In the Rugby Champion Match Argentina beats Australia 48-17

 By: Zukhanye Qabe

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Sport has always been a way of bringing people together. Yes, people are brought together, different races, colours and some differ because of the economy class.

Rugby is recognised as one of the dangerous sports, but its’ still played. It is a full contact sport with a relatively high overall risk of injury and small specific risk of fatal and catastrophic spinal injury. The sport requires and involves two teams, each with fifteen players.

The game consists of two 40-minute halves. In real time can be completed around 100-120 minutes.

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Argentina hosted Australia in Mendoza on Saturday. This match was the first rugby Champion fixture in Argentina since 2019. It was also a first home fixture for Los Pumas against the Wallabies since 2018. Argentina scored two tries in the first six minutes and went to beat Australia 48-17 on Saturday, posting its’ largest-ever win over the Wallabies and moving atop the Rugby Championship after two rounds.

Flyhalf James O’Connor converted and kicked a penalty to reduce Argentina’s lead to four points at 14-10. He then appeared to have scored a go-ahead try for the Wallabies in the 20th minute after an exchange of passes with Petaia. Afterall their try was not allowed when the referee determined Slipper had up-ended Pumas backrower Pablo Matera at the preceding breakdown.

A man of the match was named after Gallo scored his second try in 1hr3min.

“We’re disappointed,” Slipper said.

“Off the back of a good performance last weekend we really wanted to back it up. We dropped our standards today. I thought the Argentinians were really good and got momentum with the crowd behind them. They’re a tough team to play catch-up footy against,” Australia head coach Dave Rennie agreed.

“Massive disappointment, that’s not good enough,” Rennie said. “We conceded four tries with kicks in behind us and got dominated in the collision area. We created plenty of opportunities, but we have to be patient, we just weren’t clinical enough,” he added.

Went around the community of Soshanguve and asked around, was the match fair or not.

The audio linked below is the responses from the rugby fans, pouring their hearts.

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As much as the match brought people together, for the good match. Twitter users were left fuming, sharing how bad the commentator was throughout the match.