New Zealand’s win – by a rather significant margin of 17 points – was dubbed “surprising” and “comfortable”, with world media highlighting the All Blacks dominating performance.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Springboks were left to reflect on a disappointing performance, as noted by media.<\/p>\n
The victory gives the All Blacks an early advantage in the four-match series and will give the team a boost of confidence heading into the second Test.<\/p>\n
Here’s how world media reacted to the All Blacks vs Springboks series opener.<\/p>\n
The Telegraph’s post-match article describes the All Blacks victory as a “statement win”.<\/p>\n
“Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry did not begin with the year’s greatest game, but a New Zealand victory against the odds, at high altitude in Johannesburg, has poured intrigue and interest on to a series which was already brimming with them,” the article reads.<\/p>\n
It said the All Blacks win was almost as “comfortable as it was surprising”.<\/p>\n
“Wasteful” is how the online outlet Rugby 365 has described the Springboks performance.<\/p>\n
The Boks wasted several scoring opportunities throughout the game, which couldn’t be ignored.<\/p>\n
The article said that “proved costly as New Zealand took their chances to outscore the hosts by five tries to one”.<\/p>\n
Online outlet RugbyPass’ post-match article angles in on All Black Will Jordan, who said the victory “means everything”.<\/p>\n
“Serious shift of 80 minutes, love the way our boys just dug deep. Some guys playing here against the Springboks for the first time, got a taste of what it’s like.<\/p>\n
“Extremely proud of our whole group. We realise it’s just one of four, but an awesome start to us for the series.”<\/p>\n
“All Blacks punish Springboks” – a line from The South African newspaper.<\/p>\n
The paper’s post-match article focuses on the Springboks losing their World Rugby No 1 ranking.<\/p>\n
“The result not only gives the All Blacks the early advantage in the four-Test Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series, but also sees them move above South Africa at the summit of the world rankings,” the online paper wrote.<\/p>\n
It noted that the 17-point victory was New Zealand’s biggest-ever win over the Springboks at Ellis Park in South Africa.<\/p>\n
The next game between the two world-class teams will be played on August 29 at DHL Stadium in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand’s win – by a rather significant margin of 17 points – was dubbed “surprising” and “comfortable”,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-577283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577283","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=577283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}