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Springboks too good for Scotland, keep world No 1 spot
Makazole Mapimpi of South Africa runs in to score against Scotland. Photo / Getty Images
Wing Makazole Mapimpi has scored a brace of tries as error-strewn South Africa defeated Scotland 32-15 in their Murrayfield Test with the help of forward power in a scrappy win.
The Springboks, who also scored tries through prop Thomas du Toit and No.8 Jasper Wiese, made 11 changes for Sunday’s match and looked disjointed, not helped by 21 handling errors that broke their momentum.
It was a ninth successive loss to South Africa for the Scots, but there will be aspects of their performance they will be pleased with, though they failed to take their chances in the visitors’ 22, with all their points coming from the boot of flyhalf Finn Russell.
South Africa next travel to Twickenham to play England on Saturday, while Scotland host Portugal on the same day.
“It was a tough Test match, Scotland are always difficult to play against and they gave us problems in the first half especially. The scoreline flatters us a bit, it was closer than that,” Springbok captain Eben Etzebeth said.
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