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The All Blacks win their scrum and send it wide to Bridge who is waiting on the touchline
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Ireland win the lineout but Furlong knocks the ball on
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New Zealand are one of three teams to reach the knockout stages at all nine World Cups. The other two are Australia and France.
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The ball travels back and forth and Barrett marks it with a kick that travels out for touch. Ireland receive a lineout just inside their half
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Sexton fails to find touch and New Zealand play on
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Ireland receive a penalty for New Zealand taking a man out
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Sexton restarts and Mounga clears it downfield with Ireland being able to attack on the halfway
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Aaron Smith is the most-capped scrum-half to ever play for New Zealand. Has been capped 90 times, all playing at scrum-half. Only 9 times has he been on the losing side.
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New Zealand show patience and do what they do best. Putting pressure on the Ireland defence waiting for a gap to form and as it does, Smith takes advantage as he powers through and over the line to get the first try of this quarter-final!
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New Zealand now five metres out