NEW ZEALAND 62 FRANCE 13
Scorers: New Zealand 62 (Brodie Retallick, Nehe Milner-Skudder, Julian Savea 3, Jerome Kaino, Kieran Read, Tawera Kerr-Barlow 2 tries; Dan Carter 7 con, pen)
France 13 (Louis Picamoles try; Scott Spedding pen; Morgan Parra con, pen)
HT: 29-13
A complete performance from the New Zealand All Blacks
Many will say it is a ‘complete performance’ from the New Zealand All Blacks. After such a wonderful match, besides the insights of reporters and commentators, we see how much can be gained from comments made to media directly after the match. Interviews and recordings and more from the All Blacks and South African teams reaction, which will all be revealed Monday night NZ time.
The key result from Cardiff has been set in place by strategies and preparations that the All Black management have developed over years, and in that time they have attempted to communicate that with media. Successful more in the last four years since Steve Hansen has been in charge, these collected statements from All Blacks coaching staffs in the last 12 hours will help to prove that all the long hours at work were well worth it for NZ Rugby staffs.
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen said “Could we feel it building? As I said when I named the team earlier in the week, there’s a difference between pool play and a knockout game because if you get it wrong you go home,” says Hansen. “If you couple the attitude with the talent, you know you can do certain things.
“When you come to the World Cup you come with a plan and we’ve had one. It’s probably been questioned by a few people, I guess. But the key people who didn’t question it were in the group…we had some players who really stood up and played particularly well, but we have just earned the right to go to training on Monday.
“We can’t get too excited.”
As quoted by the New Zealand Herald, those who doubted the All Blacks now realize the extent of their potential. “I think it is a combination of the hard work that we have been putting in here [World Cup] and throughout the year to be honest,” said All Black first-five Daniel Carter about the performance.
“A lot of it is about playing what you see and a lot of it is just backing your instincts. When you have done the preparation and hard work leading up to it, it gives you the confidence to go out there and play.
“You are not over thinking which tends to be what we did in previous games. We were trying to stick to a gameplan and trying to remember moves. It wasn’t always technically perfect but the fact the desire was there and the willingness that really showed.”And the player it was most visible from, was winger Julian Savea.
The New Zealand winger scored three tries to take to eight his current tally at Rugby World Cup 2015, equaling the record of both Jonah Lomu (1999) and Bryan Habana (2007) Those legends scored their eight in one individual tournament. Savea also became only the third player to post a hat-trick of tries in a Rugby World Cup finals match [quarterfinal] after South Africa’s Chester Williams and fellow New Zealander Jonah Lomu.
His hat-trick also see’s him leap-from Lomu into fifth place on the list of All Blacks try scorers; Savea now has 38 tries in 39 tests, while Lomu scored 37 tries in took 63 Tests.
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