{"id":8635,"date":"2024-07-08T10:20:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/involvement.co.ke\/?p=8635"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:20:37","slug":"all-blacks-prevail-over-three-lions-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2024\/07\/08\/all-blacks-prevail-over-three-lions-test\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks Prevail over Three Lions&#8217; Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Ben Ayuko<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>{<\/strong><em>image by AP<\/em><strong>}<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The All Blacks<\/strong> narrowly got one over <strong>the Three Lions<\/strong> in test match over the weekend. It was a close affair as both teams showed up fully intent on taking the game to their opponent.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand took the lead after winger, <strong>Sevu Reece<\/strong>, ran onto a cross kick by fly half <strong>Damien McKenzie<\/strong> and carried over the England try line. <em>McKenzie&#8217;s<\/em> failure to convert the try proved vital as England then took the lead after <strong>Marcus Smith<\/strong> converted a <strong>Maro Itoje<\/strong> try, bundling over the tryline with sheer force and determination. New Zealand took back the lead with a try from Number 8, <strong>Ardie Savea<\/strong>, making an overlapping run onto a pass from fullback, <strong>Stephen Perofeta<\/strong>, who did well to sidestep a challenge and create the space to run into. Right on the stroke of halftime, England converted a penalty to level the score at 10-10 going into the break.<\/p>\n<p>The second half started with a bang as merely 5 or so minutes after the break England took the lead with a try from <strong>Immanuel Feyi-Waboso<\/strong>. He soared over the tryline after England forced New Zealand to commit numbers to one side of the pitch, leaving an overlap on the other side. Quick interplay capped off with a good pass wide by Marcus Smith to the winger made it 15-10 to England, <em>Smith<\/em> failing to convert the try.<\/p>\n<p>It was a much more calculated affair after that as both teams were weary of giving away any cheap concessions. <em>Damien McKenzie<\/em> made up for his first half conversion woes by converting 2 penalties to give New Zealand back the lead. It was a nervy affair, with England throwing the kitchen sink at New Zealand in a bid to try and get the final word, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand held on to secure a 16-15 victory after a tough test match in front of their home crowd at the Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ben Ayuko {image by AP} The All Blacks narrowly got one over the Three Lions in test match over the weekend. It was a close affair as both teams showed up fully intent on taking the game to their opponent. New Zealand took the lead after winger, Sevu Reece, ran onto a cross kick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}