2023-10-28 05:46:49
Something that for many is a value and for others a defect, is that in rugby the results are always a faithful reflection of what happened on the field. For those who love rugby, the result is then an act of justice, or something similar: whoever for some reason might not watch a match just needs to see the final result to get an idea of what happened on the playing field. He can’t know everything (sometimes not even those who saw it can know everything), but he can have a pretty good idea of what happened.
The score of 26-23 in favor of England speaks of that: of a tight and fair match, of a score that would have been missing anything to reverse it – or at least to tie it and go to overtime.
And yet, if we should say something to those who might not see the game, it is that the 26-23 score was not as fair as it seems. I mean it is, because it was that one, but a narrowly missed penalty with five minutes left in the game would have changed everything. Or maybe not. How to know? Journalists, so inclined to make predictions, this time should do the only thing appropriate in these cases: cover their faces with their hands and cry.
But if I did that I would exaggerate: The Pumas played well, not so much in the first half, but undoubtedly in the second. When the score was moving away in England’s favor they did not let their guard down for a moment. Not only did they not let their guard down: they raised it and hit and they didn’t stop hitting until they were close to tying it. That’s called fighting, and Los Pumas can be criticized for many things, except that they dedicate every atom of their bodies in pursuit of victory. Which sometimes happens.
Having achieved fourth place, from a certain perspective, is not so bad. It is true that they aspired to achieve, at least, third place in history in 2007, but that fourth place is indicative of something: The Pumas are among the best in the world, or at least they are capable of making life difficult for the best in the world. world. And that, let me say, is no small thing.
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