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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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