Watch every second of Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nSouth Africa took a 12 Test winning streak to Ellis Park in Johannesburg, but failed to translate pressure into points through handling errors and stout defending by the All Blacks.<\/p>\n
Rennie said he was concerned that “we were under the pump a fair bit, it was frustrating that we kept giving them entries into our 22”.<\/p>\n
After seeing his side pushed back at several scrums in the first half, the head coach hailed the set-piece improvement after the break.<\/p>\n
“We were solid at scrum time in the last 30 minutes and I was really happy with the forward effort,” he said.<\/p>\n
Before taking charge of New Zealand last March, Rennie won three of four Tests when coaching Australia against South Africa.<\/p>\n
“That was an absolute arm wrestle. We defended and defended and we were then clinical when we got our opportunities,” said captain and No. 8 Ardie Savea.<\/p>\n
South Africa head coach Rassie Erasmus said the Rugby World Cup holders made a host of errors and wasted key chances before a capacity 62,000 crowd.<\/p>\n
“We lost the ball over the line and then had three scrum penalties in a row. When awarded the third penalty, we could have taken the three points to level at 19-19,” he said.<\/p>\n
“There were two or three big moments like that where we let the game get away. New Zealand forced those errors on us, they were really intense and sharp.<\/p>\n
“They had a clear tactic to strip us in the tackle. Normally they chop-tackle you or push you to the ground. So there was a lot of good work by New Zealand.<\/p>\n
“It was disappointing not to be more clinical, but the All Blacks are great at knowing how to stop you in their 22.<\/p>\n
“We have a lot of things to fix. We had a dominant scrum, but you don’t just want to perform well in one area, you want to perform well in a few areas,” added Erasmus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand head coach Dave Rennie pinpointed clinical finishing as a key factor in a 33-16 win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[10751,64,63,760,85,2995],"class_list":["post-865159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-all-blacks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-springboks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865159","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=865159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}