{"id":170808,"date":"2025-11-09T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/170808\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:38:08","slug":"fourteen-man-south-africa-dig-deep-to-humble-france-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/170808\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen-man South Africa dig deep to humble France \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">World champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/springboks\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/springboks\/\">South Africa<\/a> recovered from 14-6 down and the sending-off of powerhouse lock Lood de Jager to overpower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/france-rugby\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/france-rugby\/\">France<\/a> 32-17 in a bruising Autumn international on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">France cracked completely under pressure as their discipline disintegrated, throwing away an early lead despite the Springboks being reduced to 14 men on the stroke of halftime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two years after their agonising 29-28 World Cup quarter-final loss to the Springboks on home soil, Les Bleus appeared poised for revenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Still without injured captain Antoine Dupont, France looked irresistible early on as winger Damian Penaud scored twice to become his country\u2019s all-time leading try scorer with 40, surpassing Serge Blanco\u2019s long-standing record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A succession of reckless infringements and a costly yellow card, however, handed the initiative to the Springboks who punished every mistake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">South Africa fought back with tries from Cobus Reinach, Andre Esterhuizen, Grant Williams and Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, who also slotted two penalties and three conversions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall  b-it-article-body__copyright\">(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World champions South Africa recovered from 14-6 down and the sending-off of powerhouse lock Lood de Jager to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,34134,19,17,132,4389],"class_list":{"0":"post-170808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-france-rugby","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-springboks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115517659725966993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}