{"id":190272,"date":"2025-10-04T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190272\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:13:09","slug":"south-africa-v-argentina-recap-springboks-beat-pumas-to-retain-rugby-championship-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190272\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa v Argentina recap: Springboks beat Pumas to retain Rugby Championship title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">\n         The first five-eighths claimed<br \/>\n         three tries and kicked eight conversions and two penalties for South Africa, who led New Zealand by one point with one round remaining.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">His points haul bettered by two the 35 of retired fullback Percy Montgomery for the Springboks against Namibia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit scored two tries for the home team, who dominated the second half after leading 25-23 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Other try-scorers for South Africa were hooker Malcolm Marx, winger Cheslin Kolbe, halfback Morne van den Berg and substitute back Manie Libbok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Argentina fly-half Santiago Carreras slotted three penalties and two conversions, centre Santiago Chocobares and substitute back Tomas Albornoz scored tries. The Pumas were also awarded a penalty try.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Argentina twice led by five points in a first half that came alive in the closing stages after the early exchanges were dominated by penalties and box kicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">South Africa suffered a double blow just before halftime when they conceded a penalty try, and Marx was yellow-carded for his role in a collapsed maul that led to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">But the Springboks still had time for Feinberg-Mngomezulu to score his second try and convert it for a two-point advantage at the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">After a close, tense, opening half, South Africa took control to score a further six tries as the Pumas resistance crumbled under constant pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">South Africa have 15 points after five rounds, New Zealand 14, Australia 11 and eliminated Argentina nine ahead of the final matches on October 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">The Wallabies host the All Blacks in Perth, then the Pumas will face the Springboks again, in a match to be staged in London for commercial reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first five-eighths claimed three tries and kicked eight conversions and two penalties for South Africa, who led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[120612,6074,12910,64,63,67976,9663,78885,91656,120611,760,8080,85,2995,8821,319,112937],"class_list":["post-190272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-120612","tag-africa","tag-argentina","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beat","tag-championship","tag-pumas","tag-recap","tag-retain","tag-rugby","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-springboks","tag-title","tag-to","tag-twickenham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}