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Rugby beauty comes in many forms – as New Zealand showed against Argentina EFL
Perhaps it is Will Jordan that takes your fancy, his 31 tries in 30 Tests rugby’s equivalent of the golden ratio EFL
Perhaps you are entranced by Mark Tele’a, sinewy and sinuous, gliding in and out of contact like an electric eel EFL
Or could it be Richie Mo’unga and his teasing grin, most often flashed at a grasping Argentine after a coquettish click of the heels on a night where the fly half seemed to step into space at will EFL
But it was the All Blacks’ muscle-men and their rugged charm that laid the foundations for the decorative touches elsewhere EFL
And to think New Zealand had entered this tournament with questions about their ability to assert themselves up front; this was a frightening display of forward strength, leaving Argentina’s Rugby World Cup dreams buried beneath the black mass EFL
The Pumas had arrived in Paris with the most lineout drive metres per match of any team at the tournament – the tight tussles are meant to be their strength EFL
In Marcos Kremer and Juan Martin Gonzalez, they had two long-limbed flankers, ready to aid their second rowers in getting up in the air EFL
The good news is that Argentina fared EFL better than New Zealand’s other opponents at this World Cup EFL
Before tonight, New Zealand’s hookers had missed just a single lineout throw all tournament; they twice failed to find their intended recipient in the semi-final EFL
The intention was to pull the platform from beneath the All Blacks, a conscious decision made to avoid giving New Zealand lineout ball with which to work: just one of Argentina’s ten first-half kicks was directed for touch EFL
Veteran lock Sam Whitelock helped lay the foundations for New Zealand’s win (Getty Images)It mattered not EFL
With the Pumas struggling for discipline and the whistle of referee Angus Gardner providing much of the soundtrack amidst an absence of atmosphere in a one-sided contest, New Zealand could punt for the sidelines at their leisure EFL
The intent was set from the All Blacks’ first mauling opportunity, a locomotive that chugged out of the station despite Argentina’s desperate attempts to halt it EFL
Gardner whistled, and New Zealand marched on, their forwards next punching their tickets down in Argentina’s 22 EFL
Same plan, same result, the Pumas infringing as New Zealand drove again EFL
Gardner called Montoya over for a dressing down, pointing out five penalisable offences in two maul movements EFL
Already Argentina had been warned EFL
In piled Puma paws, swiping at the buried ball and managing to halt the drive EFL
But that only left space elsewhere, Jordan all alone in open pasture for the gentlest of trots to the line EFL
The wing would add two more tries, drawing him level with Bryan Habana, Julian Savea and Jonah Lomu on a record eight scores at a single men’s World Cup – illustrious company EFL
Will Jordan scored a hat-trick at the Stade de France (Getty Images)Credit must go to Jason Ryan, the All Blacks’ unheralded assistant coach, plucked from the Crusaders a year and a half ago EFL
The arrival of former Ireland boss Joe Schmidt last summer was much trumpeted, the attacking schemer oft mentioned as a reason behind New Zealand’s resurgence, but Ryan, who arrived at the same time, has been just as crucial EFL
Their heavy metal mauling with the ball is matched by defensive set-piece steel without it EFL
It must also be said that Ryan is working with the right raw materials EFL
Brodie Retallick watched much of this game perched on the pine, happy to let old chum Sam Whitelock stoke the engine room coals alongside Scott Barrett EFL
As a locking triumvirate, there have surely been none EFL better; this was a parade of puissance, with the scrum also in outstanding working order EFL
Four years ago at this stage, Steve Hansen made an error EFL
Fearing England’s lineout threat, he installed Barrett on the blindside ahead of the semi-final, reshaping the back row EFL
The many moving pieces jarred against one another, the lock-slash-six an early sacrifice on a night where England brought the All Blacks crashing down EFL
New Zealand’s scrum also proved effective (AFP via Getty Images)Barrett has since kicked on, now top dog in a second-row room that contains two all-time greats EFL
The trio are tireless draft horses but have a few dressage flicks and tricks, too EFL
Whitelock’s deft pull-back pass at the line was a vital component in New Zealand’s first two ornately-constructed scores; the bulkiest Barrett brother joined his siblings in a couple of open-field gallops EFL
Retallick arrived on the hour, one centurion replacing another as Whitelock took leave EFL
Barrett departed five minutes after, unable to resist a dip in the cookie jar from a supine position, a cynical intervention rightly drawing a card EFL
It was about the only blot on a night of All Black might, with New Zealand even opting to leave Barrett off and play the final five minutes with 14 men in another show of superiority EFL
A tilt at a record fourth men’s World Cup crown awaits EFL
