South Africa beat Ireland in Dublin for the first time in 13 years, winning 24-13 after a dramatic and chaotic incident-packed match this morning.<\/p>\n
The Irish struggled to handle the Springboks’ physicality and a green mist descended in which they conceded a 20-minute red card and four yellow cards. For a time, Ireland was down to 12 men.<\/p>\n
South Africa turned the pressure into four tries, one of them a penalty try, and a third straight win on their European tour with only lowly Wales to visit.<\/p>\n
The penalty try, awarded against Ireland’s backpedalling scrum in first-half injury time, lifted the Springboks to a 19-7 lead as a train of Irish players were brandished with yellow cards by referee Matthew Carley.<\/p>\n
Carley’s halftime whistle prompted loud booing from the packed crowd in Aviva Stadium.<\/p>\n
But short-handed Ireland was all heart after the interval, outscoring South Africa 6-5.<\/p>\n
South Africa got a moment of solo brilliance by Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu but Jesse Kriel was held up over the line and Canan Moodie knocked-on in goal under pressure.<\/p>\n
The Irish were unable to break the Springboks’ defence in the second half, even after besieging their try-line for the last five minutes. <\/p>\n
They finally got a man advantage in the 78th when replacement Boks scrumhalf Grant Williams was yellow-carded but the visitors held out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa beat Ireland in Dublin for the first time in 13 years, winning 24-13 after a dramatic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[836,19399,99558,789,4766,42,5620,1073,43,80275,49541,2667,99559,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-148946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-836","tag-abs","tag-akl","tag-all-blacks","tag-conference","tag-headlines","tag-interview","tag-media","tag-news","tag-nzl","tag-press","tag-rugby-union","tag-stand-up","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}