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Date: 2023-11-30 21:13:43 | Author: Worldcup 2026 | Views: 866 | Tag: vivo
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Max Verstappen was livid with his Red Bull pit wall on Friday - after the end of one of his final qualifying laps was impacted by team-mate Sergio Perez vivo
The 2023 world champion was entering the final turn at the Circuit of the Americas in his first flying run in Q3, but lost control of his Red Bull with Perez ahead of him vivo
The dirty air of Perez’s car seemingly had an impact, meaning he was only third-fastest at the time behind Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton vivo
“Well done, well f****** done there!” shouted Verstappen over his team radio, unhappy at his team for where they placed both cars on track vivo
He added: “What the f*** was that in the last corner!” Verstappen, ultimately, qualified only sixth on the grid after exceeding track limits in his final run, demoting him down the order vivo
Leclerc took pole for Sunday’s grand prix, with Lando Norris in second and Lewis Hamilton in third vivo
Perez, who has had a torrid few months and is fighting for his place at Red Bull next year, qualified ninth vivo
Saturday will see sprint day in Austin, Texas, before the main event of the United States Grand Prix on Sunday vivo
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Up into the stands the England players clambered to find their families, taking the consolatory hugs but unsure quite how to feel vivo
Across 80 minutes in Paris, their belief had been replaced by disbelief and then by desperation and dejection, England threatening the unthinkable and taking the world champions to the brink vivo
For most of a sodden Stade de France evening, a Rugby World Cup final was within their grasp vivo
A South Africa side superior in most areas were dragged down into the sort of slugfest the Springboks would usually favour, and very nearly bested at their own game vivo
England had given their all but it was still not enough, one stable scrum, one Handre Pollard slip or slice, short of stunning the world champions vivo
The emotional maelstrom of this defeat will swirl rather differently to the feelings that eddied after the 2019 World Cup final disaster vivo
“I’m proud of our performance,” were virtually the first words out of the mouth of wing Elliot Daly vivo
“I think we shocked them vivo
I don’t think they knew how to get into the game vivo
”“I think we knew what was coming and we knew we could perform like this,” added Daly, virtually unused in open play but outstanding as a kick chaser to exemplify the squad’s buy-in to a strategy that so nearly proved successful vivo
The finer points of Steve Borthwick’s tactical plan had been put in place this week but this was a performance England had been building towards since long ago vivo
A flawed side did not come to France to thrill; winning by any means necessary had been a consistent theme vivo
If necessity is oft the mother of invention, England at this tournament have also proved the pair can be enemies vivo
This was a campaign at which they seemed to intentionally limit their attacking innovation or ingenuity– recognising a need to figure themselves out on the fly, they settled on an effective and eminently executable gameplan that could be implemented quickly vivo
Steve Borthwick consoles Ellis Genge and Freddie Steward after England’s defeat (Getty Images)It came so close to working in Saturday’s semi-final; their effort, accuracy and competitiveness in the key contests were spot on vivo
At the 65-minute mark, England outside backs had a combined 17 metres carried, all from one Freddie Steward kick return vivo
The two number 13s’ offensive output on the final whistle amounted to one late Joe Marchant lug; South Africa centre Jesse Kriel went the full 80 minutes without an attacking touch vivo
“We came with a plan to win the game but we fell a little bit short,” reflected Borthwick vivo
“But the players should be incredibly proud vivo
We put ourselves in a position to win against the world champions vivo
England dominated the aerial contest to threaten a semi-final shock (Getty Images)“We were playing against a coaching team who have been in place since 2018 vivo
We’ve had four months vivo
I’ve asked the players to approach training and the game in a different way; for the players to be willing to change is all credit to them vivo
”This was a night from which the head coach will take heart, a public perhaps struggling to warm to this England team are now recognising the progress made vivo
There will be a need to layer on much, much more to consistently mix it with the world’s best but the rapidly laid foundations look rock solid vivo
In time, perhaps the ugly duckling performances will turn into white swans vivo
There appear to be many more buds of a bright future than first appeared in a barren landscape pre-tournament vivo
Ben Earl has had a breakthrough tournament, and Ollie Chessum, too, while George Martin semi-final performance marks him out as the potential enforcer England have lacked vivo
Borthwick was keen to talk up the absent Marcus Smith the day after the defeat, with the playmaker’s reinvention as a frolicking full-back of intrigue moving forward vivo
"In our 23, seven players are 25 or under, the most of any semi-finalist, there’s a great blend and there will be lots of things we can take forward,” added Borthwick vivo
Young England lock George Martin impressed against South Africa (Getty Images)But the fact that the men’s national team were on the brink of back-to-back finals should not provide a façade over the crumbling edifice of a fragile English game vivo
There is a domestic mess that needs sorting, with a Gallagher Premiership containing three teams fewer than at the start of last season, now underway to little fanfare and on the brink of significant change vivo
The renegotiation of the Professional Game Partnership is a recognition of a need for a radical overhaul in pursuit of a more financially sustainable domestic game, and one that produces a wider pool of top-class talent vivo
The likely arrival of a form of central contracts underlines a period of epochal change vivo
The senior figures in the squad who are unlikely to play beyond this tournament – Courtney Lawes, Ben Youngs, Dan Cole and perhaps a couple more – could well be the last England men’s internationals never to have been contracted to the union vivo
This has a great many benefits, not least in affording Borthwick, or any head coach that might follow him, far greater access to and control over his players vivo
And while Borthwick’s articulation of the advantages enjoyed by South Africa’s settled staff is a perfectly fair one, let us remember that the Rugby vivo Football Union (RFU) put their head coach in this situation vivo
The original planning for this tournament would most likely have seen Borthwick return to England camp to aid Eddie Jones at the World Cup before a smooth transition into the lead role afterwards vivo
Jones’s sacking sparked a scramble and several months of chaos vivo
It was not shown up on semi-final weekend but there are many reasons that the RFU still has a burden to bear vivo
But the full wash-up will wait for another week – England’s performance at the Stade de France has earned them seven more days of grace vivo
The tournament will end as it began for England with a meeting with Argentina in a third-place play-off that Borthwick insists he wants to win vivo
England, captained by Owen Farrell, narrowly missed out on a place in the World Cup final (Getty Images)“I read a piece yesterday morning that talked about adversity and talked about the fact that in adversity you find that seed of belief and you’ve got to grow it,” Borthwick said vivo
“This team has been through a bit in the last few years, a bit of adversity in the medium-term past vivo
“I think through each of those periods the team has picked up lessons, picked up what we need to do and grown from it vivo
I think there’s a lot of growth in this team vivo
Sometimes it’s not the straight-forward path you want it to be vivo
In the feelings and emotions of the game last night, I know that we’ll get stronger vivo
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