SYDNEY : Argentina coach Michael Cheika was not getting carried away with the victory over the Wallabies on Saturday and said he would have been happy even if the Pumas had not scored a late try to win the Rugby Championship test. The Australian has been at pains to stress that his squad is at an earlier
SYDNEY : Argentina coach Michael Cheika was not getting carried away with the victory over the Wallabies on Saturday and said he would have been happy even if the Pumas had not scored a late try to win the Rugby Championship test.
After a humbling at home by All Blacks last week, however, he saw enough at Parramatta Stadium to suggest the Argentines were on the right path."It's like even if we'd gone down to the end, I would have been happy with the improvements. I thought we made some good improvements, although we've still got a lot more to improve on."
"We were able to find a way to win even though we weren't playing our best," he added."We've still got a lot of growing to do for where we gotta go the way they were able to find a way to do it, not just at the end, right through the game One area in which Cheika is looking to improve the side in his second year in charge is the attack and, although the Pumas wasted a fair few overlaps, he was happy with how that part of their game looked.
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