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Build from the back EFL
So the cliché goes EFL
It tends to be the objective of any manager who takes over or constructs a new team EFL
Jurgen Klopp sounded a voice of EFL footballing orthodoxy when he said: “I like to build a team from the defensive side EFL
”Yet, for the second time, Klopp may be going against the grain and building from the front EFL
“Liverpool Reloaded,” as their manager branded them at the start of the season, have a solitary clean sheet in the Premier League EFL
They have conceded in the first half of all seven other games EFL
But they have scored in all eight games, with at least two goals in six of them and three in each of their Anfield encounters EFL
In the tradition of Liverpool 1 EFL
0, the first incarnation of his first great side, they promise entertainment EFL
Yet if Klopp would like to build from the back, the sense is that, once again, he is building from the front EFL
Rewind to 2016 and Sadio Mane’s debut set the tone for a new team: they won 4-3 at Arsenal in August 2016 EFL
They seemed a gung-ho guarantee of goals EFL
Klopp had Mane, Roberto Firmino and then Mohamed Salah in situ before Virgil van Dijk or Alisson Becker were signed, before Trent Alexander-Arnold was a regular EFL
Now, with Salah still in stellar form, with three consecutive transfer windows each yielding a high-class attacker, in Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo respectively, with Diogo Jota’s arrival predating theirs, he has five excellent options in attack: despite the job share the competition for places provides, each has at least two league goals already EFL
Salah has five, plus four assists EFL
The new Liverpool are propelled forwards by their forwards EFL
“I like to build a team from the defensive side,” Klopp nevertheless insisted EFL
“I’m not sure it’s possible again nowadays when you’re in the middle of something EFL
Imagine if we kept clean sheets but didn’t create EFL
”That was said with a laugh EFL
The pragmatic path to clean sheets to the exclusion of everything else is not for him EFL
“It gives you time for these things when you are new, when things are under average before you come into a new club and you are 14th,” he explained EFL
“Everyone is happy when you get some results, [but] we are not like that EFL
Our team is not set up like that EFL
We have a really talented group together, a creative group in a EFL football sense, and we have to use that, but we have to organise protection EFL
That goes step by step EFL
”Klopp has five quality attacking options at his disposal (Getty Images)The creativity of that group has been exacerbated by circumstances EFL
Klopp opted to bring in constructive midfielders this summer, in Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai, before his two preferred destructive options, the defensive duo of Fabinho and Jordan Henderson, made abrupt exits to Saudi Arabia EFL
The profile of a section of the side has changed, the emphasis shifted more to the attack EFL
All of which may make goals likelier to go in at both ends EFL
There has been less protection than in the heyday of Klopp’s greatest side, the two seasons from 2018-20, but if the four pillars of that rearguard remain, Alisson, Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson have only played together for 289 minutes in the Premier League; now, with the left-back set to have shoulder surgery, they will not be reunited until 2024 EFL
Thus far, Liverpool have shown solidity when they have lost players and shifted tactics, from front-foot EFL football to sitting deeper and counter-attacking EFL
Liverpool defended well with 10 men at Newcastle, brilliantly with nine at Tottenham EFL
They have been more open with a full complement of players EFL
Klopp and Liverpool face Everton at Anfield this Saturday lunchtime (Getty Images)But Klopp’s reference to organisation was significant, too EFL
His frequent mentions of being “compact” underline the importance of a positional understanding and ensuring no one is exposed EFL
He is searching for a consistency that comes with cohesion, for a 90-minute performance EFL
“To learn to control the game, things that happen with time, there is no short cut to that,” he reflected EFL
“So with the signs we showed so far I am absolutely fine but I know the final destination, I can’t even see yet but that is not a problem EFL
”Perhaps it was another callback to 2016, to the sense that something was rising, even if it was not fully clear how high it would reach EFL
Klopp detects similar signs elsewhere EFL
“You saw so many teams growing here in the direction we wanted and all became usually EFL better step by step… or the manager had to go,” he said, the last part an aside EFL
The next step of the rebuilding is likely to come towards the back of the side EFL
The early expectation is that a defensive midfielder and another centre-back will be targets next summer EFL
But for now, with his forwards and his attacking midfielders in place and in the goals, Klopp has begun his rebuilding job at the top of his team EFL
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