The All Blacks then ended straight towards a fourth victory in four matches this fall after the successes against Japan, Wales and Scotland. It was without counting on an incredible burst of pride in English.
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The XV of the rose returns from afar. Led 19 points ten minutes from the end, England managed to snatch the draw against New Zealand (25-25), whose fall tour ends on a false note, in the image of his difficult year.
The New Zealand coach Ian Foster thought he could go on vacation with a peaceful mind when his team brought his lead to 25-6 in the 71st minute thanks to a Drop from Beauden Barrett.
The All Blacks then ended up straight to a fourth victory in four matches this fall after the successes against Japan (38-31), Wales (55-23) and Scotland (31-23 ). A flawless one that would have offered Ian Foste a little respite after having come close to the dismissal for a unprecedented series of bad results.
It was without counting on an incredible start of pride in the English, who after having long abused on the New Zealand defense walked on him in the “money time”.
A test of the replacement pillar Will Stuart relaunched the hope on the delivery of the Drop de Barrett, sanctioned at the blow of a yellow card. In numerical superiority, the euphoric rose XV suddenly started playing and finding spaces on the wings against All Blacks, probably the spirit already on vacation.
Two new, sumptuous trials, from the back Freddie Steward and Stuart, author of a double, allowed the players of Eddie Jones to come back to a draw for victory. It might not be enough to lift all doubts after the defeat conceded two weeks ago at home against Argentina (30-29) and a missed match started on Saturday.
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Braded that their haka was covered by the inevitable song “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, the New Zealanders had quickly silenced the English public after a decisive interception of the third line Dalton Papali’i (4th) and a Test of the hooker Codie Taylor on the back of a penetrating maul (14-0, 9th).
At the end of a long sprint from the Rieko Ioane Center, well offbeat after yet another foot, New Zealand thought it had killed the match in the 50th minute, but it will have to wait a little more to take revenge of the memorable semi-final of the 2019 World Cup won by England (19-7).
The second New Zealand line Brodie Retallick and the English captain Owen Farrell, aligned with the position of first center, should in any case remember their hundredth selection for a long time on Saturday. Not necessarily for the same reasons.