‘We shot ourselves in the foot,’ says Springbok skipper Du Toit after Ellis Park defeat
” New Zealand captain Ardie Savea, who was also playing his first game of the tour after being given extra time off after the Nations Championship, looked absolutely spent but very happy with his team’s performance.
In the post-match on-field interview Du Toit was frank with his assessment of the game, and explained that they now had to go back to the drawing board.
The Boks were the better team over the first 55 minutes of the match, but somehow found themselves trailing at that point, and then produced a disastrous and ill-disciplined final 20 minutes that allowed the All Blacks to pull away emphatically.
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