Australia vs South Africa LIVE: Rugby Championship result and final score as Springboks beat Wallabies

The Independent

·3 September 2022

Australia vs South Africa LIVE: Rugby Championship result and final score as Springboks beat Wallabies

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Teenager Canan Moodie scored a try on debut as the Springboks snapped a nine-year losing streak on Australian soil with a 24-8 victory over the Wallabies in a sometimes tempestuous Rugby Championship test on Saturday.

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Centre Damian de Allende, flanker Franco Mostert and winger Makazole Mapimpi also crossed to help the world champions get back to winning ways after two straight defeats and gatecrash the opening party at the re-built Sydney Football Stadium.

Australia, having named an unchanged starting side for the first time in three years, suffered another rash of injuries but were inaccurate in their play all evening and slumped to a fourth defeat in seven matches this year.

The bonus point victory elevated the Springboks to second place in the championship standings behind reigning champions New Zealand, who beat Argentina 53-3 in Hamilton earlier on Saturday, with two rounds of the championship remaining.

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New Zealand crush Argentina in Rugby Championship revenge to end All Blacks’ losing streak

Beleaguered head coach Ian Foster finally found some relief and even hope in his home town of Hamilton where the All Blacks snapped a historic losing streak by beating Argentina 53-3 in a Rugby Championship test on Saturday.

The seven tries to nil win in wet conditions reversed the result of last weekend’s test which the Pumas won 25-18, ended an unprecedented run of three home defeats and brightened the All Blacks recent record of only three wins from their last nine tests.

Foster probably would have been clinging by a thread to the head coaching role if the All Blacks had lost again at the Waikato Stadium where Foster played many of his 148 games for Waikato province. He also played for and coached the Hamilton-based Chiefs in Super Rugby.

Saturday’s match was a homecoming for Foster and he found safe harbor in Hamilton, calm in the storm which has engulfed New Zealand rugby as the All Blacks have stumbled through the worst losing streak in their history.

Harry Latham-Coyle3 September 2022 13:02

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Rivals on the field, friends off it

It looked at various points during South Africa’s win over Australia like both sides were perfectly prepared to tear chunks out of one another, but all is fair in love and rugby.

Harry Latham-Coyle3 September 2022 13:00

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F/T: Australia 8-24 South Africa

That South Africa win leaves the Rugby Championship table deliciously poised ahead of the final two rounds. New Zealand’s sizeable win over Argentina earlier has lifted them to the top of the step-ladder, but just a single point separates all four teams. It’s wonderfully tight.

Harry Latham-Coyle3 September 2022 12:45

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F/T: Australia 8-24 South Africa

Australia never quite found their way into the contest. South Africa had the better of the physical battle virtually from the off and any hopes of a comeback were rather ended by the losses of Hunter Paisami and Noah Lolesio to injury either side of half-time.

Harry Latham-Coyle3 September 2022 12:41

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