Ireland brings New Zealand's colors back

The statistics say that the first Ireland-New Zealand game was played in Dublin on November 25, 1905, with a 15-0 away victory. It took the Clover XV 111 years to defeat rugby's most emblematic team, and they also did it on neutral ground, at Chicago's Soldier Field, when they won 40-29.

Well, since then he has added two new victories, both at the Aviva Stadium in the Irish capital (16-9 in 2018 and 29-20 today), although along the way he succumbed in the quarterfinals of the 2019 World Cup in Japan.

On this occasion, in front of 51,000 spectators, Ireland took a 5-0 lead with an early try by Jame Lowe, but the All Blacks rallied to turn the score around and make it 5-10 at half-time with a Jordie Barrett penalty. and an essay by Codie Taylor transformed by Barrett.

As soon as the match resumed, the XV del Trébol took the lead again with two trials by Ronan Kelleher and Caelan Doris, the latter transformed by Jonathan Sexton, who converted a penalty stroke for 20-10.

The All Blacks closed the gap with a Will Jordan essay transformed by Barrett with 10 minutes to go (20-17), Joey Carbery scored from a penalty kick for 23-17, although Barrett immediately responded with another for the visitors (23-17). twenty).

Two penalty strokes in the final stretch by Joey Carbery established the final 29-20 and sealed the seventh consecutive victory for Ireland.

England 32-15 Australia

Nor did Australia fare much better, losing for the eighth successive time to England. The Wallabies succumbed at Twickenham 32-15.

Freddie Steward scored England's first try in the sixth minute to neutralize James O'Connor's penalty kick to open the scoring.

O'Connor kept Australia in contention to cut the hosts' lead to 16-15 at half-time.

After the restart England opened the gap thanks to a series of two penalty kicks converted by Owen Farrell and one more by Marcus Smith, before Jamie Blamire had his sixth try in just four appearances to make it 32-15.

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Owen Farrell finished the match with five converted penalty shots. Australia scored all their points with another five from James O'Connor.

Scotland 15-30 South Africa

Who did not fail was the world champion, South Africa, who achieved their second consecutive victory in the Autumn Series of rugby nations on Saturday by beating Scotland 15-30 at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh.

Seven days after debuting with a victory over Wales (18-23), the Springboks beat Scotland with two tries from Makazole Mapimpi, three penalties converted by Elton Jantjies -who converted one of his tries-, another two from Handre Pollard and one more from Frans Steyn.

For Scotland, looking to follow up on Sunday's win over Australia, captain Stuart Hogg scored two tries to equal Tony Stanger (1989-1998) and Ian Smith (1924-1933), with 24, as the leading scorers in Essays from the history of your selection. Finn Russell scored a penalty stroke and a conversion.

Italy 16-37 Argentina

The Argentine team did not struggle either, which crushed Italy 37-16 this Saturday and recovered after last week's defeat against France (29-20), in a friendly match played in Treviso (northeast Italy) .

Argentina imposed its law from the beginning, aggressively attacking the Italian line and sealing two tries in 27 minutes, with Marcos Kremer and José Luis González, both converted by Emiliano Boffelli.

Another free-kick scored by Boffelli gave Argentina a 17-0 lead, before two free-kicks by Paolo Garbisi just before half-time tempered Italy's performance slightly to 6-17.

There was no room to look for epic comebacks for Italy, because Matías Moroni, as soon as he entered the field in the second half, sealed an essay that, converted by Boffelli, once again put a lot of ground in between.

Italy's only "try" came from the hand of Steffen Varney, an Italo-Welshman, which, together with Garbisi's conversion and another free-kick, allowed the Italians to cover up a result that would end up equally lopsided in favor of the Pumas.

Mario Ledesma's boys sealed their victory thanks to an essay by Santiago Cordero, another by Facundo Bosch and a free kick by Nicolás Sánchez.

Argentina's next commitment will be on November 21 against Ireland.

In the other two international friendlies of the day, Japan and Canada won Portugal and Belgium, respectively, by 25-38 and 0-24.