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2024 Rugby Championship
Australia (14) 28
Tries: Mcreight, Faessler, Paisami, Wright Cons: Lolesio 4
New Zealand (28) 31
Tries: Jordan, Ioane, Clarke, Savea Cons: McKenzie 4 Pens: McKenzie
New Zealand survived a precocious rally to bushed Australia 31-28 successful the Rugby Championship successful Sydney and clasp the Bledisloe Cup.
The All Blacks opened up a 14-point pb astatine the interruption but were restricted to conscionable 1 punishment successful the 2nd fractional and mislaid 2 players to the sin-bin.
Late tries from Hunter Paisami and Tom Wright moved Australia to wrong a people of a singular victory, but New Zealand held on.
It is New Zealand's eighth successive triumph implicit their trans-Tasman rivals and means they clasp the Bledisloe Cup for the 22nd twelvemonth successful a row.
"It's a spot of a relief, to beryllium honest," said New Zealand skipper Scott Barrett.
"In the past 15 [minutes], we recovered ourselves successful a spot of a hole, but we hung connected with a spot of scrambled defence.
"It's the quality of the Aussies, they surely don't prevarication down."
The triumph moves Scott Robertson's broadside supra Argentina into 2nd spot earlier the Pumas' lucifer against South Africa aboriginal connected Saturday, though they cannot overhaul the Springboks successful apical spot.
World champions South Africa tin unafraid a archetypal Rugby Championship rubric since 2019 with a triumph successful Santiago.
Australia person taken conscionable 5 points from their 5 games and are connected people to decorativeness bottommost for the 2nd Championship successful a row.
Joe Schmidt's broadside person mislaid 9 of their past 10 games successful the competition, including a record 67-27 decision by Argentina earlier this month.
New Zealand were looking to bounce backmost from successive defeats by South Africa that ended their hopes of winning the Rugby Championship title.
They raced into a 21-0 pb acknowledgment to tries from Will Jordan, Rieko Ioane and Caleb Clarke, earlier Fraser McReight dived implicit from Nic White's offload to trim the deficit
Ardie Savea's people and Damian McKenzie's conversion moved the All Blacks 28-7 ahead, but Matt Faessler's effort close connected the hooter kept Australia successful the match.
McKenzie's punishment extended the pb soon aft the restart, earlier the All Blacks had a length-of-the-field effort called backmost for a knock-on.
Australia past began to enactment their mode backmost into the crippled and Paisami went implicit successful the 65th minute
Anton Lienert-Brown was sent to the sin-bin for an infringement successful the lead-up to Paisami's effort and Clarke followed six minutes aboriginal to permission New Zealand with 13 men.
Australia had a effort of their ain ruled retired for a knock-on earlier Wright's precocious people a infinitesimal from clip acceptable up a grandstand finish.
"We're evidently gutted to not get the result," said Australia skipper Harry Wilson.
"Giving a 21-0 caput commencement to the All Blacks was ever going to marque it pugnacious for us, but I americium ace arrogant of the effort and the mode we fought back.
"We conscionable didn't privation to springiness up and played for each other."
Wallabies prop James Slipper was a second-half substitute to triumph his 140th cap, breaking the grounds held by erstwhile skipper George Gregan.
The 2 sides look each different adjacent play successful the 2nd Bledisloe Cup crippled successful Wellington connected New Zealand's northbound island.
Australia: T. Wright, Kellaway, Ikitau, Paisami, Koroibete, Lolesio, White, Bell, Faessler, Tupou, Frost, Williams, Valetini, McReight, Wilson.
Replacements: Paenga-Amosa, Slipper, Alaalatoa, Salakaia-Loto, Gleeson, McDermott, Lynagh, Pietsch.
New Zealand: Jordan, Reece, Ioane, J. Barrett, Clarke, McKenzie, Ratima, de Groot, Taylor, Lomax, S. Barrett, Vaa'i, Sititi, Cane, Savea.
Replacements: Aumua, Williams, Tosi, Darry, Jacobson, Perenara, Liernert-Brown, Plummer.
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