South Africa vs Argentina

South Africa 38-21 Argentina: The Springboks needed to beat the Pumas by 40 points to snatch the Rugby Championship away from the All Blacks but fell just ...

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Following a 38-21 victory for South Africa over Argentina in their Rugby Championship clash, here's our five takeaways from the match in Durban.

Out of position, out of shape and out of gas, any suggestion of South Africa playing for the 39-point win they needed ended whenever the ball came his way. Now don’t think for one moment that we are criticising the actual cards, the key here is that there are far too many offences that now appear to warrant a sin-bin. Frustratingly, time and time again they conceded the same penalties: three for binding on the leg at maul time, four for collapsing the maul (and two penalty tries with matching yellow cards). Their defence at times was superb, they won the aerial battle and bossed the drop zone, but the hammering they took at scrumtime against a world-class set-piece simply meant that at every point of the match they were trying to play catch up rugby. But this weekend he turned up and turned up big time as his massive scrummaging performance was the key to the Bok win. At times, their rolling maul stuttered (especially when Eben Etzebeth was in the bin) and their lineout was less than its certain self, with a number of squint throws from Malcolm Marx resulting in turnovers.

Full result of Rugby Championship final round match between South Africa and Argentina at Kings Park in Durban on Saturday:

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Full result of Rugby Championship final round match between South Africa and Argentina at Kings Park in Durban on Saturday:

South Africa won the battle but lost the war following their 38-21 victory against Argentina at a sold out King's Park in Durban on Saturday, a result that ...

But we were able to score some points. Instead, Argentina ran them close in Durban but were once again let down by their ill-discipline as they received four yellow cards and conceded two penalty tries. "The way we started, it was slow.