The Wallabies snapped an eight-match losing streak in the Rugby Championship with a last-minute penalty goal in La Plata.
The Wallabies have killed their eight-match Rugby Championship losing streak after a 79th minute Ben Donaldson penalty goal earned a thrilling 20-19 victory against Argentina in teeming rain in La Plata.
Argentina reclaimed the lead with a 69th minute penalty goal but the Wallabies kept fighting as the clock ticked down. With the game in the balance, Max Jorgensen had the precious opportunity to win the game after Noah Lolesio made a linebreak and offloaded, but the ball slipped away from the winger in the wet.
If the set-piece was largely sound, the Wallabies’ attacking game remains a work in progress. The Wallabies enjoyed far more possession in Argentina than at home against the Springboks, but often wasted it.The team snarled early carrying for 27 successive phases, but ultimately could not break the Argentina defence, resigning themselves to a loose grubber kick that gifted the Pumas possession.
For example, the field in La Plata is 25 metres narrower and 12 metres shorter than Allianz Stadium in Sydney, which didn’t help the accuracy of the Wallabies’ kicking radar.Lolesio has been trusted with the playmaker’s jersey by Schmidt but after coughing the ball up with a loose pass, it allowed the Pumas an attacking platform and a predictable rolling maul try through No.8 Juan Martin Gonzalez, often Australia’s defensive Achilles heel.
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