Sensational Carter and All Blacks give Scotland rugby lesson

New Zealand gave a lesson of rugby to Scotland to claim a 51-22 win at Murrayfield today.
Led by a sensational Dan Carter, the World Champions were almost perfect in executing the basics of the game to score six tries and give no chance to the Scottish.
They were caught cold to concede the opening try but once their put their foot down, they were too hot to handle for the home side who missed countless tackles.
The All Blacks was once again very simple but executed almost to perfection and, with their quality of ball handling and support, almost every line break resulted in tries.
Scotland were too passive in the first half and didn’t put the All Blacks under any sort of pressure whether it was in attack or defence but they addressed the issues at the break and really took it to them at the beginning of the game.
They even thought they could come back but they left too many chances begging with unforced errors inches away from the white wash.
The first 15 minutes of the second half were good and give them a good platform to work on before they host South Africa next Saturday but they found the hard way that Test rugby is about scoring at any given opportunity.
Flyer Tim Visser gave Murrayfield the start they were dreaming off when he found himself on Matt Scott’s shoulder, who intercepted an loose pass from Carter, to score the opening try after 12 minutes.
But New Zealand came back within minutes when Carter made a break inside the Scots’ 22 to find Israel Dagg in support.
The score was then 10-13 but the World Champions put their foot down and took the game away with three tries in eight minute just after the half hour mark.
The World Champions showed they are the best because the do the basics right. They found an overlap, attacked the gap, found support, took the tackle, recycle quickly, did the same again and scored walking following simple passing.
Wingers Julian Savea and Cory Jane went in in the corners before hooker Andrew Hore crossed the line from close range to take the score to 34-10 just before the break.
But in front of their fans, Scotland weren’t going to give up and had final push.
Matt Scott was held up in injury time but Scotland were awarded a penalty. They tapped and go and couple of phases later, tighthead Geoff Cross went over to reduce the deficit to 17-34 at the break.
Scotland came back with much more urgency at the breakdown to put the All Blacks under pressure and they eventually came back into the game when Mike Blair pounced on a loose ball inside the opposition 22 to send Visser over for his second try of the game on his Murrayfield debut and reduce the deficit to 12 points and half an hour to go.
It was time for Scotland to turn the screw on but couldn’t capitalise on very good position on at least three occasions.
Instead, the visitors made them pay for it when Savea collected a superb cross-field kick from Carter to leave Stuart Hogg for dead and race over from 40 metres.
They eventually went past the half century three minutes from with a last rally.
Carter rounded up his fantastic personal display by creating another try for Ben Smith and adding the conversion from the right touchline.
Relive all the action from the game here.
For Scotland
Tries: Visser 2, Cross
Conversion: Laidlaw 2
Penalties: Laidlaw
For New Zealand
Tries: Dagg, Savea 2, Jane, Hore, Smith
Conversions: Carter 6
Penalties: Carter 3
Sin bin: Thomson
Scotland: Hogg; Lamont, De Luca, Scott, Visser; Laidlaw, Blair; Grant, Ford, Cross; Gray, Hamilton; Strokosch, Rennie, Brown.
Replacements: Lawson, Jacobsen, Traynor, Kellock, Denton, Pyrgos, Jackson, Evans.
New Zealand: Dagg; Jane, Smith, Elison; Carter, Weepu; Crockett, Hore, O. Franks; Romano, Whitelock; Thomson, McCaw (capt.), Vito.
Replacements: Coles, Woodcock, B. Franks, Williams, Cane, Kerr-Barlow, Barrett, Nonu.
Referee: Jerome Garces (France)
Star man: Dan Carter – New Zealand
NICK VERDIER