{"id":11289,"date":"2012-06-09T23:06:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/update-2-rugby-steyn-claims-17-points-as-s-africa-floor-england\/"},"modified":"2012-06-09T23:06:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:06:02","slug":"update-2-rugby-steyn-claims-17-points-as-s-africa-floor-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-rugby-steyn-claims-17-points-as-s-africa-floor-england\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Rugby-Steyn claims 17 points as S.Africa floor England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Springboks beat England 22-17 in Durban<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Seventeen points for flyhalf Steyn<\/p>\n<p> (Adds quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jason Humphries<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DURBAN, June 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa handed new coach<br \/>\nHeyneke Meyer a winning start with a 22-17 victory over England<br \/>\nin the first test on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Springboks turned in a dominant second-half performance<br \/>\nwith flyhalf Morne Steyn and new captain Jean de Villiers<br \/>\ncrossing for tries after Steyn and opposite number Owen Farrell<br \/>\nhad traded penalties to make the score 6-6 after 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hosts took control after the resumption and while winger<br \/>\nBen Foden scored a consolation try for England in the corner<br \/>\nwith time up on the clock, the result was never in doubt.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We knew England were going to be very well prepared and<br \/>\nthey are a very physical side,&#8221; Meyer told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were a few nerves at the beginning, with a new<br \/>\ncaptain and a few new players, but I was very happy with the<br \/>\nperformance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meyer had made no secret of his intention to implement a<br \/>\ngame plan built around powerful ball carriers and his team also<br \/>\nmade good use of the kick-and-chase tactic.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Springboks beat England 22-17 in Durban * Seventeen points for flyhalf Steyn (Adds quotes) By Jason Humphries DURBAN, June 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa handed new coach Heyneke Meyer a winning start with a 22-17 victory over England in the first test on Saturday. The Springboks turned in a dominant second-half performance with flyhalf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}