{"id":129645,"date":"2025-11-09T01:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129645\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T01:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:10:06","slug":"fourteen-man-south-africa-dig-deep-to-humble-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129645\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen-man South Africa dig deep to humble France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World champions South Africa recovered from 14-6 down and the sending-off of powerhouse lock Lood de Jager to overpower France 32-17 in a bruising Autumn international.<\/p>\n<p>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 halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Two years after their agonising 29-28 World Cup quarter-final loss to the Springboks on home soil, Les Bleus appeared poised for revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Still without injured captain Antoine Dupont, France looked irresistible early on as winger Damian Penaud scored twice to become his country&#8217;s all-time leading try scorer with 40, surpassing Serge Blanco\u2019s long-standing record.<\/p>\n<p>A succession of reckless infringements and a costly yellow card, however, handed the initiative to the Springboks who punished every mistake.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa fought back with tries from Cobus Reinach, Andre Esterhuizen, Grant Williams and Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, who also slotted two penalties and three conversions.<\/p>\n<p>The Springboks will face Ireland on Saturday, 22 November, on the fourth outing of a five-leg November tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World champions South Africa recovered from 14-6 down and the sending-off of powerhouse lock Lood de Jager to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-129645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}