Badly started after two defeats against South Africa and Argentina, New Zealand came from afar to win the Rugby Championship 2022, thanks to their bonus victory against Australia on Saturday in Auckland on the 6th and final day. (40-14). They are one point ahead of South Africa, which for its part dominated Argentina (38-21) on Saturday in Durban, without managing to win with the offensive bonus and without the 39 points difference. necessary to clinch his first Championship since 2019.
Despite a large domination, and a gap in the score amounting to more than 17 points, the South Africans never seemed able to fulfill these two sine qua non conditions to double the Blacks in the standings. Returning to the score, the Argentines even jostled the Boks, who finally secured victory on a penalty try (73rd), before increasing the gap to the score after the siren thanks to Kurt-Lee Arendse (80 + 1st) , without managing to take the bonus. Find the summary of this match in video.
