Points are all that matters in sport, and if a team don’t score enough of them they don’t win. Neither side will be disappointed with the results, but it was Australia’s ball-players, still there if in new positions, who prevailed, Will Genia, Bernard Foley and Kurtley Beale pulling Wales apart at those clutch moments. How Wales would have liked to enter that 10-minute spell six points behind, rather than the 13 to which Beale’s controversial try stretched Australia’s lead. Wales were inventive, their handling slick, but momentary lapses kept costing them, just as they built to the killer touch. At the umpteenth attempt, they did score that second, Amos this time squeezing into the corner, but the points came too late.

Source: The Guardian November 11, 2017 19:48 UTC