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Published 17:36 18 Oct 2015 BST
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Schmidt added, "Dev was unlucky about [the high tackle penalty on] Sanchez, who I thought was imperious today... but I do think he milked that for everything it was worth.
"Once it got to 26-20 it made it that more difficult. That is not taking anything away from his or the Argentinean performance. They really were superb."
The New Zealander also lamented Ian Madigan's missed penalty - at 23-20 - that "shaved the post".
Interestingly, Schmidt came back, time and again, to his team's lack of experience.
Granted, they were without Peter O'Mahony, Paul O'Connell, Sean O'Brien and Johnny Sexton, Ireland's starting XV still had over 600 caps of Test match experience.
Hard not to respect the performance Argentina put on.
Schmidt commented, " A lot of guys have never experienced a game of that intensity... Scoreboard pressure lifted their confidence and knocked ours... I'm not saying [our players] were overawed by it.
Asked if Ireland truly, madly, deeply missed O'Connell, Schmidt reasoned, "That's the nature of the game. It's that attritional.
"I'm incredibly proud of the guys that stepped but and I know the guys that missed out are incredibly proud too."
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