Red-carded All Blacks star's tour under threat

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The All Blacks could suffer playmakers Brodie Retallick for their circuit to Europe aft a reddish paper successful a contention excessively choky for comfortableness with Japan.

The All Blacks survived a tense 80-minute brushwood to triumph 38-31 astatine National Stadium successful Tokyo.

Japan kept the visitors honorable passim and astatine times looked similar they mightiness endanger to triumph the match.

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The decisive infinitesimal came successful the 66th infinitesimal erstwhile prima fastener Retallick was fixed a reddish paper for making interaction with the cervix of Kazuki Himeno successful the ruck.

"You've travel from a region with a tucked enarthrosis and made nonstop interaction with the player's neck," said the lucifer referee.

"There's a precocious grade of information with nary mitigation. It's a reddish card."

Stan Sport commentator Tony Johnson remarked: "Brodie Retalick, his circuit mightiness person conscionable travel to an end".

String of scintillating offloads gain All Blacks try

It was a lucifer that kept the location assemblage connected the borderline of their spot arsenic the 2 teams traded blows.

An offload from Samisoni Taukei'aho to Retalick opened the scoring successful the 11th infinitesimal earlier Japan brought the borderline backmost with a punishment kick.

Braydon Ennor threatened to widen the spread successful the 22nd infinitesimal disconnected the backmost of a trademark league-style spot footwear courtesy of Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.

However, Ennor was held up successful the in-goal and the people stayed 7-3 successful favour of the All Blacks.

Japan scores from cheeky complaint down

On the 2nd clip of asking, Ennor wouldn't beryllium stopped conscionable 3 minutes aboriginal to marque the people 14-3.

Tuivasa-Sheck played different pivotal relation successful the 32nd-minute try, flicking the shot to his wrong disconnected the backmost of a agelong line-out to springiness Sevu Reece wide aerial to marque it 21-3.

A important mistake by Stephen Perofeta led to Takuya Yamasawa scoring Japan's archetypal effort successful the 36th infinitesimal to gully the scoreline backmost to 21-10.

Another decisive infinitesimal came 3 minutes aboriginal erstwhile a grubber footwear rebounded disconnected an All Blacks subordinate and landed backmost successful the hands of Japan.

A wide receiving shot landed successful the hands of Gold Coast-born Dylan Riley, who recovered abstraction to walk the shot disconnected to Yutaka Nagare, who recovered abstraction aft Perofeta and Finlay Christie took aft Riley. That made the people 21-17 successful favour of the All Blacks.

It wasn't agelong into the 2nd fractional earlier Caleb Clarke stormed done the antiaircraft line, extending the spread erstwhile much to 28-17.

New Zealand-born Warner Dearns, lad of erstwhile Silver Ferns netballer Tanya Dearns, charged down a footwear successful the 56th infinitesimal and gathered the shot successful 1 swift question earlier sprinting towards the effort enactment to bring Japan wrong 4 points astatine 28-24 aft the conversion.

However, the All Blacks responded astir instantly arsenic Hoskins Sotutu spun retired of a tackle and scored to bring the equation to 35-24.

Retalick's reddish paper followed and Japan pounced connected the depleted All Blacks.

With conscionable 2 minutes successful the lucifer to go, Kazuki Himeno conscionable got implicit the enactment to marque the people 35-31.

There were tense moments arsenic the TMO reviewed the try, lone to find nary grounds to overturn the ruling.

In the end, the All Blacks defence connected the restart was excessively good.

Japan conceded a punishment and the All Blacks kicked to extremity up 38-31.

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