New Zealand coach Ian Foster says past Rugby World Cup semi-finals will count for nothing during this weekend's game against Argentina.
Beauden Barrett and teammates during an All Blacks training session ahead of their World Cup semi-final against Argentina. Picture: Hannah Peters/Getty Imagessemi-finals will count for nothing during Friday night’s last four game with Argentina., three-time champions, are preparing for their ninth appearance at this stage of the tournament, having won four of their previous eight semi-finals., after last weekend’s tense quarter-final success over Ireland.
In 2007 they lost to South Africa in the semi-finals, going on to beat France in the third place play-off, and eight years later in 2015 it was Australia, coached by current Pumas’ boss Michael Cheika, who denied them a place in the final against the All Blacks., and overcame them last August in New Zealand after having claimed a first ever win over Foster’s side in 2020.
“We know they’ve got that as we play them regularly and they’ve been difficult opponents. So there will be no surprises,” Foster added. “We couldn’t get too close to Dan as he had a nice cream jacket on which meant none of us could hug him as we were all dirty,” Foster joked.
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