Italy keep control to master South Africa

By DAVID ROBSON

South Africa ...26 Italy ................. 34
Italy produced a superb display of wet weather rugby to stun hosts South Africa. On a pitch that had become heavy going after incessant driving rain all day, Italy used their driving maul to devastating effect to secure a famous bonus-point victory.
It was a contrastof styles as South Africa played the more adventurous rugby but Italy’s pragmatic approach was better suited to the conditions with all four of their tries coming from pick-and-drive attacks.
Having gone 17 points down in the first 24 minutes – and 19 points adrift...

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