{"id":103628,"date":"2015-10-31T07:07:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T05:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/103628\/boks-secure-third-place-with-victory-over-pumas\/"},"modified":"2019-09-18T02:55:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:55:24","slug":"boks-secure-third-place-with-victory-over-pumas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/10\/31\/boks-secure-third-place-with-victory-over-pumas\/","title":{"rendered":"Boks secure third place with victory over Pumas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Malcolm Maifala, Alberton Record<\/h6>\n<p>Although it was not the outcome the Springboks were hoping for when they arrived in England, they managed to regroup after their semi-final defeat to New Zealand and win a bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>The Springboks did not take long to record a score when they put points on the board with a try from JP Pietersen in the first five minutes of the game. With Pollard displaying great form in the first half, his 11 points helped the Springboks to a 16 &#8211; 0 lead at the end of the first half.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now that&#39;s what we call a selfie. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RSA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uHuxYWWmgC\">pic.twitter.com\/uHuxYWWmgC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rugby World Cup (@rugbyworldcup) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rugbyworldcup\/status\/660243684164820993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n<p>The Argentinians struck back with a drop goal from Sanchez early in the second half, however, the Springboks swiftly replied with a try from Eben Etzebeth, which ultimately secured a victory for the South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>The Pumas were rewarded with a try in the last minute of the game after their continued attack in the second half, although it was a little too late.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The match was potentially was the last for players such as Victor Matfield, Schalk Burger and Bryan Habana; all of whom have represented South Africa with distinction over the years.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Rugby World Cup will be decided on Saturday October 31 when New Zealand take on Australia at 18:00.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='2085c4d650d6232e13ee83bf1a4d5c28'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boks now hold a third-place ranking in world rugby and automatic qualification to the next Rugby World Cup tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":103629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":".","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8428,3],"tags":[5531,1122,7566,8510,1767],"class_list":["post-103628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sports-news","tag-argentina","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-rwc","tag-springboks"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Rugby World Cup"},"tag_labels":["argentina","rugby","Rugby World Cup","RWC","springboks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}