{"id":20396,"date":"2025-09-28T15:29:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/south-africa-67-30-argentina-springboks-return-to-top-of-rugby-championship\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:29:44","slug":"south-africa-67-30-argentina-springboks-return-to-top-of-rugby-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/south-africa-67-30-argentina-springboks-return-to-top-of-rugby-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa 67-30 Argentina: Springboks return to top of Rugby Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“We just wanted to play good rugby – put the work we have done in training into the game.”<\/p>\n

Feinberg-Mngomezulu scored two tries in the first half, but the hosts led by only two points at half-time.<\/p>\n

Malcolm Marx scored South Africa’s other first-half try, but Argentina countered with a score from Santiago Chocobares, who walked the ball between the posts after an inexplicable mistake from winger Cheslin Kolbe, and a penalty try.<\/p>\n

Fly-half Santiago Carreras added a conversion and three penalties to keep Argentina in contention.<\/p>\n

But South Africa pulled away in the second half as Kolbe, Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Pieter-Steph du Toit, Morne van den Berg and Manie Libbok went over in front of a raucous 45,000-strong crowd.<\/p>\n

A bonus-point win next week would secure South Africa a third Rugby Championship in its current format, but they will win the title if Australia beat New Zealand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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“We just wanted to play good rugby – put the work we have done in training into the game.” Feinberg-Mngomezulu scored two tries in the first half, but the hosts led by only two points at half-time. Malcolm Marx scored South Africa’s other first-half try, but Argentina countered with a score from Santiago Chocobares, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20398,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396\/revisions\/20398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}