Eire may have harassed the necessity to tidy issues up on the break however have been rapidly on the backfoot when Bundee Aki was pinged on the breakdown. The Connacht centre admonishing himself after the whistle informed its personal story.
With half an hour remaining, Rassie Erasmus known as upon his famed ‘Bomb Squad’ from the bench, though their first involvement noticed Eire earn a scrum penalty.
Regardless of the continued slim nature of their benefit, it was nonetheless the Boks making use of the overwhelming majority of the stress with some well timed interventions from the likes of Caelan Doris and Josh van der Flier retaining Eire in contact.
That defensive work felt briefly all of the extra essential when, after the ball squirmed from a ruck spoiled by Aki, Lowe fended off Pollard and ran in for a strive.
The TMO, nonetheless, appropriately intervened to chalk off the rating after recognizing alternative hooker Ronan Kelleher taking part in the ball from his knees.
Pollard would miss the ensuing penalty, his third wayward effort off the tee, to maintain the margin at 5.
However South Africa nonetheless all the time felt the extra probably victors and would safe the sport’s key rating with 1 / 4 of an hour to go.
Frustratingly from Eire’s perspective, it got here from a Springbok error. After his forwards earned a scrum penalty, Pollard missed contact as Lowe flung the ball again infield.
It will bounce favourably, nonetheless, for Cheslin Kolbe who hacked ahead earlier than gathering to attain the primary factors of the second half.
With South Africa ending the sport with 14 males as Arendse was despatched to the bin, Eire pulled again inside a rating with 5 minutes to go when Conor Murray crossed the whitewash as Farrell’s facet attacked off a goal-line drop.
In a frantic end, South Africa answered again immediately after Lowe made a mistake on the restart and the house pack powered their approach to a penalty strive from a five-metre scrum.
There was simply sufficient time for the restart when alternative ahead Ryan Baird crossed within the nook within the final minute to deliver Eire again inside a transformed strive however they knocked on to finish the sport when attempting to rescue a draw from deep in their very own territory.
South Africa: W le Roux; C Kolbe J Kriel, D de Allende KL Arendse; H Pollard, F de Klerk; O Nche, B Mbonambi, F Malherbe; E Etzebeth, F Mostert; S Kolisi (capt), PS du Toit, Ok Smith.
Replacements: M Marx, G Steenekamp, V Koch, S Moerat, RG Snyman, M van Staden, G Williams, S Feinberg-Mngomezulu.
Sin-bin: Arendse, 73
Eire: J Osborne; C Nash, R Henshaw, B Aki, J Lowe; J Crowley, C Casey; A Porter, D Sheehan, T Furlong; T Beirne, J McCarthy; P O’Mahony (capt), J van der Flier, C Doris.
Replacements: R Kelleher, C Healy, F Bealham, J Ryan, R Baird, C Murray, C Frawley, G Ringrose.
Sin-bin: Kelleher, 78
Referee: Luke Pearce (England)
