{"id":31847,"date":"2026-07-06T21:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nations-championship-de-allende-and-willemse-in-man-of-the-match-mix-up\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:58:15","slug":"nations-championship-de-allende-and-willemse-in-man-of-the-match-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nations-championship-de-allende-and-willemse-in-man-of-the-match-mix-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations Championship: De Allende and Willemse in man of the match mix-up"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Springboks’ Damian Willemse missed out on the player of the match award for <\/b>his stellar performance in Saturday’s win over England<\/b><\/a> – after the local South African broadcaster mistakenly handed it to his team-mate Damian de Allende instead.<\/b><\/p>\n

On his 50th Test appearance, Willemse was superb at full-back, excelling in the air, kicking a brilliant 50:22, making more metres than any other home player and knitting together the world champions’ attack.<\/p>\n

While the Supersport television commentary team picked Willemse as their player of the match, the message was not communicated properly to pitch-side producers at Ellis Park, with De Allende posing for the presentation and carrying out the obligatory accompanying post-match interviews.<\/p>\n

The error did not seem to dampen South Africa’s celebrations, with De Allende and Willemse posing together to mark the latter’s half century of appearances.<\/p>\n

South Africa take on Scotland on Saturday in Pretoria with Willemse having taken the rested De Allende’s place at inside centre.<\/p>\n

BBC Sport contacted Supersport for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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