Six of Pumas’ starting XV ply their trade in the Premiership and England know exactly how good Julián Montoya can be
n professional rugby, fear of the unknown has been replaced by an even scarier phenomenon – knowledge that your opponent might just be better. Where early World Cups were filled with surprise results – most notably two different iterations of Samoa stunning Wales – there is now so much footage of even the lowest-ranked nations that analysts can pore over hours of tape of their opposition.
“We had a lot of players who played their rugby in France so those players were well known to their opponents. Clearly, there is a psychological aspect which I think got into the heads of the French players. They were thinking: ‘I’ve played with this guy, he’s really good, he never gives up and will do everything to win.’ Those psychological aspects unquestionably had an impact in the games against France.
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