{"id":113307,"date":"2021-08-07T19:50:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113307"},"modified":"2021-08-07T19:57:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:57:52","slug":"shock-recall-kicks-boks-to-lions-series-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113307","title":{"rendered":"Shock recall kicks Boks to Lions series victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa won the series against the British and Irish Lions 2-1 after winning a gripping third Test 19-16<\/a> with a 79th-minute penalty by Morne Steyn on Saturday (Sunday AEST).<\/p>\n

Steyn clinched their last series in 2009 with a penalty and was seemingly recalled to haunt the Lions in another series decider. He hadn't played a Test since 2016. <\/p>\n

But his experience and temperament came to the fore after being sent on in the 65th minute for flyhalf Handre Pollard, who had missed two consecutive penalties.<\/p>\n

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Steyn tied the score with his first penalty kick and after Finn Russell levelled for the Lions in the 75th with his third penalty kick, they conceded a penalty under pressure in the 78th within kicking distance. <\/p>\n

Scrumhalf Herschel Jantjies had a rush of blood with a quick tap but referee Mathieu Raynal brought him back for not tapping from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n

Steyn coolly slotted the 34m winning shot.<\/p>\n

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The Lions deservedly led at half-time 10-6 after their second try of the series, but South Africa went ahead with a converted try by Cheslin Kolbe. Russell and Steyn traded penalties to leave the Boks in front at 16-13.<\/p>\n

The Lions had another kickable penalty soon after but elected to go for a try, not interested in drawing a series as they did in New Zealand four years ago. But replacement prop Mako Vunipola was held up over the line then South Africa received a relieving scrum penalty.<\/p>\n

The Lions failed for the first time to win a series in South Africa after winning the first Test.<\/p>\n

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South Africa won the series against the British and Irish Lions 2-1 after winning a gripping third Test 19-16 with a 79th-minute penalty by Morne […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113309,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113307\/revisions\/113309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}