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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Lee Calvert

Scotland 17-25 New Zealand: Autumn Nations Series rugby union – as it happened

New Zealand's Damian McKenzie scores their side's third try.
New Zealand's Damian McKenzie scores their side's third try. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

Lee has jumped across to cover England v Fiji, so I’ll point you in his direction before closing this blog down. Ta-ra.

Michael Aylwin's match report

A 33rd attempt, a 31st defeat and crucially still no win for Scotland against the All Blacks. And so the search will go on. Let us not resort to that familiar lament, if Scotland could not win it here, will they ever. It is true, they had as gilt-edged a chance as they ever have, New Zealand forced to play a total of half an hour a man down, having been shown three yellow cards. It is true, Scotland showed remarkable spirit to recover from 17-0 down at the break to level on the hour. But the All Blacks remain deadly, deadlier than Scotland.

This Scotland team is deadly too, but it is a question of deadliness when it matters. That is where they continue to come up short. New Zealand wrote the manual – and did that a long time ago.

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