England (6) 11 / Springboks (6) 21 (Final Score)
England hosted the Springboks at Twickenham at 16:30 SA Time. This is the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1, SuperSport HD & M-Net on TV in SA.
The Springboks came out firing in the forwards, dominating the forwards battle and scored 2 tries in the process, one a wonderful break by Lwazi Mvovo who gets his first international try.
The Springboks showed some guts and grit and determination and deserved their win, well done Bokke.
Scorers:
England: 2 Penalties Toby Flood, 1 Try Ben Foden
Springboks: 3 Penalties & 1 Conversion Morné Steyn, 1 Try Willem Alberts, 1 Try Lwazi Mvovo
Teams:
England: 15 Ben Foden, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Mike Tindall, 12 Shontayne Hape, 11 Mark Cueto, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Nick Easter, 7 Lewis Moody (captain), 6 Tom Croft, 5 Tom Palmer, 4 Courtney Lawes, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Dylan Hartley, 1 Andrew Sheridan.
Replacements: 16 Steve Thompson, 17 David Wilson, 18 Simon Shaw, 19 Hendre Fourie, 20 Danny Care, 21 Charlie Hodgson, 22 Matt Banahan.
South Africa: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Frans Steyn, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Juan Smith, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Victor Matfield (captain), 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Adriaan Strauss, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Willem Alberts, 20 François Hougaard, 21 Patrick Lambie, 22 Adi Jacobs.
Date: Saturday, November 27
Venue: Twickenham, London
Kick-off: 16.30 SA Time (14.30 GMT)
Expected weather: Very cold with wintry showers, which will lead to further accumulations of snow. High of 2°C and by kick-off it will be a chilly -1°C – although the windchill factor will take it down to at least -4°C.
Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Peter Fitzgibbon (Ireland), Simon Mcdowell (Ireland)
TMO: Iain Ramage (Scotland)
Bokke the better team, but they are making silly handling mistakes, man!
@ grootblousmile:
I just hope Div keeps the team together , you can clearly see they are not finding each other. Only proper match gametime will help them. Dont flokken replace for the sake of replacing, please
Half time. Dissapointing that we can’t finish off with 70% of the possession.
ou tatoo armpies het gese hy gaan hom laat geld in die game sover sluk hy sy woorde die stadige gif is besig om die souties se beentjies lam te maak
Scotland 13 – 13 Samoa 42′
Italy 18 – 16 Fiji 69′
I’m impressed with the Bokke forwards, all under the proverbial blanket…. and dominating everything.
Our breakdown possession is good, there is balance in the forwards… and in a game like this Stegmann comes into his own.
Ruan playing well, Jean is better that he was so far, Zane is bloody good…. Gio and Mvovo living on scraps but doing OK.
Fransie is terrible though!
Bokke the more dominant side in firts half. Just a little over eager at times, throwing 50/50 passes. We need more patience with ball in hand. England kept getting in the way though. They’re doing it the NZ way at the collisions namely get players stealing the extra yard by running past the tackle point and standing between the ball and the incoming support.
2nd Half on
Penalty Bokke…. 10m line, Morné will have the shot at goal.
Overrrrrrr
Bokke 9 / 6
Great tackle Mvovo
Bissie steals a vital ball.
Kirchner down injured
Wow, incredible defence by the bokke.
Italy 21 – 16 Fiji 75′
Scotland 13 – 13 Samoa 51′
Good defence overall by Bokke
Oi, Adi coming on, Fransie to move to fullback, Zane off
Good kick by Ruan with great pressure. Adi on for Zane.
Alberts also on, Stegmann off
Alberts on.
Zane showed the most explosive running of all the Boks so far, sorry to lose him now.
Bokke swing the scrum and turn the scrum over… hehehe
Ruan throws it skew AGAIN…. free kick Poms
Good pressure at the srum. England struggle to get first phase ball. Second penalty for scew srcum feed against Ruan. England trying to loosen the game up.
ek kyk die game op my laptop op supersport,die pom kommetaars is vrot.net n try bokke en die poms se wind is uit..
Jannie off, CJ on
Italy 24 – 16 Fiji Full time
England pushing us off the ball at the ruck. We need to settle down. Kick out and get the structure back.
Scotland 16 – 16 Samoa 58′
We are already missing Stegmans work on the lose balls
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