Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus lamented a late missed penalty in his team's narrow Rugby Championship loss to Argentina.
The Boks raced into a 17-0 lead but trailed at half-time and then failed to close out the game in Santiago on Saturday.
While Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus didn’t want to put the blame on Manie Libbok for the team’s 29-28 Rugby Championship defeat to Argentina in Santiago on Saturday, he admitted afterwards that had the replacement flyhalf’s last-gasp penalty succeeded “we’d be sitting here all smiles”. With one round to be played, with the Boks and Argentina meeting in Mbombela this coming Saturday, the world champions have 19 log points, to Argentina’s 14.after conceding four tries in a horror 20-minute spell.“It’s a bad one to lose. The game shouldn’t have gone down to the wire, with one man having to kick it over,” said a disappointed Erasmus afterwards, referring to Libbok’s missed penalty.“Not just for us to win the game, but for him personally … I was hoping he’d kick it over.
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