Springbok Player Ratings | RSA v NZL
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Springbok Player Ratings | RSA v NZL
Rassie Erasmus and the Springboks win the Freedom Cup for the first time since 2009 by beating the All Blacks twice in a row during the Rugby Championship in South Africa.
Table Mountain provided the backdrop to this thrilling test that was sealed by a late Malcolm Marx try. Here are the Springbok player ratings.
- Ox Nche 7
Decent outing with a solid scrum as usual, he offered a bit more with four passes and a defender beaten - Bongi Mbonambi 6
Struggled again with some wayward line outs - Frans Malherbe 7
Didn't win any scrum penalties but a vital cog in the Springbok machine - Eben Etzebeth 7.5
Huge effort by the soon to be most capped Springbok. - Ruan Nortje 8
Most tackles in the game by the Bulls lock, he was busy - Siya Kolisi 8.5
Amazing performance by the Springbok captain who was hard working - Pieter-Steph du Toit 8.5
Fantastic 80 minutes topped off with the match winning line out steal - Jasper Wiese 7
Won a turnover and had a solid game - Grant Williams 7
Second ever start and had a good outing - Handre Pollard 7
Did well to keep control the game - Cheslin Kolbe 8
Always looking for work and so dangerous with ball in hand - Damian de Allende 8.5
Man of the Match and massive outing in front of his home crowd - Jesse Kriel 8
Great defence again from the 13 and stopped plenty of attack - Canan Moodie 4.5
Tough outing in his first game back, missed a number of tackles and didn't get into the game - Willie le Roux 6.5
Came into the game well on attack but got binned for what could be considered a try saving attempted intercept.
- Malcolm Marx 8
- Gerhard Steenekamp 7.5
- Vincent Koch 7.5
- Kwagga Smith 7.5
- Elrigh Louw 7.5
- Jaden Hendrikse 7.5
- Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu 8
- Lukhanyo Am 7.5
