England were absolutely gutted when that drop-goal from George Ford didn't go over at the death, but they will take plenty of positives from this clash. Their line speed on defence was brutal, their discipline was excellent until those final couple of minutes, and their scrums were putting New Zealand under enormous pressure in the first 60 or so minutes. They need to convert all that into more points, but they will be revving to go when they come up against the Wallabies next weekend!

New Zealand will be relieved to have come away with this win after a bit of a wobble in that second half, but they have a tonne they will need to do before they face Ireland on Friday night. The handling, the lineouts, and, possibly most importantly, their discipline will be key areas Scott Robertson will want to focus on this week, because Ireland will punish them if they play like they did today.

England capitalised well on penalties conceded by the All Blacks, with Marcus Smith on point off the tee to keep England in touch with New Zealand on the scoreboard. They didn't really get themselves too close to the tryline, opting instead to take points on offer whenever they were in range in that first half when the Kiwi discipline slipped. It was in the second half before they got themselves over the chalk, and it was very much against the run of play as Smith intercepted a pass down on his own 22 to create that opportunity for the home side.

New Zealand's handling really left something to be desired today. While a couple of knocks can be attributed to some epic tackling from England, there were plenty of knocks that were just... unnecessary. Passing too quickly, passing in front of the support player, trying to offload when the better option would have been to take the contact and recycle the ball cleanly. Some of those knocks cost them some great opportunities to score points.

The set pieces were messy throughout the game. New Zealand conceded a couple of scrum penalties in the first half, but once the replacements came on they got the upper hand on the shove and won a couple back. The lineouts, however, were problematic throughout. A knock here and there in the air, but mostly the ball was thrown straight over the top of the jumper and resulted in loose ball that everyone scrambled to clean up at the back. The All Blacks scuppered more than a few opportunities with their poor lineout form, and gave England the opportunity to put them straight back under pressure.

England were excellent on defence throughout the match, with great line speed putting huge pressure on New Zealand and preventing the visitors from being able to get onto the front foot when they had ball in hand. Some absolutely brutal tackles from the Roses as well, forcing the All Blacks onto the back foot and forcing a couple of knocks as a result as well to break any momentum the visitors were able to build up.

It wasn't pretty, but New Zealand have done it! They had the lead through most of the first half and into the break, but it was England who came back hard early in the second half to hit the front and open up a bit of a lead on the scoreboard. But those last 13 minutes from the Kiwis were brutal. England went from having conceded just two penalties in the whole match to conceding back to back to back penalties in the final couple of minutes as the visitors stepped up the intensity and really started to string some big phases together down in the right areas of the pitch.

Curry out on the right stopped short, so back on the inside they come for another phase. Recycled back to Ford for the drop, and he's missed it! Pushed away to the right under pressure from the All Blacks chase! The New Zealanders have it!