{"id":14664,"date":"2012-09-15T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T14:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-1-rugby-australia-rally-to-deny-argentina-first-win\/"},"modified":"2012-09-15T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T14:29:24","slug":"update-1-rugby-australia-rally-to-deny-argentina-first-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-rugby-australia-rally-to-deny-argentina-first-win\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Rugby-Australia rally to deny Argentina first win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds detail, quotes)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Wallabies come back from 13 points down<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Pumas miss out on maiden victory<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>GOLD COAST, Australia, Sept 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia needed tries from Pat McCabe and Digby Ioane in the last quarter to overturn a 13-point deficit and edge Argentina 23-19 in a dramatic Rugby Championship encounter at Skilled Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Pumas looked to be on their way to a first victory in their maiden season in the southern hemisphere&#8217;s international championship after tries from Tomas Leonardi and Julio Farias Cabello inside two minutes early in the second half.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The error-prone Wallabies, however, dug deep and battled back with centre McCabe finally breaching the Argentine defence on the hour mark and winger Ioane following suit after a break from scrumhalf Nick Phipps nine minutes later.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Credit to them, they really put us under a lot of pressure at 19-6 but there is a great deal of courage and commitment to come back &#8230; and finish so strongly,&#8221; skipper Nathan Sharpe said in a pitchside interview.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not happy with the close game but there was some good commitment from the guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The victory put the Wallabies second in the championship standings with eight points from four matches behind runaway leaders and world champions New Zealand, who have secured 16 points after winning all four of their matches.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds detail, quotes) * Wallabies come back from 13 points down * Pumas miss out on maiden victory GOLD COAST, Australia, Sept 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia needed tries from Pat McCabe and Digby Ioane in the last quarter to overturn a 13-point deficit and edge Argentina 23-19 in a dramatic Rugby Championship encounter at Skilled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}