- raoulle a écrit:
- */* a écrit:
- surtout un beau hold up. Le deuxième essais français n'est pas valable pour en avant de passe entre Traille et Michalak !
et alors ?
D'autant plus que personne dans l'équipe de nouvelle-zélande elle même ne discute une seule seconde le score ou quoique ce soit. Lu sur le site des All Blacks:
All Blacks failed to take chances - Henry
07/10/2007
Sportal.co.nz
Graham Henry - Photosport
All
Blacks coach Graham Henry praised France, especially its defence, after
its stunning upset 20-18 win over New Zealand in their World Cup
quarter-final in Cardiff on Sunday.
Henry said the All Blacks did not play well but the French were particularly tough and played well to take their opportunities.
He said he was proud of the All Blacks who had been the best to work with over the last four years.
"We are realistic, the better side won on the day," he said.
Knowing
full well the effect that previous losses have caused in New Zealand by
way of public reaction, Henry said, "I think people will judge how they
want to judge. I feel comfortable. I have done everything I can to
insure we have done the best we can as an All Black side."
Assistant coach Steven Hansen
made the point that while the people of New Zealand may be gutted, they
should pause for a moment and realise that the players themselves were
feeling gutted 10,000 times worse.
There were some players who
had played their last game for the All Blacks and the loss will be the
last memory some of them will have of their association with the team.
"We've just got to get on with it and wait for next time we have an opportunity," he said.
Captain Richie McCaw said some of those players making their last appearances were shattered by the outcome.
"The
amount of work that has gone into this, three years the guys have
sweated. They have put a lot of hard work in and over time we have had
dreams of what we are going to do.
"I'm at a loss as to why we didn't play as well as we would have liked," he said.
Henry said the game was lost in the second half when the All Blacks failed to make the most of opportunities.
"We built the game but didn't finish things off," he said.
"France
defended superbly. They played with passion and fire. This is a
different French side than we have played [recently]. They deserve
credit for how they have defended and played," he said.
et aussi
French do it again at World Cup
07/10/2007
Sportal.co.nz
Richie McCaw - Photosport
New
Zealand suffered its worst World Cup performance when being eliminated
18-20 in the quarter-finals by a stoic French team at Cardiff's
Millennium Stadium on Sunday (NZT).
The French produced yet
another stunning performance in the vital stages of the tournament to
save their own World Cup campaign and to send New Zealand on another
four year search for the Holy Grail.
It was a double blow for the Southern Hemisphere after Australia's earlier elimination by England.
New
Zealand mounted a strong counter attack after the French took the lead
in the 68th minute but there was no way through and the mistakes caused
by the French pressure saw the strangling of the style which had
dominated world rugby over the last four years.
Uncharacteristic
mistakes in the heady atmosphere of Cardiff resulted in the All Blacks
suffering badly and the usual assurance was lacking in the performance.
New Zealand led 13-3 at halftime but France made the stronger start in the second half.
Yet after France drew level at 13-13, it was a 62nd minute try to Rodney So'oialo that regained the lead and seemed to set New Zealand up for a comfortable run home.
However, as was the case in the so-often talked about game of 1999, the Richie McCaw-led side suffered the earliest knock out of the World Cup by an All Blacks team.
Two bad mistakes on attack cost New Zealand dearly after So'oialo's try.
Firstly replacement first five-eighths Nick Evans made a superb break and passed when he didn't need to in the tackle and then wing Joe Rokocoko made a forward pass at the back of the All Blacks from a French kick.
It
was from that scrum that French replacement Frederic Michalak took the
ball from fullback Damien Traille to race 40m to send second
five-eighths Yannick Jauzion in for a try with halfback Jean-Baptiste
Elissalde's conversion giving France a 20-18 lead.
Then Evans was forced to leave the field of play injured with Luke McAlister moving to first five-eighths, Mils Muliaina to second five-eighths and Isaia Toeava coming on at centre.
France
stuck to its kicking game throughout the first half, but it lacked the
accuracy, precision and chasing game to seriously embarrass the New
Zealanders, who either kicked the ball back downfield or ran it back to
put plenty of pressure on the French defences.
It was tedious at
times, but during the first half at least did not look to provide any
discomfort for the All Blacks who further troubled the French by
stealing several of their lineout throws, largely through lock Ali Williams.
Two McAlister breaks set up the first try to the All Blacks and scored the first himself after 16 minutes.
He
passed to his right after scything through into the French 22m area,
but didn't see McCaw unmarked on his right. The ball was moved from the
ruck when halfback Byron Kelleher went to ground but Williams was out in the corner when diving for the try.
From the lineout, the French kicked to touch and wing Sitiveni Sivivatu threw a quick throw-in which fullback Leon MacDonald and brought up for the ruck. First five-eighths Dan Carter then ran and fed McAlister into another gap as he ran the perfect line.
This time he found flanker Jerry Collins
in support and then stayed with him to take his pass and drive over for
the try which Carter converted to give New Zealand a 10-0 lead.
The
French had earlier lost blindside flanker Serge Betsen when he seemed
to take a blow to the head after trying to tackle Rokocoko in the
fourth minute.
McAlister was sin-binned for obstruction five
minutes into the second half when the French kicked through to the All
Blacks line. Beauxis landed the penalty goal.
The All Blacks
went back onto attack from the restart and launched a driving assault
on the French line but the play broke down when a penalty was conceded.
New
Zealand regained the ball and after Carter attempted a long range
dropped goal attempt the French performed the quick 22m restart the All
Blacks had been hinting at throughout the first half.
The French
wave grew in intensity and finally after fullback Damien Traille looked
to have blown a chance with a three-on-one situation, the French came
back and it was flanker Thierry Dusautoir who scored after 53 minutes
with Beauxis adding the conversion.
Jauzion's try broke the
hearts of New Zealand and while the All Blacks threw a wave of
concerted pressure at the French in the dying stages, they couldn't get
through.
New Zealand 18 (Luke McAlister, Rodney So'oialo tries; Daniel Carter con, 2 pen)
France 20 (Thierry Dasautoir, Yannick Jauzion tries; Lionel Beauxis con, 2 pen; Jean-Baptiste Elissalde con).
HT: 3-13
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