Wallabies shock rugby world with miracle win

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By Sam Worthington with AP

The Wallabies person pulled off 1 of the top comebacks successful Australia's affluent rugby history, storming location precocious to stun Wales 39-34 successful their season-ending Test successful Cardiff.

Wales led 34-13 with 23 minutes to play earlier youngsters Mark Nawaqanitawase and Lachlan Lonergan sparked an epic turnaround to enactment a affirmative decorativeness connected a hard year.

Breakout winger Nawaqanitawase scored 2 tries portion back-up hooker Lonergan grabbed the match-winning people and past the decisive turnover to interruption the hosts.

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Lonergan scores match-winning try

The Wallabies decorativeness the Autumn Nations Series with a 2-3 grounds with each 5 matches compelling and frustrating successful adjacent measure.

"We've had truthful galore choky losses truthful to seal 1 astatine the extremity similar that is hugely satisfying," Wallabies manager Dave Rennie told Andrew Mehrtens connected Stan Sport's coverage.

"We got large interaction disconnected the seat and we enactment them connected beauteous aboriginal due to the fact that we were struggling early. So they were fantastic.

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Nawaqanitawase burns Welsh defence

"When you're down by arsenic overmuch arsenic we were it's hugely satisfying. We've got an unbelievable radical of fantabulous people. We're going to get to celebrate."

Wales talented the Australians a mode backmost successful erstwhile skipper Justin Tipuric was yellowish carded for tripping Pete Samu aft an intercept.

The Wallabies were astute capable to exposure Tipuric's lack erstwhile Nawaqanitawase scored disconnected lineout ball.

Wallabies hooker crashes over

Then the Wallabies forwards earned a punishment effort from a rolling maul and they were trailing lone 34-32 with six agelong minutes to go.

Moreover, Wales was reduced to 13 players arsenic replacement hooker Ryan Elias was yellowish carded for collapsing the maul.

Australia made it count.

Gleeson rocks Wales successful archetypal start

Nawaqanitawase's interruption had support, Wales halfback Kieran Hardy intercepted a past walk but knocked it forward, and Lonergan regathered and ran successful for the winning try, his archetypal successful Test rugby, successful the 78th minute.

Australia has besides mislaid 9 Tests this twelvemonth but completed a gruelling, wounded riddled, circuit of Europe with a triumph for the archetypal clip successful 9 years.

"That was massive," Mehrtens said.

Australia observe astatine the last whistle. (Getty)

"Australia volition inactive look astatine however they allowed the Welsh forwards to get connected apical but this was 1 of the champion performances of the bluish series. Good execution, bully composure and determination making."

The teams are owed to conscionable successful the Rugby World Cup excavation signifier adjacent September but if the Wallabies are astatine afloat strength, lone 5 oregon six from the starting broadside successful Cardiff ought to commencement successful Lyon.

Australia didn't person the likes of dense hitters Michael Hooper, Samu Kerevi, Marika Koroibete, Rob Valetini, Nic White, Taniela Tupou, Bernard Foley oregon Tom Banks.

Mark Nawaqanitawase of Australia runs with the ball. (Getty)

Five-eighth Ben Donaldson, who missed the past gasp conversion to bushed Italy, and No.8 Langi Gleeson, started a Test for the archetypal time.

"Us boys had a batch of belief," Nawaqanitawase told Stan Sport.

"There were a fewer things successful the archetypal fractional that fto america down but we showed a batch of courageousness and quality to travel backmost and win.

Lachlan Lonergan of Australia goes implicit to score. (Getty)

"We've lone mislaid by a constituent against the apical teams. Don't suffer religion successful america – we've got a beardown squad and backmost ourselves."

Despite racking up their astir points against Australia, the Welsh managed the past 4th severely and their ninth nonaccomplishment successful 12 Tests gave them their worst calendar twelvemonth since 2010.

The results had already enactment the aboriginal of manager Wayne Pivac successful uncertainty earlier the latest heartbreaking loss.

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