Handre Pollard scores crucial penalty to set up Rugby World Cup final against New Zealand
, without ever scaling the heights they did in beating France a week ago simply because it took so much out of them, had to draw deep on their vast reserves of character and belief to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in reaching another final.next Saturday night despite trailing from the third to the 78th minute, thanks to a try from Munster lock RG Snyman and then both a nerveless conversion and unerring, 78th minute, 50-metre penalty by Handre Pollard.
In the first half, there were 36 kicks from hand , 20 set pieces and 13 penalties, and around half a dozen injury “timeouts” nearly all of them by England, as they slowed the game to a trickle and were happy to have a stop-start game even more than the Springboks. Libbok did open their account with a confidently and well-struck penalty but after Courtney Lawes brilliantly beat Libbok to a loose pass on the ground from Damian Willemse, Farrell made it 9-3 and after a skewed kick Libbok was replaced by Handre Pollard in the 31st minute.
South Africa held a 4-1 record over England in World Cup meetings, including wins in all three knock-out ties, namely in the 1999 quarter-finals, and 2007 and 2019 finals. Nor had England led South Africa at half-time in a World Cup match, while the team that have been ahead at half-time have won 10 of the past 11 matches since 2012, with England salvaging a 14-14 draw in Port Elizabeth after trailing 9-8 at the break.
The introduction of Kyle Sinckler for Cole, in a reverse from the final four years ago, did listen to stem a now equally dominant Boks’ scrum, which gave them vital sustenance. Pollard nailed a fourth successive scrum penalty from halfway to within five metres of the corner flag,
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