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TWICKENHAM, London -- Argentina were the perfect hosts at Twickenham. They played with a wonderful, expansive style of easy-on-the-eye rugby but were also far too generous in their hospitality with wayward kicking, passing and knock-ons gifting the Wallabies opportunities for territory and ultimately, points.Australia stuck to their systems, managed to hold off the sometimes fluid, occasionally chaotic Argentina attack to get a morale-boosting win. The Pumas played brilliantly, at times, with Leonardo Senatore, Agustin Creevy and Pablo Matera monumental but ultimately, they lacked a cool head in opening up areas of the field and taking points on offer.Just over a year ago, Twickenham was playing host to this fixture in the World Cup semifinal. There were elements of that game which had been borrowed for this London-based Rugby Championship Test. The unstructured open nature was not as prevalent in the World Cup but various nuances remained -- the countdown before the Test, the dimming of the lights and above all, the feeling of merriment at watching rugbys great entertainers attempt to take down the ever improving Wallabies.Considering the absent personnel in Argentinas ranks -- just 12 players from last years semifinal squad were in Saturdays 23-man group -- this was an impressive performance. These days in the brave new era of an Argentina Super Rugby franchise, gone are the European-based Pumas and instead they have the local band together as they target a top eight place in the rankings by the end of the year.The plans for the near and far future involve a Test against Japan in November, as they look to build the brand in that part of the world ahead of the 2019 global gathering, and one day a place in rugbys premier event -- the World Cup final.In the here and now they were wonderful heading forward but struggled to find a consistency from the tee -- Santiago Gonzalez Iglesias was sublime with ball in hand, but lacked first-half accuracy when faced with the lonely task of putting the ball between the uprights -- and knocked on at vital moments. Twice they failed to ground the ball on the try line.There were reasons for real optimism, though. Matera and Senatore were superb in their back-row while Creevy continues to dodge Old Father Time and his mischievous offloads see him drive the Pumas ethos of playing anything and everything from the front. Ramiro Herrera, the Pumas tight-head, was also formidable.Australia played the part as visitors well -- they were even greeted with a rendition of Men at Works Down Under at half time -- and two mistimed high shots saw them spend 20 minutes of the first half with just 14 players. And they snaffled up the hospitality with Samu Kerevi pouncing on a loose pass in the second half to add a score to his first-half try after he danced through flailing Argentina arms to dot the ball down. Dean Mumm also grabbed a late interception to get the game-clinching try.He was their main strike runner while Dane Haylett-Petty ran well to tee up Adam Colemans first-half score. Michael Hooper, bar the yellow card, was also superb in and around the breakdown and Will Genia provided enough quick ball to attack when opportunities presented themselves.Genias replacement Nick Phipps was extremely lucky only to concede a penalty when he bizarrely pushed over the Pumas physio with the referee, somewhat submissively, saying calm down, its only a rugby game.This will be a morale-boosting win for the Wallabies. The oval ball tide has been against them this year but back at the place where they reached the World Cup final a year ago, they looked at home but you imagine would still look vulnerable to a well-organised, ruthless side unwilling to play a style of rugby which allows them to suits them to defend against.They will now head into the third Bledisloe Cup Test at Eden Park in a fortnight but given the way the All Blacks are performing and the tendency to take Tests on the road, you could take that game to Mars, make them play without spacesuits and theyd still find a way of racking up the points.For the Pumas, they will now take stock and focus on their end-of-year Tests. They want three wins from four and will return to Twickenham to face England.Though they failed to get the win they so wanted here, it was a bold move that paid off with 48,515 rugby-loving folk journeying over to turn this corner of Middlesex a lovely brew of blue, white, green and gold. It was wonderful fun. 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Thats certainly unacceptable.After the game Sunday night, coach Bruce Arians said his team was not prepared well enough.We were obviously not ready to play, Arians said during his postgame news conference. They outplayed us and we will learn from it and grow from it and continue.Theres a long way to go and regroup and see if we can win the next one.Keim criticized all three phases of the Cardinals performance at University of Phoenix Stadium, citing an overall lack of execution. He called Arizonas special teams very disappointing in every area, its third-down defense very frustrating, and said the passing game was out of sync in the first half, when quarterback Carson Palmer and his receivers were not on the same page.Kicker Chandler Catanzaro missed a potential game-winning kick with 41 seconds left after rookie long snapper Kameron Canaday snapped it low. Arizonas offense never began a drive past its own 25-yard line when receiving a kickoff from the Patriots.The Cardinals defense failed to stop New England on 10 of 16 third downs and had trouble defending Garoppolo?despite knowing what was coming. Keim said Arizona felt pretty strongly about the defensive plan Arizona had in place, but the Cardinals just didnt execute.Keim also blamed poor tackling for aallowing what shouldve been a short gain on third-and-manageable situations to turn into a first down.ddddddddddddWe knew it would be hard to get to Garoppolo because most of it would be a three-step drop and he would get the ball out of his hands, but the cushion that we played with, the isolations that they got with some of their inside slot receivers on safeties and the lack of leverage and the inability to tackle in space, those were all extremely disappointing and a major reason why we were 10-of-16, Keim said.Keim said he doesnt believe in good losses.Not when youre playing a backup quarterback and theyre missing some playmakers and its a game at home, he said. Our mindset is you cannot lose those games in front of our crowd.Keim said he will bring in players to try out for the Cardinals on Tuesday -- something he didnt do last week -- but wouldnt specify at which positions.While the Cardinals performance in their season-opening loss has caused some second-guessing among those who picked them to win Super Bowl LI, Keim said he hasnt levied that type of hype on his team. He said he has been focused on building a talented group. He noted that when the Cardinals roster doesnt play to its level, then were going to have disappointment, and thats certainly what happened last night.We got to regroup, Keim said. Its the-sky-is-falling Monday, and thats the feel that all of us should have and use that as a chip on our shoulder to make sure it doesnt happen again.Its that one thing that we have to do is continue to go out and execute and make sure that something like last night doesnt happen again. ' ' '