Springboks smash England and leave Eddie Jones fumbling for answers a year out from World Cup
Marcus Smith launched a punt to land just outside the South Arrica 22, but Damian Willemse, his opposite number at fly-half, accepted it as an invitation to attack and feed Willie le Roux inside him as Jack van Poortvliet put in a tackle.
England had done well to hold up a South Africa line-out drive earlier in the first half but they were racking up penalties under pressure, in at the side of mauls and so on. But the next score was a second drop goal by Willemse, for 17-3, followed by a costly and crass penalty conceded by England’s big lock Jonny Hill, for hauling Faf de Klerk away from a ruck.
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