Can you believe it? A rugby legend can't. 🤦♂️ The Wallabies would have led Argentina if not for this tackle. 9WWOS
Slipper also questioned the penalty, suggesting Matera hadn't supported his own weight and had landed on a Wallabies player.
"It's the fact that he's gone over, he's gone horizontal, which is a penalty," said referee Karl Dickson. "You can't flip him over in a ruck. The first player has cleared their leg, lifting the leg, and you've flipped him over.""No, this is absurd," he said. "Slipper has only got one target there or one opportunity to clean out Matera who is wrapping himself around the ball carrier, by the way, which is illegal, and he's cleaned him out the only way he can. This is an absolute absurdity."At halftime, Argentina led 26-10 after tries in the 24th and 32nd minute to Jerónimo de la Fuente and Juan Martín González respectively.
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