South Africa vs. Argentina: The Springboks Won Conveniently By a Big Margin
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South Africa did a tremendous job against Argentina. They won the match by 26-12. They played the first half with tremendous energy and confidence and ended up by leading 20-9. Though Argentina fought back in the second half but it was not enough. Three penalties were taken in this half. South Africa had two and Argentina had one. Argentina missed a lot of chances but it was their bad luck.
Because of hamstring injury and scrums, Marcos Ayerza got late withdrawal from the front row of puma. It’s sure that his absence is the reason of puma’s penalized for four times as scrums. Victor Matfield praised the South African coach Pieter de Villiers. He said that Villiers worked hard with his players through the week on scrumming. Though the scrums for the whole game were messy. 12 scrums happened during the match. Those scrums incurred sin penalties, twelve collapses, two free kicks and seven resets. At the end of the game Springboks had the control of the play.
Springboks were top of their game from the first to last whistle. They had solid possession and also did protect their possession at the same time. The game were started as Patrick Lambie kicked off. But it was Pumas who got the turnover when Zane Kircher was trying to do attack. Their first chance came when Eben Etzebeth did a splendid tackle. He helped Puma to get a corner. It was the best scoring chance for puma though it was a miss.
After sometime Agustin Greevy did a tackle and penalized. They were ahead just after six minutes as the result was 3 – 0. Then it was Marcell Van Der Merwe who got penalized because of arm binding. Nicolas Sanchez took the credit of first score for his team and after fourteen minutes it was 3 – 3. At sixteen minutes Argentina again penalized during tackle and Lambie scored against them. South Africa took the lead by 6-3. After that South Africa again tried to attack but this time Lambie failed to produce a good kick towards wing. After that springboks did attack after attack and got two penalties within five meter. But both of them were unsuccessful. During second half, Springboks used a scrum (5 meter) which was also unsuccessful. Pienaar gave pass to Brayan Habana at the wing. Brayan scored the easiest try of the game. At twenty six minutes Lambie scored for South Africa and the result become 13-3. Lwazi Mvovo scored in 29 minutes by beating three defenders. It was converted by Lambie. Before half time Sanchez did tackle and missed. He gave the opponent a straight penalty. After several minutes another player miss tackled against Etzebeth and gave away penalty. These penalties made the half time score 20-9.
In the second half, both of the hookers were substituted. At 43 minutes Lambie scored again and make the difference 23-9. Then Sanchez scored again in penalty at the result was 26-9 while only twenty five minutes remained for Argentina to come back. But Argentina did able to add only three more points. Patrick Lambie was nominated as the man of the match.
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