Overview

• South Africa overturned a 13–3 deficit at Twickenham through set-piece dominance, with Cobus Reinach and Malcolm Marx scoring two tries each.
• An early yellow card to Canan Moodie helped Argentina seize the lead, before Mayco Vivas’s second-half sin-bin opened the door for the Springboks’ surge.
• New Zealand beat Australia 28–14 in Perth to set the target, but South Africa’s superior points differential (+57 to +8) sealed the title.
• Late Argentine scores from Bautista Delguy and Rodrigo Isgro, plus a long Santiago Carreras penalty that struck the post, narrowed the margin without changing the outcome.
• The match, officially a Pumas home fixture, drew a crowd of about 70,000 at Twickenham that was largely pro–South Africa.