{"id":964569,"date":"2024-07-06T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964569"},"modified":"2024-07-06T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T17:23:20","slug":"boks-beat-ireland-27-20-in-loftus-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/boks-beat-ireland-27-20-in-loftus-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Boks beat Ireland 27-20 in Loftus thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Champions the Springboks have beaten Ireland for the first time since 2016 with a hard fought 27-20 victory at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>With the world&#8217;s two top ranked teams battling it out, the encounter was not going to be anything short of a blockbuster.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s all over at Loftus in front of more than 50,000 fans, the Boks have beaten Ireland for the first time since 2016  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForeverGreenForeverGold?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ForeverGreenForeverGold<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Springboks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Springboks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RSAvIRE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RSAvIRE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nX7wb6IuLJ\">pic.twitter.com\/nX7wb6IuLJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Springboks (@Springboks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Springboks\/status\/1809635145810325724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Springboks got onto the scoreboard first with a converted Kurt-Lee Arendse try in the third minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish got a penalty shortly after to reduce the gap to four points.<\/p>\n<p>The more the 50 000 strong crowd had a lot to cheer, with the Boks going into the break 13-8 in front.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually the World Champions\u00a0scored two tries and a penalty try to Ireland&#8217;s three tries.<\/p>\n<p>Although flyhalf Handre Pollard missed three kicks at goal, he was successful with two conversions and two penalties that mattered in the end. It was the Springboks&#8217; first victory over Ireland in eight years, breaking a run of three successive defeats, including one at last year&#8217;s World Cup in France.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boks going into the break 13-8 in front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":964570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[740],"class_list":["post-964569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-the-springboks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}