There were plenty of changes in the World Rugby rankings after Round 5 of this year's Rugby Championship on Saturday.
There were plenty of changes in the World Rugby rankings after Round 5 of this year’s Rugby Championship on Saturday.There were plenty of changes in the World Rugby rankings after Round 5 of this year's Rugby Championship on Saturday. Image: SA Rugby websiteThe Springboks now trail the Irish by 0.35 points.Fiji picked up 1.21 ranking points and moved to ninth, while Japan dropped to 14th.
The first half was a riot of scoring as the Springboks took first blood to leap into a 17-0 lead in 13 minutes and then conceded 26 unanswered points in a blitzkrieg of four tries from the hosts in just 20 minutes. Two minutes later, left wing Matteo Carreras scampered down the flank after being given the overlap by fast hands and disconnected Bok defence and arguably then made a greater contribution when he was on the wrong end of an upright tackle by his direct opponent, Kurt-Lee Arendse, who was yellow carded for the third time in six matches this season.
They needed field position and a lift and it came on the stroke of half-time. A penalty allowed Pollard to drill to the corner and when the Pumas were penalised for collapsing the resulting maul, Reinach tapped, ducked and darted on a diagonal run to the corner for his 14th try and 36 tests.
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