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This Saturday, the fourth round of the 2024 Rugby Championship was played and a consolidated leader that is increasingly gaining ground on its pursuers: South Africa. The reigning world champions were stronger than New Zealand, beating them 18-12 (second consecutive win against the same rival), to stay at the top of the standings with a full record of victories and 18 points. The Pumas, for their part, showed their best form and beat Australia 67-27 to take revenge for last weekend’s defeat and climb to second place with 10 points. The All Blacks are third with seven, and the Wallabies are last with four.
In the first match of the day the Springboks, without playing too well and still with deficiencies in the fundamentals of the game that they handle so firmly, neutralized in their strong points by the All Blacksthey found a way to win to stay on the verge of winning the competition that brings together the powers of the Southern Hemispherea title they obtained only in the reduced version of 2019.
South Africa are unstoppable and are getting closer to the title; they have two games left against the PumasRODGER BOSCH – AFP
The team led by Felipe Contepomi, For its part, it invites us to dream. They came back from an adverse result that had them 17 points behind the Wallabies and they beat a tough rival. A festival that included nine tries and that became the largest victory in the history of the Pumas against a team from the Tier 1 and, at the same time, in their 13 years playing the Rugby Championship. The bonus win left Argentina with 10 points, eight less than South Africa, the rival in the last two matches of the tournament: on September 21 in Santiago del Estero and seven days later in Nelspruit. Argentina and the African team are the only teams left in the race for the title.
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*All times correspond to Argentina.
The Rugby Championship has been called that since 2012, when the Pumas began to participate. Since then there have been 11 tournaments -In 2020 it was called Tri Nations due to the absence of South Africa- and the All Blacks won ten. Australia and South Africa each have one star, which they achieved in 2015 and 2019, respectively, when the tournament had only one round (three matches) due to the development of the World Cups.
New Zealand is the biggest winner and the reigning champion of the Rugby ChampionshipHannah Peters – Getty Images AsiaPacLA NACIONGet to know The Trust Project
