How the All Blacks stunned South Africa with a five-minute blitz of sublime attack
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How the All Blacks stunned South Africa with a five-minute blitz of sublime attack

The Telegraph  

Five minutes, 17 points. Saturday evening’s Pool B game in Yokohama represented a tight, tense Test match in which the game’s modern trends – rush defence, kick-pressure, transition attack and ball movement – came to the fore. Ominously for the rest of the Rugby World Cup 2019 field, New Zealand looked extremely sharp when it counted. Contained for the first quarter by South Africa’s aggression, they burst into life in the 20th minute. Reece has had to push up flatter because of the presence of Makazole Mapimpi, while full-back Beauden Barrett is holding the centre-field, tracking the direction of South Africa’s phase-play prior to the bounce back.

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