New Zealand v Uruguay LIVE: Rugby World Cup 2023 result and reaction as All Blacks secure quarter-final spot

A penalty against New Zealand soon after the restart, a clutch of forwards offside in chasing a pretty wretched attempted clearance. Uruguay find the corner.

Another first phase score!

Simple again for the All Blacks, not having to dig particularly deep into the bag of tricks to unlock the Uruguay defence. Advantage is coming once more with the South Americans struggling at the set piece, allowing New Zealand to play with freedom. This time the pass from Cam Roigard does go to Jordie Barrett, but is quickly out of the centre’s hands to Richie Mo’unga looping out the back. The fly half could tee up Damian McKenzie for a second but there’s little reason to chance a pass with space readily apparent in front of him, with Mo’unga easy acceleration ensuring he beats the edge defender to the line.

He pops through another two from the tee.

Not the best minute from Uruguay. Hooker German Kessler probably isn’t the right target for an amibitious offload as they attack up the left, and after Damian McKenzie turns them with a canny kick, Felipe Etcheverry takes his eye off the ball and lets it slip through his fingers. Scrum, New Zealand’s feed, five out from the Uruguay line. Danger.

Damian McKenzie goes over again - and this one will count!

A look of relief on a few Kiwi faces in the crowd as the All Blacks finally break through. The scrum did the damage, drawing the advantage, and Uruguay will be disappointed with the ease with which they were then cut open.

Cam Roigard pulls the pass behind Jordie Barrett to Richie Mo’unga, who simply shifts it on to McKenzie in a little bit of space. Through an arm-tackle the deceptively powerful playmaker drives, with Mo’unga’s conversion making it a seven-pointer.

The All Blacks go up through the gears, perhaps realising that they need to with Uruguay proving feisty. Damian McKenzie turns down a pass to men outside him and goes it alone after Shannon Frizell had hurried through a half-hole, but the full-back is scragged.

Cam Roigard snipes and is vulnerable to Manuel Ardao’s jackal, but the tackler’s failure to vacate the space undermines Ardao’s scavenging work. Penalty New Zealand underneath the sticks - and Sam Cane signals for a scrum.

The faces of the All Blacks coaches turn to stone - it’s chalked off! Richie Mo’unga was around the neck of Santiago Arata at a breakdown earlier in the movement, with another sharp spot from TMO Jonker ruling out an opening score. Wayne Barnes awards Uruguay the penalty - are New Zealand just starting to get a little bit more frustrated?

Damian McKenzie bursts free after a prolonged attacking passage - but TMO Marius Jonker wants to check something...

A couple of messy lineouts disrupt Uruguay’s hopes of building on a promising period, but this has been good, again, from Esteban Meneses’s side. Their accuracy in defence has been impressive, just as it was against France.

That’s a little aimless, though, Felipe Etcheverry chipping himself into trouble and then conceding a soft breakdown penalty. New Zealand kick down towards the Uruguay 22.

There’s a toe in touch! Agonisingly close for Manuel Ardao, somehow forced out by a covering Anton Lienert-Brown. The All Blacks had tried to play from deep but found themselves turned over, with Ardao and two mates all alone on the left edge. The flanker hustled for the corner flag but Lienert-Brown got just enough of him in the tackle, running his boot along the chalk as Ardao went to ground.

Brilliant from Gaston Mieres! The veteran rolls back the years, shimmying and scurrying around the outside of Leicester Fainga’anuku with Sam Whitelock also left trailing in his wake.

The supporting player knocks on as an All Black thumps him from behind - but are Uruguay over in the opposite corner as they attack again?