Schmidt: We must up level for All Blacks

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER

IRELAND, by no means at their best, still showed enough quality when it mattered to account for Argentina but there will be plenty to work on this week as they prepare to tackle the All Blacks.
Any thought that this was just a warm-up before that encounter with New Zealand was soon dispelled with the Pumas in a physical but fairly disciplined mood, giving as good as they got in the first half although they found it tougher going after the break.
Influential fly-half Nicolas Sanchez was ticking over nicely and when he plays well Argentina tend to raise ...

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