Australia and New Zealand have placed on an epic present within the first half of their semi-final showdown on the Rugby League World Cup.
New Zealand leads 14-10 at half time.
The match exploded early after New Zealand scored the opening strive on the again of a freakish go by Roosters star Joey Manu.
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Nevertheless, that second of magic was trumped just some minutes later when Josh Addo-Carr scored “one of many nice rugby league tries”, based on Fox League commentator Andrew Voss.
Addo-Carr left some commentators shocked as he latched onto a pin-point kick from Ben Hunt whereas exhibiting off some mind-blowing velocity to attain within the fifteenth minute.
Addo-Carr’s strive was his twelfth strive of the match, equalling the report for many scored at a single Rugby League World Cup. Valentine Holmes held the report by scoring 12 tries on the 2017 World Cup.
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Addo-Carr’s twelfth strive was probably the most particular of the lot.
He sprinted virtually 40m whereas Hunt’s kick was within the air and his velocity appeared to unsettle Kiwi winger Jordan Rapana, who let the ball float over him and into the Bulldogs speedster’s palms.
“That’s breathtaking,” Andrew Voss mentioned.
“What have we simply witnessed?”
Australia’s second strive got here from a pleasant piece of labor by Jack Wighton who managed to toss out an excellent offload to Holmes close to the strive line.
Although New Zealand didn’t want any extra motivation, match organisers gave it to them anyway.
The Kiwis have been such outsiders for the semi-final that Rugby League World Cup organisers booked the New Zealand group’s flight residence — for the day after the semi-final.
It’s a transfer which has shocked the New Zealand facet, who was pushed all the best way towards Fiji within the quarterfinal final week.
