{"id":6651,"date":"2025-09-06T18:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/new-zealand-holds-off-south-africa-close-battle-in-auckland\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:05:28","slug":"new-zealand-holds-off-south-africa-close-battle-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/new-zealand-holds-off-south-africa-close-battle-in-auckland\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand holds off South Africa close battle in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">AUCKLAND &ndash; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand stayed firm at its Eden Park fortress to claim an attritional 24-17 win over South Africa in a heavyweight clash between the world&rsquo;s top two rugby sides on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Under pressure after conceding a first-ever defeat on Argentina soil against the Pumas two weeks ago, the All Blacks responded with a performance of grit and discipline to stretch their unbeaten run at their Auckland stronghold to 51 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Two well-taken tries by Emoni Narawa and Will Jordan set up a 14-3 lead at halftime before Quinn Tupaea grabbed a third 5-pointer for the hosts 13 minutes from time in the rainy Rugby Championship blockbuster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>New Zealand holds off South Africa close battle in Auckland<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUCKLAND &ndash; New Zealand stayed firm at its Eden Park fortress to claim an attritional 24-17 win over South Africa in a heavyweight clash between the world&rsquo;s top two rugby sides on Saturday. Under pressure after conceding a first-ever defeat on Argentina soil against the Pumas two weeks ago, the All Blacks responded with a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/new-zealand-holds-off-south-africa-close-battle-in-auckland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;New Zealand holds off South Africa close battle in Auckland&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}