South Africa won an attritional contest, taking their opportunities to outscore the French four ties to three and set up a meeting with England at Stade de France on Saturday.
There were a raft of early second half changes that nullified France’s advantage after Eben Etzebeth was yellow carded and sent to the sin bin and allowed South Africa to turn the tide after France kicked a 54th minute penalty to go 25-19 ahead. South Africa’s replacements outmuscled the tiring French and after Etzebeth’s try they went ahead and held on in the end to extinguish home hopes.
Man-of-the match Bongi Mbonambi added:"All credit to the team, it was a whole team effort. We knew it wasn’t going to be easy playing the host team in their backyard with a sold-out crowd singing their national anthem the whole time.The Springboks now meet England back in Paris on Saturday.
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