Argentina vs New Zealand Top Performers

New Zealand proved to have too much fire power for Argentina and completly dominated the first Rugby World Cup Semi-Final. Despite their being many stand out players, here are 5 players who played particulary well in the encounter at The Stade de France.

Aaron Smith 

Aaron Smith had another sensational game for the All Blacks, he controlled the rhythm and brought fast tempo to the All Blacks attack. He scored a great solo effort try after a massive scrum from the New Zealand pack of forwards which opened up space around the fringes of the scrum.

Metres: 32

D. Beaten 2

Breaks: 1

Tries: 1

Will Jordan

Will Jordan put on a specticle for New Zealand by scoring a hatrick in a Rugby World Cup Semi-Final. He finished off superb attack from the All Blacks making 3 line breaks and beating 3 defenders a long with a try of the tournement contender after making a linebreak and chiping the ball over Los Pumas full back to score his third try in style.

Metres: 78

D. Beaten 3

Breaks: 3

Tries: 3

Richie Mo'unga

Richie Mo'unga displayed his class once agian in a massive match for the Kiwi's. The ex Crusaders fly-half was the pivot in the New Zealand attack allowing them to unlock the Los Pumas defence with relative ease to put a big score on Argentina.

Metres: 95

D. Beaten: 7

Breaks: 2

Offloads: 2

Thomas Gallo

Despite being on the losing side, the Los Pumas prop who had an outstanding tournemnt and once again put in a top class perfromace for Argentina. He had an extremely high workrate for a front rower, beating 4 defenders in 5 carries and making 19 tackles.

Metres: 20

D. Beaten: 4

Carries: 5

Tackles: 19

Mark Telea

After missing out last week due to discplinary reasons, Telea made up for his absence in a high quality performance providng another dynamic to the All Blacks X factor on attack. He was constantly looking to get involved and carried off first phase getting lots of metres for New Zealand whle also beating many defenders.

Metres: 101

Breaks: 2

D. Beaten: 14

Carries: 13

Final Score: Argentina 6 - 44 New Zealand