Italy-All Blacks 9-47, National team ko with honor

Italy defeated 47-9 by the All Blacks in the test match played at the Olympic stadium in Rome. The Azzurri closed with a deficit of 38 points, a small step forward compared to the average of -46 collected in the last precedents against New Zealand. The national team of the new coach Kieran Crowley harnesses the opponents for almost half an hour before collecting 3 tries in sequence: a try by Christie and two by Coles, all transformed by Mo’Unga, split the game in two. Italy erases the zero from the scoreboard with 2 kicks from Garbisi. All Blacks still in the goal at 63 ‘, the third from Coles with transformation of the usual Mo’Unga. The New Zealanders accelerate again shortly after, at 68 ‘the fifth all black goal, by Aumua, still Mo’Unga to transform with precision as a surgeon, at 71’ Sotutu goes to goal and consequent transformation of Mo’Unga. Hooker Aumua still in goal in the 75th minute and this time Mo’Unga does not convert. The game ends here, to the applause of the nearly 30,000 at the Olimpico.