{"id":22118,"date":"2013-08-25T13:50:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/springboks-rally-to-beat-argentina-in-rugby-championship\/"},"modified":"2013-08-25T13:50:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:50:26","slug":"springboks-rally-to-beat-argentina-in-rugby-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/springboks-rally-to-beat-argentina-in-rugby-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Springboks rally to beat Argentina in Rugby Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=14436\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14436\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14436 \" alt=\"Springboks rally to beat Argentina. Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/2ce57_00167483-image-600x338.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Springboks rally to beat Argentina. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>South Africa survived a scare as they came from behind to secure a 22-17 win over Argentina in the Rugby Championship on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Springboks had demolished Argentina in their opening game \u2013 cruising to a 73-13 win \u2013 but they found Santiago Phelan\u2019s team to be much tougher opposition in this encounter at Estadio Malvinas Argentinas.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina surged ahead in the first minute, flanker Juan Manuel Leguizamon crossing for a try from a line-out close to the South Africa line before Felipe Contepomi added the extras.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa responded with a Morne Steyn penalty seven minutes later, but Contepomi restored the seven-point advantage with the boot shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>It did not take long for South Africa to draw level, though, winger Bjorn Basson going over in the corner before Steyn tied things up with a conversion.<\/p>\n<p>But Phelan\u2019s charges refused to lie down and regained the lead four minutes before the interval as centre Marcelo Bosch barged over four minutes before the interval.<\/p>\n<p>Steyn cut the visitors\u2019 deficit on the stroke of half-time with another penalty and <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/springboks-dont-cry-for-argentina\/\" target=\"_blank\">it was the fly-half who proved to be the key figure in the second period<\/a>. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportal.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sportal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Springbok news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/springboks\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/springboks-dont-cry-for-argentina\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/01685_194655888_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/springboks-dont-cry-for-argentina\/\" target=\"_blank\">Springboks don\u2019t cry for Argentina<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/argentina-opens-rugby-championship-campaign-without-lobbe\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/01685_193646106_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/argentina-opens-rugby-championship-campaign-without-lobbe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Argentina opens Rugby Championship campaign without Lobbe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/01685_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springboks rally to beat Argentina. Photo: Getty Images South Africa survived a scare as they came from behind to secure a 22-17 win over Argentina in the Rugby Championship on Saturday. The Springboks had demolished Argentina in their opening game \u2013 cruising to a 73-13 win \u2013 but they found Santiago Phelan\u2019s team to be [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22118","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\/22118","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=22118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}