South Africa vs Italy live: Latest score and updates as Springboks bid to seal series – UK Times

There’s a scuffle here and the referee is checking the replays for any card offences…

Le Roux collects the long kick and takes the line-out quickly, launching another Boss attack, but the Italians win it back. The two sides exchange kicks before Le Roux places a perfect flat kick to give the visitors a line-out .

South Africa win the scrum and spread it wide.

The long pass skips two men and comes wide to van der Merwe right on the wing and he’s under pressure, though he crosses the line. But has he gone into touch before grounding it?

He hasn’t! It’s fine, and a second try of the game for the hosts.

Libbok misses the conversion again.

The referee is trying to get the message across to Italy’s players regarding the concession of penalties. There could be a yellow soon.

The Springboks have won the scrum on the Italy five-metre line.

It’s brilliant from the hosts, who win the scrum in their own half. They work it through the hands and van der Merwe gets the first break through the Italian defence. He makes up plenty of ground before shipping it wide, and it comes back inside off the wing to Williams, who crosses for the first score of the game!

Libbok goes narrowly wide with the conversion.

Le Roux gets his hands on the ball for the first time but he’s unsure what to do and ends up knocking it on!

Scrum to Italy, but they make little of it and it goes to the Boks.

Stop-start in the opening stages here.

The scrum turns to an Italy penalty, and it’s launched into touch.

There’s a brilliant atmosphere at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium!

The hosts win possession and spread it wide before winning a penalty at the breakdown.

They kick to touch for the line-out on the 22, and Wiese powers through before du Toit is held up over the line.

The referee reviews it and Wiese is penalised for the knock-on. We’ll have a scrum on the Italy five-metre.