{"id":272011,"date":"2025-11-08T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272011\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:05:11","slug":"south-africa-surge-back-after-de-jager-sending-off-to-overpower-france-autumn-nations-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272011\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa surge back after De Jager sending-off to overpower France | Autumn Nations Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

World champions South Africa<\/a> recovered from 14-6 down and the sending-off of the powerhouse lock Lood de Jager to overpower France 32-17 in a bruising Autumn international on Saturday.<\/p>\n

France cracked completely under pressure as their discipline disintegrated, throwing away an early lead despite the Springboks being reduced to 14 men on the stroke of half-time.<\/p>\n

Two years after their agonising 29-28 World Cup quarter-final loss<\/a> to South Africa on home soil, Les Bleus appeared poised for revenge.<\/p>\n

Still without their injured captain, Antoine Dupont, France looked irresistible early on as the winger Damian Penaud scored twice to become his country\u2019s all-time leading try scorer with 40, surpassing Serge Blanco\u2019s longstanding record.<\/p>\n

A succession of reckless infringements and a costly yellow card, however, handed the initiative to the Springboks who punished every mistake.<\/p>\n

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South Africa fought back with tries from Cobus Reinach, Andr\u00e9 Esterhuizen, Grant Williams and Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, who also slotted two penalties and three conversions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World champions South Africa recovered from 14-6 down and the sending-off of the powerhouse lock Lood de Jager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-272011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272011","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=272011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}