The Boks were just too strong for the Irish and especially dominated the scrums.
South Africa powered to a thrilling 24-13 win against Ireland at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on Saturday for their first win at the ground since 2012.
The Boks had lost three matches in a row at the stadium, but delivered a knockout performance on Saturday to hand their coach Rassie Erasmus his first win against Ireland in Ireland.
The world champions are still unbeaten on tour of the north this month after earlier beating Japan, France and Italy. They face Wales next weekend.
In a thrilling match, the Boks got on top quickly and especially dominated the scrums, winning several penalties to put the Irish under huge pressure. At one stage Ireland were down to playing with 12 players, after losing men to the bin, while James Ryan was red carded for a shoulder charge on Malcolm Marx.
While the Irish had their moments, especially in the final 10 minutes, the Boks were on top for most of the match but were unable to convert all the chances, and 22m entries, they created.
The match lasted longer than two hours such was the stop-start nature of it. There were six yellow cards handed out in addition to the red card.
Damian Willemse, Cobus Reinach and Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu scored tries for the Boks, while they were also awarded a penalty try.
Dan Sheehan scored Ireland’s only try.
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Teams
IRELAND – 15 Mack Hansen, 14 Tommy O’Brien, 13 Garry Ringrose, 12 Bundee Aki, 11 James Lowe, 10 Sam Prendergast, 9 Jamison Gibson-Park, 8 Caelan Doris (c), 7 Josh van der Flier, 6 Ryan Baird, 5 Tadhg Beirne, 4 James Ryan, 3 Tadhg Furlong, 2 Dan Sheehan, 1 Andrew Porter. Bench: 16 Ronan Kelleher, 17 Paddy McCarthy, 18 Finlay Bealham, 19 Cian Prendergast, 20 Jack Conan, 21 Craig Casey, 22 Jack Crowley, 23 Tom Farrell.
SPRINGBOKS – 15 Damian Willemse, 14 Canan Moodie, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Cheslin Kolbe, 10 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, 9 Cobus Reinach,
8 Jasper Wiese, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Siya Kolisi (c), 5 Ruan Nortje, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Thomas du Toit, 2 Malcolm Marx, 1 Boan Venter. Bench: 16 Johan Grobbelaar, 17 Gerhard Steenekamp, 18 Wilco Louw, 19 RG Snyman, 20 Kwagga Smith, 21 Andre Esterhuizen, 22 Grant Williams, 23 Manie Libbok.
