On a night of celebration otherwise, the All Blacks did lose first-choice tighthead Tyrel Lomax to a knee injury early on.
NEW ZEALAND CANTERED to the bonus-point victory they needed to secure qualification for the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals with an 11-try, 73-0 thrashing of Uruguay on Thursday.
But following similar thrashings of Namibia and Italy, this took their tally to 36 tries and 240 points in their last three matches since their opening pool defeat to France. Uruguay initially played with the same effervescence as in valiant defeats to France and Italy and thought they had taken the lead when Manuel Ardao dived over in the corner on 13 minutes.
Fly-half Mo’unga converted and then soon ran in a second try, with both coming from five-metre scrums as the All Blacks machine started to purr.
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