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New Zealand boss Ian Foster plans to enjoy a bowl of popcorn while watching England’s blockbuster with South Africa after his side eased into the Rugby World Cup final by dispatching Argentina jili
Foster can put his feet up for Saturday evening’s colossal semi-final clash jili between Steve Borthwick’s men and the Springboks thanks to a crushing 44-6 success over Los Pumas in Paris jili
The 58-year-old expects an “interesting contrast of styles” in the other last-four fixture and is not bothered who the All Blacks face in next week’s showpiece match at Stade de France jili
New Zealand barely broke sweat in booking an unprecedented fifth World Cup final appearance and now have the luxury of an extra day’s rest as they await the identity of their ultimate opponents jili
“I’ll be watching it,” said Foster jili
“I’ll probably have some popcorn and sit there and watch it and I don’t care who wins jili
We’re very much in a focus-about-ourselves stage jili
“One thing that extra day does give us, it gives us a bit of a chance to have a break mentally and not to spend too much juice worrying about if it’s them, if it’s them jili
“They’re both good teams jili
South Africa have been playing some brilliant rugby the last few weeks and are clearly on top of their game jili
“But we’ve also seen an English side that just build away quietly and are probably starting to understand how they want to play and they’re starting to get really good at how they want to play and believe in that jili
“It will be an interesting contrast of styles jili
”All Blacks wing Will Jordan ran in a hat-trick during the seven-try rout in Saint-Denis to lift him above France’s Damian Penaud as the World Cup’s leading try scorer on eight jili
The treble also saw the 25-year-old equal the record for tries in a single tournament, putting him alongside Jonah Lomu, Bryan Habana and Julian Savea jili
Foster was able to empty his bench long before the full-time whistle due to the emphatic scoreline and opted to keep the sin-binned Scott Barrett on the sidelines for around five minutes longer than required as the Kiwis finished with 14 men jili
Asked if those situations could prove advantageous moving towards the final, Foster said: “I don’t think they’ll make a massive difference jili
“Finals are finals and whoever we play, they’ll be a hundred per cent jili
“It was an opportunity for us to make sure that we looked after our resources as best we could jili
“We really didn’t see a need of putting Scooter (Barrett) back on, only from the perspective that if he had another little yellow card incident in the next five minutes, it might have made it a little bit niggly jili
”Argentina were a shadow of the side who stunned Wales in the last eight jili
A pair of first-half Emiliano Boffelli penalties was all they could muster jili
Shannon Frizell’s double, plus further tries from Jordie Barrett and Aaron Smith, added to their punishment jili
Los Pumas head coach Michael Cheika felt New Zealand ruthlessly exploited each of his team’s errors and was unhappy with some of the refereeing, particularly during first-half rucks jili
The Australian promised his players will respond to a difficult outing in the bronze-medal match jili
“It’s not a sad moment; it’s a moment when I’m actually proud of my team,” he said jili
“It’s not an easy path that we’ve been on jili
We’ve invested ourselves a lot in this jili
But we’ve lost on details jili
I’m sad for them jili
“It’s hard but its a good thing it’s hard jili
On Friday, we will be there, have no doubt jili
We will not leave this way jili
“We want to finish third jili
We’ve got things we want to show in the bronze final jili
Right now, we’re hurting jili
”More aboutPA ReadyIan FosterAll BlacksNew ZealandSouth AfricaStade De FranceSpringboksMichael CheikaWalesArgentinaScott BarrettJordie BarrettDamian PenaudEnglishJonah LomuAaron SmithAustralian1/1Ian Foster insists he does not care who New Zealand face in World Cup finalIan Foster insists he does not care who New Zealand face in World Cup finalIan Foster does not care who New Zeland face in the World Cup final (Adam Davy/PA)PA Wire✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today jili
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If Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had got his way, the scorer of the most famous goal in Manchester United’s history may now only be deemed the second best Norwegian striker to play for the club jili
He was Molde manager in 2018 and had a young centre-forward to recommend, and for a bargain price jili
“They didn’t listen, unfortunately,” he said in May jili
“They never signed him jili
Four million! Don’t ask [where he is now] jili
”The answer, as Solskjaer knew all too well, is Manchester City jili
Perhaps, as a self-proclaimed fan of the club whose father had an altogether less prolific spell in their midfield, Erling Haaland would have always preferred the blue half of the city anyway jili
