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New Zealand boss Ian Foster plans to enjoy a bowl of popcorn while watching England\u2019s blockbuster with South Africa after his side eased into the Rugby World Cup final by dispatching Argentina.<\/p>\n
Foster can put his feet up for Saturday evening\u2019s colossal semi-final clash between Steve Borthwick\u2019s men and the Springboks thanks to a crushing 44-6 success over Los Pumas in Paris.<\/p>\n
The 58-year-old expects an \u201cinteresting contrast of styles\u201d in the other last-four fixture and is not bothered who the All Blacks face in next week\u2019s showpiece match at Stade de France.<\/p>\n
New Zealand barely broke sweat in booking an unprecedented fifth World Cup final appearance and now have the luxury of an extra day\u2019s rest as they await the identity of their ultimate opponents.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be watching it,\u201d said Foster. \u201cI\u2019ll probably have some popcorn and sit there and watch it and I don\u2019t care who wins. We\u2019re very much in a focus-about-ourselves stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing that extra day does give us, it gives us a bit of a chance to have a break mentally and not to spend too much juice worrying about if it\u2019s them, if it\u2019s them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re both good teams. South Africa have been playing some brilliant rugby the last few weeks and are clearly on top of their game.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019ve also seen an English side that just build away quietly and are probably starting to understand how they want to play and they\u2019re starting to get really good at how they want to play and believe in that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be an interesting contrast of styles.\u201d<\/p>\n
All Blacks wing Will Jordan ran in a hat-trick during the seven-try rout in Saint-Denis to lift him above France\u2019s Damian Penaud as the World Cup\u2019s leading try scorer on eight.<\/p>\n
The treble also saw the 25-year-old equal the record for tries in a single tournament, putting him alongside Jonah Lomu, Bryan Habana and Julian Savea.<\/p>\n
Foster was able to empty his bench long before the full-time whistle due to the emphatic scoreline and opted to keep the sin-binned Scott Barrett on the sidelines for around five minutes longer than required as the Kiwis finished with 14 men.<\/p>\n
Asked if those situations could prove advantageous moving towards the final, Foster said: \u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019ll make a massive difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cFinals are finals and whoever we play, they\u2019ll be a hundred per cent.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an opportunity for us to make sure that we looked after our resources as best we could.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really didn\u2019t see a need of putting Scooter (Barrett) back on, only from the perspective that if he had another little yellow card incident in the next five minutes, it might have made it a little bit niggly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Argentina were a shadow of the side who stunned Wales in the last eight.<\/p>\n
A pair of first-half Emiliano Boffelli penalties was all they could muster.<\/p>\n
Shannon Frizell\u2019s double, plus further tries from Jordie Barrett and Aaron Smith, added to their punishment.<\/p>\n
Los Pumas head coach Michael Cheika felt New Zealand ruthlessly exploited each of his team\u2019s errors and was unhappy with some of the refereeing, particularly during first-half rucks.<\/p>\n
The Australian promised his players will respond to a difficult outing in the bronze-medal match.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a sad moment; it\u2019s a moment when I\u2019m actually proud of my team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not an easy path that we\u2019ve been on. We\u2019ve invested ourselves a lot in this. But we\u2019ve lost on details. I\u2019m sad for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard but its a good thing it\u2019s hard. On Friday, we will be there, have no doubt. We will not leave this way.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to finish third. We\u2019ve got things we want to show in the bronze final. Right now, we\u2019re hurting.\u201d<\/p>\n