{"id":582846,"date":"2026-08-28T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/582846\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:40:09","slug":"sloppy-springboks-look-to-clean-up-mistakes-in-second-test-against-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/582846\/","title":{"rendered":"Sloppy Springboks look to clean up mistakes in second test against New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town \u2013 South Africa was beaten soundly in the opening fixture of its \u201cRugby\u2019s Greatest Rivalry\u201d series against New Zealand last weekend but is unlikely to be as error-prone again in the second test in Cape Town on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The world champion Springboks had the edge in the scrum battle, the contact area and under the high ball but, despite numerous entries into the All Blacks\u2019 22, scored one try as handling errors and poor decision-making proved to be costly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has not lost two games in a row since 2022, and has not done so at\u00a0home in 11 years, but now faces a New Zealand side that\u00a0came into the series as the underdog\u00a0but is now\u00a0full of confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Town \u2013 South Africa was beaten soundly in the opening fixture of its \u201cRugby\u2019s Greatest Rivalry\u201d series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[789,111,43,139,69,1468,1466,8137],"class_list":["post-582846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-all-blacks","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rassie-erasmus","tag-south-africa","tag-springboks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582846","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=582846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}