Ireland’s lineout failed and the Springbok’s place-kicking badly let them down
. However, there are many sore bodies in camp and two weeks to take a break, travel back to the team base in Tours and set up to meet Scotland is the way Andy Farrell would have wanted it to be.Eben Etzebeth of South Africa competes for lineout. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty
South Africa will look at their kicking and say they could have won the match had they been consistent. Ireland will look at their lineouts, especially in the opening quarter where Johnny Sexton kicked to touch to set up the attacking platforms. For that period Ireland had most of the territory but nothing to show for it and at one point in the match had won just two out of their seven throws. Ireland lost six in total.
Ireland will have to prepare for more of the same, of teams like South Africa cutting down their time as the tournament progresses. Ireland had their slowest ruck speed so far by some margin and represented the seventh slowest ruck speed of any team in any game . That showed the pressure South Africa were exerting at the breakdown, how fast they were closing space and hitting the rucks when ball carriers were going down.
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