{"id":21978,"date":"2013-08-18T01:27:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T23:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/springboks-dont-cry-for-argentina\/"},"modified":"2013-08-18T01:27:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T23:27:23","slug":"springboks-dont-cry-for-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/springboks-dont-cry-for-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Springboks don\u2019t cry for Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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English: South African rugby union player Fourie du Preez during 2007 Rugby World Cup quater-final against Fiji, that taken place in Marseille. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p>\n

The Springboks got their Rugby Championship campaign off to a good start by trouncing Argentina 73-11 at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Boks were rampant as they scored nine tries to one for their biggest winning margin over the South Americans to sound a warning that they want to stake a claim for the title in this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n

They were not only impressive on attack but deprived Los Pumas of possession, while their defensive line proved to be impenetrable.<\/p>\n

The match, played as part of the Nelson Mandela Sport and Culture Day<\/a>, had little entertainment value in the opening 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

However, Springbok flyhalf Morne Steyn converted two penalties in this period to hand his side a six-point lead.<\/p>\n

At the quarter-hour mark Argentine captain Felipe Contepomi added to the scoreline with a successful conversion.<\/p>\n

The two placekickers exchanged two more penalties between them, with only three points separating the two sides.<\/p>\n

However, the momentum swung in the hosts\u2019 favour when a deliberate knock down by hooker Eusebio Guinazo metres from the line earned him a yellow card and a penalty try against his team.<\/p>\n

Steyn converted the try to extend the Boks\u2019 lead to 10 points after 27 minutes of play.<\/p>\n

The try sparked the Boks into action as they added another five-pointer six minutes later when JJ Engelbrecht fielded a Willie le Roux grubber kick to canter through for the try.<\/p>\n

Steyn converted and added another penalty conversion in the 38th minute which saw the Boks go into the change room leading 26-6.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the restart the Boks showed their intent with a driving maul from a lineout that saw Adriaan Strauss crossing the whitewash for the their third try of the match, with Steyn converting.<\/p>\n

Four minutes later Willem Alberts scored the Boks\u2019 bonus-point try, while captain Jean de Villiers added the fourth a minute later as he intercepted an Argentine ball from the kickoff to find an open goalline, with Steyn converting both tries.<\/p>\n

Playing in his first match in more than a year<\/a>, Fourie du Preez also got onto the score sheet in the 62nd minute.<\/p>\n

In the 66th minute Bryan Habana scored the team\u2019s seventh try to bring up their 66th point in the match, with only six points against them.<\/p>\n

Four minutes before the end of the match Bismarck du Plessis closed South Africa\u2019s try-scoring account, with Steyn finding his target once again.<\/p>\n

The Argentineans had the final say of the match as Contepomi got over the whitewash to add some respectability to the score sheet. \u2013 Sapa<\/a><\/p>\n

Read this for more news on the Springboks and Argentina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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English: South African rugby union player Fourie du Preez during 2007 Rugby World Cup quater-final against Fiji, that taken place in Marseille. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Springboks got their Rugby Championship campaign off to a good start by trouncing Argentina 73-11 at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday. The Boks were rampant as they […]<\/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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/21978","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=21978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}