Join now and get your first month for just $1 ><\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThis win is right up there, especially since it has been 60-odd years since we tasted success in Joburg,\u201d veteran Australia prop James Slipper said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have worked hard and we have got a bit of confidence, but we are still building. Credit to the boys that they stuck in there, and the bench really added value.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a bit of a slow start and the Boks started really fast, but we kinda knew that they would come at us hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is such a special moment, it is a tough ask to come here and play the world champions. We will gain a lot of confidence from this result.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be another tough game next weekend (in Cape Town) and we will prepare hard. The Springboks are hurting and will want revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia’s centre Joseph Aukuso-Suaalii. Photo by WIKUS DE WET \/ AFPSource: AFP<\/p>\n
South Africa captain Siya Kolisi, a flanker playing at No 8 for the first time in a 94-Test career, said: \u201cThe things we worked on, like discipline and the breakdown, they did not work.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe let ourselves down and it was unacceptable the way we performed, especially after a start like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, there were errors, but it was the breakdown – we would get into their 22 and they would steal the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe took our foot off while they kept on fighting. We are not proud of that performance today.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will lift ourselves up and fight again next week. Whoever gets the opportunity to play must take it. Thank you to our supporters and sorry for the performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Record four-time Rugby World Cup winners South Africa were unstoppable in the early stages on a grey evening at Ellis Park with scrum-half Grant Williams playing a key role.<\/p>\n
His perfectly weighted box kicks allowed the Springboks to establish an aerial advantage and the power of the forwards had the visitors reeling.<\/p>\n
When Kolisi crossed for the third try it was hard to imagine what was to follow in the first game of the southern hemisphere championship season.<\/p>\n
The first hint that a stunning revival was imminent came on 29 minutes when Pietsch scored. He was forced to retire injured soon after following a collision with Kolisi.<\/p>\n
Australia dominated the second half, helped by endless basic errors from South Africa. When Wilson scored his second try on 64 minutes, Australia took a 24-22 lead.<\/p>\n
The Springboks were let down by a lack of pace and by missed tackles on defence in the closing stages. Jorgensen and Wright took advantage to end a run of seven straight Wallaby losses in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a match and a performance that will go down in Wallabies history,\u201d former Australian representative Morgan Turinui said on Stan Sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain and No 8 Harry Wilson scored two tries as Australia staged a remarkable comeback to stun South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[57262,6074,57076,64,63,689,46386,57264,57273,5956,57270,57075,45891,2105,57276,57267,57268,57265,1381,45884,57271,9366,24245,44,57275,677,57263,10672,1183,57274,18780,57261,57266,2995,57072,57269,57277,57272,20591],"class_list":["post-73679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-aerial-advantage","tag-africa","tag-andre-esterhuizen","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-players","tag-australian-representative","tag-australian-try-scorers","tag-cape-town","tag-centre-joseph","tag-dylan-pietsch","tag-gauteng","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-grey-evening","tag-hemisphere-championship-season","tag-james-oconnor","tag-james-slipper","tag-joe-schmidt","tag-johannesburg","tag-john-grant-williams","tag-max-jorgensen","tag-morgan-turinui","tag-news","tag-no-8-harry-wilson","tag-oceania","tag-remarkable-comeback","tag-siya-kolisi","tag-south-africa","tag-south-african-economic-capital","tag-southern-africa","tag-southern-hemisphere-championship","tag-special-moment","tag-springboks","tag-tom-wright","tag-wallabies-pull","tag-weighted-box-kicks","tag-western-cape","tag-world-champions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73679","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=73679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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