South Africa vs Wales LIVE rugby: Result and reaction as Josh Adams try and Gareth Anscombe conversion make history
Follow all the reaction from Bloemfontein as Wales beat the Springboks on South African soil for the first time
Replacement fly half Gareth Anscombe kicked a late conversion from the touchline as Wales claimed their first ever away victory in South Africa with an error-strewn 13-12 success over a much-changed Springboks at the Free State Stadium.
Wing Josh Adams crossed for the only try of the game with two minutes left on the clock, leaving Anscombe with a difficult conversion to win the game, but he landed the ball through the centre of the posts to make history for Wayne Pivac’s side.
Stand-in captain Handre Pollard kicked four penalties for a Boks side that had 14 changes in their starting XV from the first test win and never found any fluency in a game where they mostly dominated territory until the final 10 minutes.
The third and deciding test in the series will be played in Cape Town next Saturday.
Follow all the reaction below with our live blog:
New Zealand 0-10 Ireland, 18 minutes
Penalty to Ireland where the ball landed, which is deep in New Zealand territory. To the corner they go for a lineout, and a maul...
Which New Zealand stall! Excellent set-piece defence from the All Blacks, bringing it down legally and ensuring the ball won’t come back. It’ll be the hosts’ scrum feed, and that’s three points turned down by Ireland...
YELLOW CARD! Leicester Fainga’anuku is sent to the sin bin! New Zealand 0-10 Ireland, 17 minutes
It’s yellow! That’s a little bit reckless from Fainga’anuku, and though the crowd boo as he is sent from the field for ten minutes, you’d suggest it was closer to red than just a penalty. Very clumsy.
TMO check! New Zealand 0-10 Ireland, 17 minutes
It is a leaping Leicester Fainga’anuku who lands on Hansen, jumping to try and block the kick ahead but then doing little avoid a collision. There’s head contact.
New Zealand 0-10 Ireland, 17 minutes
Ooh! Mack Hansen kicks ahead and is rather nastily collided with by a New Zealand body. Hansen stays down - and TMO Tom Foley calls down to Jaco Peyper, suggesting the referee takes a look. There’s blood on the Ireland wing’s face...
New Zealand 0-10 Ireland, 15 minutes
The All Blacks are intent to play from deep but their runners are struggling to make significant, consistent dents. Eight phases inside their own half come to little before Barrett looks to the air, weighting his high bomb close to perfectly and allowing Leicester Fainga’anuku a chance to challenge. He times his leap well but can’t quite clutch a fast-falling ball, knocking on.
New Zealand 0-10 Ireland, 14 minutes
Ireland again get their restart set-up slightly wrong, with Peter O’Mahony forced to arch backwards in the air to take a floated kick from Beauden Barrett. Good hands from the Ireland blindside.
PENALTY! New Zealand 0-10 IRELAND (Johnny Sexton penalty, 13 minutes)
39 metres, just outside of the right-hand upright, but nothing to unduly trouble Johnny Sexton, who has started this game well.
New Zealand 0-7 Ireland, 12 minutes
Another very pleasant picture at scrum-time, Ireland getting a late nudge on but New Zealand able to play away. Rieko Ioane makes a half-break up the left, but Ireland drag him down. There is quick ball, but Brodie Retallick is isolated as he carries and Caelan Doris is expertly over the ball, two arriving All Blacks unable to shift the limpet, who earns a holding on penalty.
Johnny Sexton gestures for the uprights.
New Zealand 0-7 Ireland,11 minutes
Ireland penalty, then, and a return to advanced territory. That’s a nice set-piece variation, too, feigning the maul after the lineout and sending Dan Sheehan looping around the pack, the hooker feeding Robbie Henshaw on an unders line. Alas, the Irish centre can’t quite gather as he seeks a soft shoulder - knocked on.
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