Head coach Bafana Nhleko bemoaned the Junior Springboks’ error fee and never maintaining the strain up of their U20 Rugby Championship defeat in opposition to Australia on Tuesday.
The match was but once more performed at a moist Sunshine Coast Stadium, the place the Junior Boks confirmed preventing spirit till the ultimate whistle regardless of a crimson card within the first half, and a yellow card in direction of the tip of the encounter.
Australia led 10-7 on the break, however the South Africans took a 14-10 lead, solely to see the hosts hit again rapidly to retake the lead. Australia gained 24-19, with a mixture of unforced errors and ill-discipline costing the younger males in inexperienced.
“The disappointing factor is that we truly managed to construct strain at occasions, however then persistently launched that strain,” Nhleko stated.
“As [captain] JF [van Heerden] stated, we performed in opposition to ourselves however honest credit score to Australia for capitalising on our errors and their set piece ascendancy.
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“It was irritating that we managed to get ourselves into the correct areas of the sector, however we let ourselves down with our execution. We don’t need it to be a recurring theme, so we have to get it proper.”
A crimson card for prop Mbasa Maqubela within the twentieth minute for charging right into a ruck didn’t help South Africa’s trigger, whereas Bathobele Hlekani was yellow carded for infringing a rolling maul, which additionally resulted in a penalty attempt for the Aussies.
“Australia took their alternatives and deserved to win, however the playing cards had the impact that our pack performed for about half-hour with seven gamers, which clearly harm us by sapping our power,” Nhleko added.
“We can have a great evaluation, and as a lot as we’re disillusioned with tonight’s final result, I do imagine the gamers have the talent and talent in comparison with what we noticed right now. We’ve to search out the character to indicate it in opposition to Argentina. Right now was a troublesome expertise, however we’ll choose ourselves up and put together for Argentina.”
The Junior Boks play Argentina of their remaining fixture on Sunday. New Zealand, in the meantime, beat the Pumitas on Tuesday to maneuver to the highest of the log.
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