{"id":8774,"date":"2012-03-10T15:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T13:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/rugby-last-minute-lealiifano-gives-brumbies-win-over-cheetahs\/"},"modified":"2012-03-10T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T13:02:15","slug":"rugby-last-minute-lealiifano-gives-brumbies-win-over-cheetahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-last-minute-lealiifano-gives-brumbies-win-over-cheetahs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Last minute Lealiifano gives Brumbies win over Cheetahs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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March 10<\/span> (Reuters) – Ice-cool Christian Lealiifano calmly
\nkicked a last-minute penalty to give the ACT Brumbies a 24-23
\nSuper Rugby victory over the Cheetahs in Canberra on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The South Africans led from the 18th minute – when Willie le
\nRoux scored a brilliant try from a set move – until the Brumbies
\ncentre slotted his fourth penalty from four attempts with the
\nhooter already having sounded.<\/p>\n

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Brumbies wingers Henry Speight and Pat McCabe also scored
\ntries either side of halftime to help give coach Jake White, who
\non Friday spurned England’s advances, a second victory in his
\nsecond match in charge.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Livewire winger Le Roux will count himself unlucky to be on
\nthe losing side after an impressive performance in which he also
\nplayed an integral role in scrum half Tewis de Bruyn’s second
\nhalf try to give his side a 20-10 lead.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Johan Goosen missed his first kick of the season when he
\ncame up short with a 62-metre effort in the second half but
\nconverted both tries and kicked three penalties, including that
\nwhich gave the Cheetahs a 23-10 lead eight minutes into the
\nsecond half.<\/p>\n

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“We’re not going to get a better chance to win a game than
\ntoday,” said captain Adriaan Strauss, whose team have now lost
\ntheir first three matches. “We had so many chances to win it so
\nonly have ourselves to blame.”<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The Brumbies had looked in for a reasonably comfortable
\nafternoon when scrumhalf Nic White’s searing break put the home
\nside deep inside Cheetahs territory and a long, flat pass from
\nthe breakdown allowed Fijian Speight to get over the line.<\/p>\n

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A superbly executed line-out move put the Cheetahs in front,
\nhowever, with prop Coenie Oosthuizen taking the overthrown ball
\nin open field and popping it inside to Le Roux who raced to the
\nline.<\/p>\n

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Le Roux’s break two minutes into the second half gave De
\nBruyn the opportunity to weave his way to the try line but
\nWallaby McCabe, playing his first match since the World Cup
\nsemi-finals, hit back by crossing 10 minutes later.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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March 10 (Reuters) – Ice-cool Christian Lealiifano calmly kicked a last-minute penalty to give the ACT Brumbies a 24-23 Super Rugby victory over the Cheetahs in Canberra on Saturday. The South Africans led from the 18th minute – when Willie le Roux scored a brilliant try from a set move – until the Brumbies centre […]<\/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-8774","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\/8774","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=8774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}