Alan Alaalatoa made inroads and Etzebeth’s tackle on Rob Valetini was deemed as too high. Malcolm Marx was penalised for reaching beyond the ball and failing to support his weight at a ruck. Nevertheless, Australia stayed within seven until Philip returned and finally found some fluency around the half-hour mark. Twice, as the depleted Wallabies attempted to find momentum, they were thwarted by breakdown penalties with Siya Kolisi’s scavenging prominent. Then the heavies took over, De Allende finishing after Etzebeth had stood tall and offloaded out of contact.īefore the conversion from Willemse, Matt Philip was yellow-carded for failing to retreat 10 metres prior to Hendrikse’s tap. Australia held on initially, surviving a couple of teasing kicks across their 22, but subsided in the ninth minute.ĭamian Willemse, installed at fly-half in the absence of Handre Pollard, danced past a number of tackles and Jaden Hendrikse sniped close after taking a quick-tap penalty. Spurred to end a curious hoodoo, South Africa began well and squeezed their hosts through the familiar medium of their line-out maul. This was doubtlessly a reaction to White’s part in the sin-binning of Faf de Klerk in Adelaide. After four rounds, all four teams have two wins and two losses.Ī sizeable contingent of Springboks fans were in situ and made their feelings towards Nic White heard, booing the Wallabies scrum-half as he readied himself for box-kicks. In a tetchy and fractured encounter at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Jacques Nienaber’s men were comfortably the better side and resurrected their prospects of taking The Rugby Championship. South Africa snapped their wretched run in Australia with a win over the Wallabies that was illuminated by a try on Test debut by teenage wing Canan Moodie.ĭamian de Allende, Franco Mostert and Makazole Mapimpi also scored for the dominant Springboks, who threatened to cut loose as they registered a first away triumph in this fixture since 2013. Late Samu score gives hosts consolation in first home loss to Springboks since 2013.Wallabies struggle to fight back in second half as Mostert and Mapimpi add further Springbok scores.First-half try from Moodie on debut gives South Africa 12-3 half-time lead.
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