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The Wallabies have endured a Halloween nightmare to hand the All Blacks the Bledisloe Cup for the 18th consecutive year.
Jordie Barrett of the All Blacks dives to score a try during the 2020 Tri-Nations Cup and Bledisloe match between the Australian Wallabies and the New Zealand All Blacks at ANZ Stadium on October 31, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Source: Getty
New Zealand racked up six attempts to one, with fifth eighth and man of the match Richie Mo’unga notching a brilliant double and a personal loot of 23 points as the All Blacks took an unbeatable 2-0 lead in all four. -Game series with a 43-5 record win on Saturday night.
“We are suffering a lot from that,” Wallabies captain Michael Hooper said.
“It’s a blow to confidence now.
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Mo’unga racked up more than half of the All Blacks points in the 5-43 point demolition of the Wallabies. Source: SKY
“We have to go back and consider sticking with our game plan.”
Wallabies coach Dave Rennie delivered Test debuts to Noah Lolesio in the fifth eighth and inside center Irae Simone, marking the first time in 73 years that Australia have achieved a 10-12 rookie combination against the All Blacks. .
But the daring play backfired, Mo’unga’s dominance in teaching Lolesio in the 20-year-old’s forgettable first half helped the All Blacks take a 26-0 lead at the break.
Defending as a fullback, Lolesio struggled with his positional play as the All Blacks, armed with more than 60 percent possession and territory, mounted attack after attack.
Lolesio’s kicking game was also poor.
But the young playmaker wasn’t the only one who had a bad night.
Three-round winger Filipo Daugunu crashed into the dirt from the highs of his Wellington debut in the series opening draw, a succession of handling errors and his first stage in the sin-bin also hurt the Wallabies.
Daugunu promised before the game to hit his All Blacks opponent and Bledisloe II’s chief destroyer Claeb Clarke, but was very wrong at the time, leaving the Wallabies with 14 men in just the third minute after eliminating their winger contrary in the air.
The All Blacks wasted no time making the Wallabies pay, supporting Karl Tu’inukuafe’s crossing two minutes later for the first try of the night.
In an action-packed first quarter hour, New Zealand winger Jordie Barrett was trashed for elbowing Wallabies fullback Dane Haylett-Petty before TMO Angus Gardner denied the All Blacks two more attempts. in the space of four minutes.
First, hooker Dane Coles was deemed to have thrown the ball over the line after displaying great foot speed to wobble Mo’unga’s cross kick.
Then Marika Koroibete miraculously forced Clarke to the finish with a brilliant George Gregan-style try saver.
But there was no truce on the part of the All Blacks and they inevitably claimed their second try when Mounga switched inside and beat Wallabies hooker Brandon Paenga-Amosa, then Nic White and Lolesio to get the rhythm launched in the corner.
Mo’unga was back again shortly after when he received a beautiful chip kick from Beauden Barrett and ran 70 meters to score.
Coles was not denied a second time when he cashed in on the All Blacks’ deadly driving mallet in the half hour.
A destructive solo run by teammate Jordan Petaia led Lolesio to charge for Australia’s only attempt of the game two minutes after the second half.
But another five points for Rieko Ioane and Jordie Barrett completed the beating, the All Blacks’ margin of victory the largest over the Wallabies in 169 trans-Tasman events dating back to 1903.
“They were very clinical,” Hooper said.
“They played very well in the conditions, they jumped on a lot of fumbles.
“I just don’t think we were accurate.
“So again we give away possession too easily and then we don’t kick smart.”
