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Nations Championship – Round Three
Argentina (3) 24
Will try. Carreras, penalty, Picardo Disadvantages: Bathroom 2 Pen: Bathroom
England (19) 31
Will try. Freeman, Earl 2, M. Smith, Fay-Waboso Disadvantages: F Smith 3
England defeated Argentina in the Nations Championship.
With England leading 31-24 after 13 players, Argentinian winger Bautista Delgui scored a corner goal in the last game to tie the game.
Referee Angus Gardner awarded the try on the field, but television match official Brett Cronan said Delgy had made contact.
Despite Gardner’s repeated submissions that there was no clear evidence to overturn his original fielding call, the attempt was eventually dropped.
Henry Slade’s cover move on Delgi proved to be a crucial moment, Gardner was surrounded by the Argentine players in frustration at full-time.
A very exciting and action-packed game saw a total of seven yellow cards.
Steve Borthwick’s side looked set for back-to-back defeats after Tommy Freeman’s try and two goals from Ben Earl gave them a 16-point half-time lead.
The Pumas they wore Copies The football team From the 1986 World Cup, he scored two yellow cards before England were booked, but their own misconduct saw the visitors penalized further.
Marcus Smith’s corner attempt came against number eight Joaquin Oviedo in the sin-bin, before Santiago Carreras joined his team-mate on 10 minutes.
An individual try from Emmanuel Faye-Waboso then silenced the emotional home crowd.
However, his English successors, Henry Pollock and Emmanuel Iogun, were sent to Sin-Bin, which met his nerve ending.
Justo Picardo’s late try and Argentina’s subsequent break did enough to force the full-time whistle as England’s struggling 13-man Noah Curry and Slade combination.
After the Six Nations won just once this year – England’s worst performance since the tournament expanded from the Five Nations in 2000 – this summer’s Games were crucial to Borthwick’s future.
Despite a heavy loss to world champions South Africa at Ellis Park, wins over Fiji and Argentina put England well into November’s Championship games.
More to follow.
