor of Australia and Scotland in the last quarter-final tie, while Ireland once again failed to reach the last four despite playing in every World Cup to date.
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Time and again the Pumas made quick metres around the fringes and then shifted their focus to the wider channels when they often caught Irish frontrow stragglers defending expansive swathes of turf.