Northern Edition

Select Edition

Northern Northern
Southern Southern
Global Global
New Zealand New Zealand
France France

Match Highlights - Scotland vs South Africa

Handre Pollard of South Africa during the Castle Lager Outgoing Tour match between Scotland and South Africa at BT Murrayfield on November 17, 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Steve Haag/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

The Springboks have come away with a hard-fought 26-20 win over Scotland at Murrayfield on the back of a man-of-the-match performance by flyhalf Handre Pollard.

ADVERTISEMENT

The 24-year-old had a personal haul of 18 points, scoring one try, two conversions and three penalty goals. South Africa’s captain Siya Kolisi praised Pollard’s game, saying it is getting better and better.

“Each game he is getting better, he is one of the leaders in the team, he helps me with a lot of things and we are really proud of him.”

“Today was very tough, all credit to Scotland. You can see with their record, they’ve only lost one out of 10 games. We knew how big a challenge it was.

“We focused really hard and worked on all the things that didn’t go right last week. We made a couple of plans and we stuck to them and I think we managed the period when Willie le Roux was in the sin-bin quite well.

The loss ends Scotland’s undefeated streak at home at 2018.

“It’s quite frustrating. We couldn’t really generate the speed of ball in the second half, but you have to credit South Africa and the way they defended,” captain Greig Laidlaw said post-match.

They couldn’t capitalise on multiple opportunities inside the five, turning down shots at goal to try a lineout maul which the Springboks dismantled. Laidlaw admitted that in the end, that may have cost them.

ADVERTISEMENT

“Potentially, yes, but you have got to be brave to win Test matches. We had enough opportunities to put points on the board off the back of that. We just needed to execute.

“They went and scored again anyway so we’d have probably needed to score again ourselves.

“We are disappointed, but we need to look at ourselves and make sure we generate quick ball.”

ADVERTISEMENT

LIVE

{{item.title}}

Trending on RugbyPass

Comments

0 Comments
Be the first to comment...

Join free and tell us what you really think!

Sign up for free
ADVERTISEMENT

Latest Features

Comments on RugbyPass

J
JW 33 minutes ago
'Let's not sugarcoat it': Former All Black's urgent call to protect eligibility rules

Yep, no one knows what will happen. Thing is I think (this is me arguing a point here not a random debate with this one) they're better off trialing it now in a controlled environment than waiting to open it up in a knee jerk style reaction to a crumbling organtization and team. They can always stop it again.


The principle idea is that why would players leave just because the door is ajar?


BBBR decides to go but is not good enough to retain the jersey after doing it. NZ no longer need to do what I suggest by paying him to get back upto speed. That is solely a concept of a body that needs to do what I call pick and stick wth players. NZR can't hold onto everyone so they have to choose their BBBRs and if that player comes back from a sabbatical under par it's a priority to get him upto speed as fast as possible because half of his competition has been let go overseas because they can't hold onto them all. Changing eligibility removes that dilemma, if a BBBR isn't playing well you can be assured that someone else is (well the idea is that you can be more assured than if you only selected from domestic players).


So if someone decides they want to go overseas, they better do it with an org than is going to help improve them, otherwise theyre still basically as ineligible as if they would have been scorning a NZ Super side that would have given them the best chance to be an All Black.

147 Go to comments
TRENDING
TRENDING Watch: Aaron Smith sets up ex-NRL star Joseph Manu for debut try in Japan Watch: Aaron Smith sets up ex-NRL star Joseph Manu for debut try
Search