{"id":22476,"date":"2013-09-07T14:11:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T12:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/all-blacks-beat-argentina-in-rugby-championship-match\/"},"modified":"2013-09-07T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T12:11:48","slug":"all-blacks-beat-argentina-in-rugby-championship-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/all-blacks-beat-argentina-in-rugby-championship-match\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks beat Argentina in Rugby Championship match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=15904\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15904\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15904 \" alt=\"Kieran Read threw a wonderful ball to set up the All Blacks' first try. Photo: AAP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/98e92_235963-kieran-read-600x337.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kieran Read threw a wonderful ball to set up the All Blacks\u2019 first try. Photo: AAP<\/p>\n<p>The All Blacks overcame difficult conditions and combative opponents to maintain their unbeaten record in The Rugby Championship with a 28-13 win over Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>They scored three tries to one in Hamilton on Saturday night, with halfback Aaron Smith getting a double.<\/p>\n<p>However, victory came at a cost for the All Blacks, with skipper Richie McCaw limping off with a knee injury in the 60th minute of his 119th Test.<\/p>\n<p>Rain arrived early in the first half and stayed, making conditions slippery and there were numerous handling errors by both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina showed plenty of spirit, their first scrum a statement of intent with a big shove.<\/p>\n<p>But they were hurt by hooker Eusebio Guinazu\u2019s first-half sin-binning for breakdown infringements and by lineout problems that resulted in them losing a number of their throws.<\/p>\n<p>All Blacks No.8 Kieran Reid produced another high work-rate performance, and he had a direct hand in two of his side\u2019s tries.<\/p>\n<p>It was Argentina who struck first, taking a shock lead in the fifth minute. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Herald Sun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Rugby Championship news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/rugby-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/9d534_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kieran Read threw a wonderful ball to set up the All Blacks\u2019 first try. Photo: AAP The All Blacks overcame difficult conditions and combative opponents to maintain their unbeaten record in The Rugby Championship with a 28-13 win over Argentina. They scored three tries to one in Hamilton on Saturday night, with halfback Aaron Smith [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/22476","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=22476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}