{"id":19862,"date":"2024-07-15T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/england-tour-of-new-zealand-steve-borthwick-on-teams-narrow-defeats-by-all-blacks\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T15:24:25","slug":"england-tour-of-new-zealand-steve-borthwick-on-teams-narrow-defeats-by-all-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/england-tour-of-new-zealand-steve-borthwick-on-teams-narrow-defeats-by-all-blacks\/","title":{"rendered":"England tour of New Zealand: Steve Borthwick on team&#8217;s narrow defeats by All Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">An international season that started on 5 August in Cardiff ended for England on Saturday in Auckland with a feeling of deja vu in the air.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cnl0j997dejo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">in Dunedin a week earlier,<\/a> England had stayed in the fight admirably in the first half, rallying either side of the break to take control and threaten to pull off a historic win, before frustratingly fading in the final quarter as the All Blacks bench proved decisive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So how should England supporters view the 2-0 series defeat? A tour that showed Steve Borthwick\u2019s side are moving in the right direction? Or a huge missed opportunity?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cAbsolutely both,\u201d said skipper Jamie George, who led the group with distinction on his first tour as captain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England have played South Africa, Ireland and France over the past eight months, in addition to two games against New Zealand. The aggregate score against these top four sides in the world is 101-111, with one narrow win and four narrow defeats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe are definitely trending in the right direction,\u201d vice-captain Henry Slade said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe are pushing the top four sides now and getting better and better week by week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The challenge for England now is to get on the right side of these tussles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to revisit mistakes,\u201d reflected Borthwick on Sunday in downtown Auckland, shortly before starting the long journey home via Sydney and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIn each of those games, we\u2019ve been in a position late in the game in a leading position on the scoreboard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cj7d14vgnvmo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international season that started on 5 August in Cardiff ended for England on Saturday in Auckland with a feeling of deja vu in the air. Just like in Dunedin a week earlier, England had stayed in the fight admirably in the first half, rallying either side of the break to take control and threaten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19864,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19862\/revisions\/19864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}