{"id":221231,"date":"2019-10-21T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T07:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/221231\/watch-south-africa-ends-japans-world-cup-dream\/"},"modified":"2019-10-21T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T07:07:33","slug":"watch-south-africa-ends-japans-world-cup-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2019\/10\/21\/watch-south-africa-ends-japans-world-cup-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: South Africa ends Japan&#8217;s World Cup dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus admits that the entire team was nervous going into the quarterfinal clash with the Rugby World Cup hosts Japan.<br \/>\nIt was an edgy, nervous start for the Springboks in the first half, ultimately their power game and consistency came to the fore and led to their victory, beating Japan\u00a026-3.<\/p>\n<p>Japan coach Jamie Joseph admitted his dissatisfaction for his players as their World Cup journey came to an end against the Springboks on Sunday, 20 October 2019.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Japan tuned up their pace with quickfire play at the set pieces and great well-weighted cross kicks. Ultimately, their tricks didn\u2019t work as the Springboks defence crushed their momentum.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa will be facing Wales in the semi-finals on Sunday 27 October at 11:00.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\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='87401c0a5f1d903cf6ffedeba758b8bf'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Springboks bludgeoned past hosts Japan 26-3 to book a World Cup semi-final with Wales. Japan head coach, Jamie Joseph said he was proud of his players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8284,"featured_media":221232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8428,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sports-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Rugby World Cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221231","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\/8284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}