Scotland vs New Zealand: The All Blacks deny Scotland’s historic win

The history of this match suggests that Scotland needed a near-perfect performance, while hoping the visitors would have a bad day.

It wasn’t like that, but the scene was exciting.

Scotland fought bravely from close range – especially on their own goal line – but wasted two efforts as a result of poor defending high up the pitch.

Just three minutes later, tall Josh Lord raced through a gaping gap in the crease before carelessly slotting the ball into the onrushing Roegaard half.

That took the wind out of the fans’ sails and Murrayfield was silenced again moments before half-time when Scotland were asleep and City put Jordan away.

However, the atmosphere was completely turned, as Gregor Townsend’s side came out of the break as if they were owned by men.

Ashman was collected after a strong push from the herd and Savea was sent to the bin for a violation during that hit.

Russell then went wide to find Steyn and the winger, favored over Doohan van der Merwe, for this 14th international try.

The crowd noise was deafening as White was stopped short and Shuman was stripped of his grip on the whitewash, while the outstretched Graham was unable to hold on as he reached the goal line.

Scotland continued to push forward and Russell converted a penalty to make the game even.

With Cityte guilty of a deliberate kick, the home side had all the momentum – but more importantly they couldn’t get their noses in front.

Once they were back to full capacity and with the strength of their bench on the field, New Zealand found a second wind.

It looked as if Blair Kinghorn had arrived in time to knock McKenzie out for a touch but he managed to get out of the tackle and twist into his path.

McKenzie made an unfortunate conversion attempt but then put the game beyond Scotland in the dying moments from a long-range penalty.