Ian Foster is very disappointed after England’s equaliser

The All Blacks have long kept alive their hopes of ending a somewhat hectic 2022 with a convincing victory over England on Saturday at Twickenham. But that was without counting XV de la Rose’s stunning comeback at the end of an unimaginable equalizer in the 70th minute of the match. We certainly very much understand the disappointment expressed by Ian Foster in a press conference, as we can read in L’Equipe.

We will definitely have two press conferences, the first in the first 70 minutes, and the second in the next 10 minutes. It was a great dramatic match, and to finish with this draw is really disappointing. For the first 70 minutes, for me, we played the rugby we wanted to produce. We did a great tour. (…) But all the credit goes to the English who managed to get back.

Beauden Barrett’s yellow card galvanized them, their performance in the last 10 minutes was incredible and we couldn’t stop them. But the tie ending is still very disappointing. I’m really proud of my players, and it shows all the progress we’ve made in the second half of the year. About Marcus Smith’s decision to take the ball out at the end of the game, I was surprised and I think in that case my team would have tried to play and score.

A barely disguised shovel against a young Harlequins player, whose decision not to lift at the end of the match was much criticized.