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South Africa trounce pointless Wales in record defeat
What was he thinking when he jammed his thumb into the eye of Alex Mann with three minutes remaining. South Africa are easily the best team in the world and are a joy to watch. But Etzebeth let his country and himself down very badly.
Match details
Scoring sequence: 0-5 Steenekamp try (8), 0-7 Feinberg-Mngomezulu con (9), 0-12 Hooker try (13), 0-14 Feinberg-Mngomezulu con (14), 0-19 Wiese try (30), 0-21 Feinberg-Mngomezulu con, 0-26 Louw try (42), 0-28 Feinberg-Mngomezulu con (43), 0-33 Van Den Berg try (43), 0-35 Feinberg-Mngomezulu con (44), 0-40 Feinberg-Mngomezulu try (46), 0-42 Feinberg-Mngomezulu con (47), 0-47 Moody try (49), 0-49 Feinberg-Mngomezulu con (50), 0-54 Esterhuizen try (53), 0-59 Feinberg-Mngomezulu try (63), 0-61 Feinberg-Mngomezulu con (61), 0-66 Nortje try (68), 0-68 Feinberg-Mngomezulu con (69), 0-73 Eztebeth try (74).
Wales B Murray (B Thomas, 65); E Mee, J Roberts, J Hawkins, R Dyer; D Edwards (C Sheedy, 49), K Hardy (R Morgan-Williams, 49); G Thomas (D Southworth, 49), D Lake, K Assiratti (C Coleman, 46; Assiratti, 61), B Carter, R Davies (J Ratti, 60), T Plumtree, A Mann, A Wainwright (M Morse, 42-49).
Replacement B Coghlan.
Yellow cards Plumtree (42), Wainwright (53).
South Africa D Willemse; E Hooker, D de Allende, A Esterhuizen, C Moodie; S Feinberg-Mngomezulu, M van den Berg (C Reinach, 51); G Steenekamp (Z Porthen, 51), J Grobbelaar (B Mbonambi,51) , W Louw (A Ntlabakanye, 51), J Kleyn (K Smith 51), R Nortje, S Kolisi (M van Staden, 51), F Mostert (E Etzebeth, 51), J Wiese (B-J Dixon, 51).
Red card Estebeth (78).
