Rassie Erasmus Says Springboks Ready to Decide Rugby Championship Title Ahead Argentina Showdown
The Springboks and Argentina will go head-to-head to decide the destiny of the 2024 Rugby Championship title this weekend.
The Springboks and Argentina will go head-to-head to decide the destiny of the 2024 Rugby Championship title this weekend.
The sides will clash at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit on Saturday.
Kick-off is at 17:00.
Lost top spot
The Springboks’ 29-28 defeat against Argentina in Santiago last weekend saw the world champions LOSE their top spot in the rankings to Ireland.
The one-point loss was enough to see the Springboks shed 1.81 ranking points and drop them to second place in the standings.
The Springboks now trail the Irish by 0.35 points.
Meanwhile, Argentina picked up a similar number of points and moved up a place to sixth ahead of Scotland.
Earlier in the day in the other Rugby Championship clash in Sydney, the All Blacks edged the Wallabies 31-28.
New Zealand picked up 0.45 ranking points, but remained in third place.
Australia, meanwhile, lost 0.45 points and slipped to 10th place after Fiji thrashed Eddie Jones’s Japan 41-17 to win the Pacific Nations Cup title.
Fiji picked up 1.21 ranking points and moved to ninth, while Japan dropped to 14th.
In the day’s only other match, Samoa beat the USA 18-13.
Samoa picked up 0.38 points and moved to 13th, swapping places with Japan, while the USA lost 0.38 points, but remained 19th.
WORLD RUGBY RANKINGS AHEAD OF THE WEEKEND
Rank | Country | Points |
1 | Ireland | 92.12 |
2 | South Africa | 91.77 |
3 | New Zealand | 88.70 |
4 | France | 86.96 |
5 | England | 85.40 |
6 | Argentina | 84.30 |
7 | Scotland | 82.82 |
8 | Italy | 79.98 |
9 | Fiji | 79.64 |
10 | Australia | 79.32 |
11 | Wales | 76.04 |
12 | Georgia | 74.10 |
13 | Samoa | 72.68 |
14 | Japan | 72.31 |
15 | Portugal | 70.61 |
16 | Tonga | 68.12 |
17 | Uruguay | 67.39 |
18 | Spain | 66.29 |
19 | USA | 65.70 |
20 | Romania | 62.62 |
Rugby Championship fixtures on Saturday, 28 September
New Zealand vs Australia, Welling ton – 09:05 (SA time)
South Africa vs Argentina, Nelspruit – 17:00
Pick your weekend winners!
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