LIVE: All Blacks vs. Springboks

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48′ Player substituted – Damian de Allende , South Africa 48′ Substitute on – Elton Jantjies , South Africa 48′ Player substituted – Owen Franks , New Zealand 48′ Substitute on – Ofa Tuungafasi , New Zealand 44′ South Africa now lead by 14 points, and they’re looking good — especially with the offensive driving tackles. New Zealand more than anyone can scores back-to-back tries quickly, but they’re under a bunch of pressure here and they’re making errors in execution and decision-making. 44′ South Africa now lead by 14 points, and they’re looking good — especially with the offensive driving tackles. New Zealand more than anyone can scores back-to-back tries quickly, but they’re under a bunch of pressure here and they’re making errors in execution and decision-making. 43′ 17-31 Conversion – Handre Pollard , South Africa 42′ Incredible. Aaron Smith takes a quick tap and go, and they try to go wide but Cheslin Kolbe intercepts a pass from Anton Lienert-Brown and canters clear to score untouched. 42′ 17-29 Try – Cheslin Kolbe , South Africa 41′ Player substituted – Lukhanyo Am , South Africa 41′ Substitute on – Cheslin Kolbe , South Africa 41’+1 17-24 End of first half 41’+1 17-24 Penalty goal – Handre Pollard , South Africa 40′ We’re back under way, and South Africa make a great exit from the kick-off. Solid, structured start to the second stanza from South Africa. Aphiwe Dyantyi collects and up and under but the pass goes loose. 40′ We have a Test Match. What a turnaround. New Zealand led 12-0 and looked set to record a runaway victory, but South Africa dug in and scored three tries to stun the hosts and their fans. Steve Hansen will be disappointing with some of the decisions in the final 15 minutes of the first half, and no doubt he’ll be preaching the need to execute basic skills. Perhaps his players got ahead of themselves at 12-0 given the shape of the game at that point. South African must continue to do what they did in the final 25 minutes of the stanza, and they know surely that the ABs will return with a renewed intensity.

40′ New Zealand show their mentality by continuing to play after the siren, but they spill the ball forward under pressure and then concede a kickable penalty. 40′ 17-24 Start of second half 38′ 17-21 Try – Rieko Ioane , New Zealand 37′ Rieko Ioane walks over for his third try against South Africa to cap a period of sustained New Zealand pressure. 33′ 12-21 Conversion – Handre Pollard , South Africa 32′ 12-19 Try – Malcolm Marx , South Africa 31′ New Zealand now have to show their mental strength as well as their undoubted skills to recover a nine-point deficit. South Africa have really stepped up having trailed 12-0 and looked in danger of ignominy. 31′ South Africa are over again, with Malcolm Marx touching down after a driving maul from a lineout. The atmosphere has changed substantially in Wellington. 29′ South Africa bust the New Zealand line, with Steven Kitshoff impressive, but they can’t create space and New Zealand effect a turnover with a strong counter-ruck before conceding a penalty for hands in the same ruck. 28′ And now New Zealand are making errors – Beauden Barrett overkicking his kickpass to Ryan Crotty. South Africa lineout just outside the 22, and the Boks have an opportunity to pressure the All Blacks defence. 26′ 12-14 Conversion – Handre Pollard , South Africa 25′ 12-12 Try – Willie Le Roux , South Africa 24′ 24′ Oh, my. Willie Le Roux is over under the posts. Brilliant work to effect a turnover and Willie Le Roux kicks behind the line. Aphiwe Dyantyi collects and kicks ahead under pressure from Beauden Barrett, Ball goes for a lineout, which Jordie Barrett takes quickly, but Le Roux anticipates the long pass and intercepts to score. Amazing tun of events. 21′ There was a sense that South Africa had to be next to score, as New Zealand looked “on” while the Boks were looking tired having been asked to make three times as many tackles in the opening quarter of the match – missing 10. They now need to hang tough and courageous on defence. 21′ 12-7 Conversion – Handre Pollard , South Africa 20′ 12-5 Try – Aphiwe Dyantyi , South Africa 19′ Brilliant response from South Africa. Simple football to get over the gainline and then Malcolm Marx and Willie Le Roux combine to put Aphiwe Dyantyi over the line.

18′ 12-0 Conversion – Beauden Barrett , New Zealand 16′ 10-0 Try – Aaron Smith , New Zealand 15′ Magnificent try from New Zealand, set up by a beautiful no-look pop pass from Codie Taylor. Ben Smith looping round scythed into space and Aaron Smith runs a wonderful support line to take the pass and skip over. 12′ Willie Le Roux spills the ball in contact while trying to find Aphiwe Dyantyi. South Africa trying to push passes that don’t need to be made. They’re clearly feeling pressured even though just five points behind. Need to do the basics and get a foothold. 9′ Brilliant counter from New Zealand, after effecting a turnover when Eben Etzebeth tries to recycle. Scythed through the defence on the right, with Ben Smith brilliant, and Anton Lienert-Brown is stopped just short by scrambling defence. Brilliant from New Zealand, but South Africa recovered well to prevent the score. 7′ Kieran Read brilliant over the ball to effect a turnover for NZ, and they launch an immediate counter that comes to nought when Rieko Ioane can’t grab a pass that goes behind him. 7′ New Zealand knock on from the kick-off under pressure. South Africa have their first territory of the game. 5′ No defence there to stop Jordie Barrett after a little pop pass from his brother. Great handling from the All Blacks in the lead-up tho that score. Nothing wrong with the D; just tremendous attacking skills from NZ.

5′ 5-0 Try – Jordie Barrett , New Zealand 3′ Solid, offensive defence early from the Boks. Generally stopping the All Blacks hard and behind the gainline. 2′ New Zealand awarded a penalty after Eben Etzebeth took out Aaron Smith, and New Zealand kick for an attacking lineout inside the 22. 1′ And we’re underway with Handre Pollard kicking off for South Africa. And he’s overcooked it. Kicked it dead. Scrum back on halfway. 1′ So it’s Ka Mate. The original. A mark of respect. 1′ Beautiful rendition of both anthems. Plenty of passion. Now for the Haka. Interesting to see which is rolled out given the media talk this week about a diminished rivalry between the teams. 1′ South Africa simply must execute better than they did against Argentina and Australia. They also need to play from the opening whistle and continue for 80 minutes. And they must muscle up in defence. And look to go forward before going wide. Do that, and they and their fans likely will be happy whatever the result. 1′ 1′ 1′ Hello and welcome to our Live Text Commentary for the opening game of The Rugby Championship round four, between New Zealand and South Africa in Wellington.

There’s been a few newslines this week after the All Blacks survived a stern challenge from Argentina in Nelson in round three while the Springboks lost to Australia in a turgid, mistake-riddled affair in Brisbane.

The week began from a Springboks point of view with head coach Rassie Erasmus saying his future depended on the result vs. All Blacks; interesting given he’s also the Director of Rugby. As if that weren’t interesting enough assistant coach Matt Proudfoot said that transformation and Rugby World Cup preparations were the priority over short-term results.

Meanwhile, Steve Hansen had a little fun, as he likes to do, by
suggesting the Boks were favourites for the game.

Here’s our preview of the game, with John Goliath believing that a snowball stands a better chance in hell than the Boks hold in Wellington.

1′ 0-0 Start of first half
This article was originally published by Espn.co.uk. Read the original article here.
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