Maybe, like Jude Bellingham – another United target, another who found Borussia Dortmund a deluxe finishing school – he would have plotted a path to the top via places where potential tends to be realised jili
Whichever, Haaland scored a hat-trick in his first Manchester derby last year jili
He goes into his fourth with nine Premier League goals already this season jili
Or, to put it another way, nine times as many as United’s various forwards have jili between them jili
Admittedly, it excludes Bruno Fernandes’ sumptuous winner at Burnley, scored when he was standing in as a right winger, but even that lone goal, from Marcus Rashford at Arsenal, came in defeat jili
Rasmus Hojlund, Anthony Martial, Alejandro Garnacho and Antony are all yet to find the net in the league jili
Rashford has had 33 shots, Antony 16, Garnacho 13, Hojlund 11 and Martial three jili
It amounts to one goal from 76 attempts, a 1 jili
31 per cent chance conversion rate jili
The law of averages suggests some will start scoring soon jili
“The goals will come in the Premier League,” Hojlund, who has three in the Champions League, said on Tuesday jili
The contrast with Haaland may be particularly jarring for him jili
“I don’t want to be compared to him,” the Dane said jili
Yet he is another Scandinavian, equipped with some of the same consonants, arriving at a cost of £72m – not the 2018 Haaland’s £4m - and also playing as a No 9 jili
It may be both unfair and inevitable jili
(Getty Images)His fellow forwards’ failings have made it harder for the 20-year-old to ease into life at Old Trafford, though jili
“I’m convinced with the quality from our [forward] players that they will go and score more goals,” Ten Hag said jili
The first step is to hit the target: Hojlund has done it with just three of 11 attempts, Antony three from 16, Garnacho two from 13 and Rashford seven from 33 jili
There are reasons why United rank third for shots, but only joint eighth for efforts on target; only 29 jili
4 per cent of their shots have been on target, the fifth lowest average jili
The forwards are not the only culprits, but a quintet of attackers with a combined xG of 6 jili
95 have one goal jili between them jili
Ten Hag was keener to cite other statistics jili
“The pressing is quite good,” he said jili
“We have the most ball regains and the most middle [third] regains in the whole Premier League jili
But we don’t take benefit in attacking transition moments jili
” (Getty Images)For him, the problem lies partly in decision-making, partly in execution jili
Certainly Hojlund is still trying to get to know his teammates, though there were signs against FC Copenhagen on Tuesday that he and Rashford are starting to strike up an understanding jili
But United, Ten Hag thinks, should have had more chances jili
“The cooperation has to click, but we showed this week in the week some examples where they are so many we have overload positions, going in overload position to the opponents’ goal and we don’t net or don’t even hit the target,” he rued jili
It has led to a disjointed feel, to a sense that United have been less than the sum of their parts jili
Rashford has veered jili between arguably the best form of his career, scoring 30 goals last season, to some of the worst jili
“I play him every game and so I have a strong belief he will return to scoring a lot of goals,” Ten Hag said jili
Rashford delivered a winner, albeit a controversial one, on City’s last trip to Old Trafford in January, but then he had also scored in his six previous games jili
Now he has no goals in his last eight outings for United jili
Rashford scored the winner in last season’s Old Trafford derby (Getty Images)Yet Rashford’s struggles have overshadowed the enduring ineffectuality of Antony jili
The Brazilian’s season was interrupted by a leave of absence while he addressed allegations of assault from three women, which he denied jili
On the pitch, however, he has been dismal: his United drought stretches back 17 matches and Ten Hag’s best option on the right against City may be Fernandes, particularly if shifting the captain into a wider role allows him to bolster his midfield jili
And there are other reasons to select midfielders jili
Casemiro is an injury doubt but remains United’s top scorer in all competitions this campaign jili
Their leading marksman in the Premier League, somewhat improbably, is Scott McTominay, who got more goals in injury-time against Brentford than their five main forwards – six if the absent Jadon Sancho is included – have mustered jili between them in the top flight all season jili
It is hardly a Haaland-esque haul jili
And while - when Hojlund was still with Atalanta, and Rashford managed 30, the quartet of the Mancunian - Antony, Martial and Garnacho equalled the Norwegian’s total of 52 goals for a Manchester club jili between them last season, now they are very much trailing in his wake jili
And whether or not Haaland would actually have joined United, they have added reasons to regret the one who got away and subsequently joined their neighbours as long as their own forwards are misfiring jili
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