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Tuesday, April 12 2022
Blues shut out Chiefs for sixth straight win

Blues 25
Chiefs 0

A defiant shutout in the Tron.

The highlight reels will replay the Blues' length of the field try, sparked from Mark Talea and Rieko Ioane, finished by Beauden Barrett's cross-field kick for Tom Robinson's double, all week.

Yet the essence of the Blues' sixth win in succession this season, one that includes a valuable bonus point against their neighbourly rivals on Saturday night, was their heart and soul scrambling defence that somehow repeatedly repelled the Chiefs, who were shut out for the first time in their 26-year history.

Three yellow cards the Blues conceded. Three tries the Chiefs were awarded, and then denied.

Reduced to 13 men after yellow cards to Luke Romano and Sam Nock late in the first half, the Blues did not concede a point in that 20-minute period. It defied belief. And it won the Blues the match.

As the Chiefs kept coming, the Blues kept defending.

All Blacks prop Ofa Tuungafasi pulled off a try-saving tackle that encapsulated the Blues' desperate efforts to jolt the ball from Chiefs hooker Samisoni Taukei'aho's grasp over the line, allowing the Blues to retain their 13-0 halftime lead.

Straight after the break Sam Cane ran an obstruction line for Etene Nanai-Seturo's first ruled out try.

Time and again the Blues found a way. Stephen Perofeta rushed up out of the line to make a spot tackle and force a wayward pass from Nanai-Seturo with a man unmarked outside him.

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