Wallabies ratings for Daugunu, Koroibete
THE Wallabies were their own worst enemies on Sunday afternoon, as the All Blacks pounced on their mistakes to win 27-7 at Eden Park and go one-nil up in the Bledisloe series.
They made 20 turnovers with ball-in-hand, while also missing 43 tackles in defence. The frustrating thing too was that the Wallabies had opportunities. Marika Koroibete was held up over the line and should have done better when the score was 20-7. Literally from the next play too, hooker Brandon Paenga-Amosa was penalised for double movement as he attempted to score. Here are Fijian players ratings from the 20-point defeat — the Wallabies’ 20th straight
Picture. FILE loss against the All Blacks at Eden Park, a record that dates back to 1989.
Once again Daugunu looked lethal with every touch, but he simply didn’t have the same space he had a week earlier. Defensively Daugunu was caught out a couple of times. As wingers tend to do, he came in when he should have backed his inside man. That happened in the 43rd minute when Jordie Barrett scored. In the 68th minute, he comes in fractionally too much from the outside and that allowed Damian McKenzie to find some space on the outside and was eventually tackled 5 metres out.
A real rocks and diamonds match from the Wallabies’ winger.
He saved the day in the 21st minute as Barrett put the ball on the toe and Koroibete got their first. Koroibete’s handling hurt him though. He knocked on in the 37th minute from a Ned Hanigan switch when there was space in behind the All Blacks; he knocked on again in the 76th minute from a first-phase set-play when the Wallabies had space too. But then there was the other side of the game; he had one marvelous weaving run in the 56th minute but had no teammates in support. He should have scored in the 50th minute too, but tried to run over Mo’unga rather than stepping on the inside before contact. He does that, he scores. Defensively, too, he was exposed by misreading Patrick Tuipulotu in the 54th minute and Sam Cane scored a split-second later.