Australia vs Argentina RC Round 4 2025

Should be another cracker. Anthems.

Early running and early penalty Arg. 3-0

Suaalii scores an absolute blinder. Beating a tackle before carrying two Argies for a few meters to get over the line. 7-3

Now Montoya scores as he charges down Edmed's kick. 10-7. Not Edmed's brightest moment early in the test. White maybe a little lazy on the cover back.

Nic White with a terrific read intercepts the Arg pass but Aus knock it in the subsequent play and it's back with Argentina.

Argentina challenging the Oz defense. Great to see some proper rugby.

Oz leaking penalties. Another one right in front for Arg. 13-7

Howzat for an Argie comeback? This game's a good watch, dunno who I want to win.

Penalty Oz, kickable. Chocobares down after a tackle on Tupuo. Looks like a bit of a lazy arm after impact on his shoulder.

Howzit Blob.

Choco back up, Oz goes for the lineout.

Lekker, hoping its a memorable day for all the right reasons

Valetini just about there but he didn't get it down.

Edmed not having a good one out there. Mixup between him and White collecting the kockoff and big advantage to Arg as they're back on the Oz 22.

Jorgenson gets a yellow for hanging an arm out for the pass. Bit harsh maybe but the Argies are pushing them and had two men over outside Jorgenson.

Oz will have to be on it or they can lose this game in the next 10 minutes. Argentina is blowing hot right now.

Paisami doing some huge work on defense for Oz.

Huge run by Valetini sets up a good Oz attack but Suaalii can't gather Paisami's pass and Arg counters, last pass goes astray.

Edmed with a little ill advised run out of his 22, good initially but a poor pass has his man isolated and another penalty Arg.

16-7 Arg

Suaalii gets around Cinti with ease, Paisami kicks the ball too deep.

Oz holding out by the skin of their teeth on their own line. All started through a poor kick by Edmed.

Oz desperately need a better starting flyhalf. Lynagh, Edmed, these guys are putting them at a huge disadvantage early on. You're not going to chase down 10 or 20 points in every game when JOC comes on to steady things.

great defence Oz

Great break Paisami. Edmed now with a good 50/22. That's better.

Another Edmed chip goes straight to Arg and Oz is back on their own 22. Oz has managed to weather the man down situation without too much damage but they are being stretched still. Players look out on their feet, may need to slow things down a bit.

Great call ref on a high shot review by Wilson. Went in low enough but the Arg 9 dropped his stance suddenly.

One bad pass from the ruck by Tupuo gets Oz under pressure and Arg will probably stretch their lead here. 19-7

Arg 3 just standing in the Oz backline in the leadup to that penalty. Should have been penalized.

Another break by Paisami but his offload goes to Arg. Oz their own worst enemy, high error rate. 19-7 HT.

Paisami sporting the kind of stats you want from an inside center despite an error or two. 50m, 2 clean breaks, 6 defenders beaten. Both breaks through traffic as well.

2H starts with McD on for White and Angus Bell on too.

Oz gets penalized again, should be 3 more to Arg. Just slowly being choked out of the game. 22-7. That's 15 points through penalties.

Oz again just about there but the offload goes to ground.

Paisami showing that the basic stuff DDA gets talked up about is in just about every international 12's arsenal - with most having a better skillset outside of it.

Oz keeps kicking their possession away and Arg keeps running them off their feet. I don't think they have this one.

Another kickable penalty Arg. Oz is losing the game for themselves. This will be 18 points conceded through penalties. Arg doing nothing funny, just going through the phases and pressurizing Oz with their running, the penalties come. Oz on the other hand is impatient, throwing 50/50 offloads and passes and kicking the ball back to Arg instead of building pressure. 25-7

I'm surprised JOC isn't on yet.

Another penalty. Ref is hammering Oz at the breakdowns. JOC coming on now but it's probably too late. It will take a miracle.

10 penalties to 2. Hope the Argies don't bitch about being blown out of the game again after this one.