England 29-30 Argentina: Pumas land famous win at Twickenham

England made a sobering start to their autumn campaign as Argentina shocked an 80,000 strong crowd with an audacious and deserved victory.

The game was tied at 16 at the half-time break, but two runs by Boffelli and Carreras changed the complexion of the game.

Jack van Poortvliet scored to repair some of the damage, but Boffelli's boot decided the game.

It is Argentina's second away win over England.

Following on from a first-ever win away to New Zealand earlier in the year, it is the latest landmark win for the Argentina's.

Argentina finished bottom of the Rugby Championship and were expected to ease England into a month of games against the All Blacks and South Africa.

Eddie Jones was glowing from the big screen as his side's desperate attempts to save the game came up empty.

Argentina's bench shot to the sky in celebration after Henry Slade spilled forward in the middle to end an England move.

In the Rugby World Cup, the two teams will play each other.

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England come up short on sodden pitch

For most of the opening exchanges Jones' 'New England' fell back on old strengths as the saturated pitch made it hard to run rugby.

Joe Cokanasiga's power, a real point of difference among England's back-three options, gave them the lead on 25 minutes.

The Bath wing surged onto an inside pass from Ben Youngs in the 25th minute, shrugging off the centre and twisting through Juan Martin Gonzalez's tackle to ground the ball.

England could not open up. Boffelli's boot had the Argentinas within a point at 13-12 before the England front row crumpled their counterparts at the scrum to give Farrell a penalty.

England had a four-point lead at the start of the second half.

Boffelli ran into the corner after Matias Moroni's perfectly timed pull-back pass wrong-footed England's defence.

Thomas Gallo put the heat on the England captain by putting Owen Farrell's pass to floor. Santiago Carreras sprinted in from 50m as he showed all the pace that has him stationed on the wing.

The referee called for a review of Gallo's hit on Farrell, but the replays could not detect any knock on from Gallo as Farrell got his pass away and the score stood.

Argentina was leading 24-16 when the jeopardy changed the course of the game.

England landed a quick counter when replacement Van Poortvliet slid under the sticks just 29 seconds after coming on.

Farrell's penalty gave England a 26-24 lead. Three minutes later, Boffelli kicked it back in his direction. Farrell replied again.

As England ran out of steam and ideas, it was the Edinburgh man who had the last word.

Andy Robinson was fired as England's head coach after Argentina's victory at the Rugby World Cup final less than a year after he'd been hired.

Eddie Jones is still England's most successful coach despite a change of leadership.

Things have to improve for the Australian to take on Cheika again in 10 months time.

Player of the match- Santiago Carreras

'We made silly mistakes' - what Eddie Jones said

Jones said that losing always hurts. There was a lot of change in the lead.

It's not possible to put your finger on what happened. Structurally, we had control of the game, but we made a lot of mistakes.

The pitch was the same for both teams. They were able to get the points at the correct time. We didn't have cohesiveness.

"After half-time we were getting our game in place, but then we made mistakes and we were chasing our tail."

The way the team went about it was nice. There was a lack of cohesiveness.

We know it's not good enough.

Line-ups

England: Nowell, Tuilagi, Farrell, Cokanasiga, Smith, Youngs, Genge, Cowan-Dickie, Sinckler, Cole, Hill, Itoje, Curry, B Vunipola

Replacements include Heyes, Ribbans, Simmonds, and Van Poortvliet.

Mallia, Moroni, De la Fuente, Boffelli and S Carreras are from Argentina.

The replacements were Ruiz, Tetaz Chaparro, Bello, Paulos, Isa, and Talbornoz.