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Wayne Bennett has accused his England side of beating themselves against Australia and pinpointed skipper Sam Burgess as a chief culprit.The ruthless Kangaroos punished the error-prone hosts with 38-16 win at the London Stadium to end their Four Nations campaign in front of a crowd of over 35,000, leaving Bennett in a frustrated mood after the game.NRL stars Gaeth Widdop and Josh Hodgson both failed to find touch with penalties in the first half and Burgess was penalised twice just before halftime by English referee Robert Hicks, much to the dismay of his coach.The problem is our inability to continually maintain pressure... not finding the sideline on two occasions, which is pretty important in any context let alone against the best team in the world, Bennett said.Then the stupid penalties we continually give away.Sam gives away far too many penalties - Ill be quite candid with you.He does that at South Sydney as well so he needs to change his behaviour.Burgess said he agreed with Bennetts comments about his indiscipline but slammed Hicks performance and accused him of being swayed by verbal pressure from Australia skipper Cameron Smith.Theyre a class outfit, but I think were a better side than that scoreline, Burgess said.I agree with Wayne, I did give two penalties away at the end of the first half and one led to two points. Its something I have to improve on.Some of the calls were not good enough at all, youve got to put the whistle away at some point, and Im not saying that is why we lost.But this is an international and there were 13 or 14 penalties in the first half.I dont know what agenda hes got there but at this level I dont think they were penalties.He was being made aware of the penalty count by an Australian player and made sure it was even by halftime.Asked if it was Cameron Smith, Burgess responded: Yeah, hes a smart player. Byron Murphy Cardinals Jersey . One game after a miserable showing in Oklahoma City, Gay tied a career high with 41 points and the Sacramento Kings cruised to a 114-97 victory at the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night. 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Lets take a look at just a few of the teams that found themselves tied up on the first day of MLG Las Vegas.Inconsistent FaZe ClanFaZe Clan entered MLG Las Vegas on a high note, looking dominant in a win at the PSX Invitational earlier in December. So it seemed only natural that they would beat the unheralded organization Gosu Crew to start group play in Pool A. Instead, Gosu Crew had arguably the biggest upset of the tournament with its 3-2 series win over FaZe. While James Clayster Eubanks has continued his hot start in the new season, repeatedly picking up critical kills throughout the match, Ian Enable Wyatt and the rest of the FaZe Clan were unable to pick up the remaining slack to help push the team to victory.That shocking loss only seemed to fuel FaZe Clan however, as the team managed to grab a 3-1 series win over the defending 2016 world champions Team EnVyUs in its second match of day 1. After choking away a 100-point lead in the initial Hardpoint, FaZe Clan dominated the rest of the series, with captain Clayster leading the way. Between sniping, slaying and even dunking, the team captain of FaZe refused to let his team lose, keeping the squads championship bracket hopes alive for another day.Grey Skies for Cloud9For Cloud9, a team still looking to prove it belongs in the elite category of competitive Call of Duty, Fridays matches could not have gone much worse. Whille it did manage to earn a 1-1 record heading into day 2, it could have been better considering C9 started both matches with a 2-0 lead.dddddddddddd However, a reverse sweep by Team Kaliber in the first match, and a near reverse sweep by Echo Fox in the second match surely put some doubt in the minds of Cloud9 faithful as to whether the team can close out its opposition. Expecting to face one of several strong teams coming out of the Open Bracket, Cloud9 is by no means assured a chance to move out of Pool C, especially if it plays to the level it did in day 1.A Hole in the Green WallThe theme of Fridays action was undoubtedly inconsistency, as Pool Bs OpTic Gaming joined a long list of teams who were unable to string together two strong performances in a row. After trouncing Revenge in its first match of the day 3-0, the Green Wall found its hands full against a motivated Rise Nation squad. Despite a dominating performance in its earlier Search and Destroy match against Revenge, OpTic failed to continue that trend against Rise, losing both of its S&D rounds in the 3-2 series defeat. Truthfully, the results could have been much different had Seth Scump Abner been able to capitalize on any of his one-vs-one opportunities. As it stands, OpTic Gamings lack of success in S&D will leave the team with a critical match against their groups TBD Open Bracket team. Should it lose, the Green Wall could be in a position to miss advancing from the group entirely.Starting at 5pm ET on Saturday, the Open Bracket will decide the final teams to join pools and pool play will finish. The championship bracket will begin around 10:30pm ET the same day. ' ' '