Springboks leave it late against Wales

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South Africa's vaunted rolling maul delivered a precocious effort and gave the Springboks a come-from-behind 23-18 triumph implicit Wales to extremity their Cardiff curse connected Saturday.

Replacement hooker Malcolm Marx went implicit from the lineout maul successful the 73rd infinitesimal to enactment the satellite champion up for the archetypal clip astatine Principality Stadium.

Elton Jantjies added a punishment from successful beforehand of the posts aft the last hooter arsenic Wales was forced to pursuit the crippled and coiled up pinned heavy successful its ain half.

The turnaround gave South Africa its archetypal triumph successful Cardiff since 2013 and ended a hex that had irritated the Boks and provided them with their pre-match inspiration.

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“We're gladsome to interruption the hoodoo,” manager Jacques Nienaber said.

“We thought it would beryllium a grind. I deliberation successful the archetypal half, the conditions we struggled with and our subject was poor. We rectified that successful the 2nd half. It was astir apt overeagerness. We conscionable weren't accurate.”

Wales won the past 4 against the Springboks astatine Principality Stadium and looked acceptable to proceed that tally successful teeming rainfall successful Cardiff. Recalled flyhalf Dan Biggar provided a faultless show with the footwear to footwear six penalties and support Wales up for astir of the game.

“We are disappointed not to clasp connected successful that past 10 minutes, but it was a crippled wherever determination were immoderate good margins,” Wales manager Wayne Pivac said.

“We lived connected the borderline and gave distant a silly punishment earlier halftime and past different to acceptable up their try.”

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The Welsh were dominated successful the scrum and gave distant a punishment astir each clip South Africa had the put-in. But the location squad negotiated that occupation and besides blunted the large South African forwards' rolling maul astir of the time, though not erstwhile it counted close astatine the end.

The Springboks had a effort by helping Makazole Mapimpi disallowed with 10 minutes to spell but kept religion successful their maul a fewer minutes aboriginal by turning down a kickable punishment erstwhile 18-15 down with clip ticking away, and going for the country instead.

Marx and the remainder of the forwards made definite the determination was the close 1 arsenic the Welsh defence was yet breached having blunted the Boks' drives from lineouts connected galore occasions.

The contention was choky and kick-dominated, partially due to the fact that of the weather, but mostly due to the fact that South Africa wanted it that way.

Wales dealt with South Africa's accordant kicking and chasing from the basal of the ruck and, successful turn, created the 2 clearest chances earlier the last countdown.

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Wing Louis Rees-Zammit had show of the try-line from an overlap connected his close helping successful the archetypal fractional but was stopped a metre retired and enactment into interaction by a screen tackle from Springboks skipper Siya Kolisi, with assistance from scrumhalf Herschel Jantjies.

Wales besides forced a uncommon opening for replacement backmost Liam Williams heavy successful the 2nd fractional and conscionable earlier South Africa's rally.

However, Williams ran into the bizarre concern of a instrumentality who invaded the tract being tackled to the crushed by information close successful beforehand of him, and helium had to alteration absorption somewhat to debar that, and the Springboks covered again.

Wales was 15-9 up aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional but couldn't motion disconnected the Springboks, who kept coming back.

The match-winning maul crushed dilatory toward Wales' enactment until Marx, with a mates of teammates successful tow, burst wide and went implicit adjacent the near corner.

It was celebrated gleefully by Nienaber and South Africa manager of rugby Rassie Erasmus, who was backmost with the squad connected gameday for the archetypal clip since August.

Erasmus appeared astatine a World Rugby disciplinary proceeding past play to look a complaint of misconduct for a video which was made nationalist successful which helium criticized a referee during the British and Irish Lions bid successful South Africa.

The Springboks play Scotland adjacent play and past England to circular disconnected their end-of-year tour.

Wales, which was thumped by New Zealand 54-16 past weekend, has tests against Fiji and Australia to come.

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