Springboks Beaten By France In Nations Championship Thriller | Steven Kitshoff and Ben Youngs React

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Steven Kitshoff (1:26)

Pain in Paris for the Boks. It finished France 21, Springboks 19

My heart is broken. First half was all France. Second half was all Boks. We'll take you through that, but please hit that subscribe button. Millions of you watching the channel, most of you are not subscribed, so let's get those numbers up. Hit that button now. The show is brought to you by Pick and Pay ASAP. Ben, were you surprised? France barely won a line out, lost pretty much all the scrums, but still managed to pull off an incredible victory in Paris.

Ben Youngs (1:54)

First off, Kitsi, what a great test match.

It was brilliant. It lived up to the hype. Friday night, the best team in the world taking on the Six Nations champions. We don't get to see these two teams too often. France needed this. Psychologically, they needed to get over the Boks, and they did just about. It was an absolute cracker. You're right. No set piece. Like the scrum on skates, the scrum getting, the maul towards the end when Malcolm Marx crashes over. I mean, that's a half-back's nightmare, right? As your pack gets absolutely mullered and they roll around, there's juggernaut of six, seven charging towards you as a scrum half. You're thinking, they can just score. They can have that one. I'm not stopping it. Unbelievable power from the Boks. It was, but France found a way, Kitsi. And really, I think the big bit for South Africa will be the first half, right? Because second half, who was finishing the strongest? Without doubt was the Boks. They were finishing the strongest. France were getting twitchy. It was thinking, it's going to happen again. It happened last year in the autumn. And I was thinking, here comes the Boks power. But credit to France. They found a way. And even that last offensive set, I was super impressed. And the great man, Trev's mate, my favorite, Dupont, had an, he had an absolute worldy of a game. I thought he was, and I don't know what your thoughts were, Kitsi, obviously watching.

But from my perspective, obviously being a nine, or former nine, watching someone like that, re-announce himself in a game where you need your best players to stand up, he absolutely delivered. As did many of the South African players. I thought Peter Steffert-Toy was remarkable as well. But Antoine Dupont, what a performance from him.

Steven Kitshoff (3:28)

Yeah. And I think Gaultier pulled the wool over the entire rugby watching nation of South Africa's ice when he put Dupont in the 10 jersey. We thinking Luca is probably going to run at Scrum Off, and Dupont is going to be first receiver. And then all of a sudden, as game kicks off, would you see at Scrum Off as Dupont? So for me, no, he had a blinder. I mean, his kicking ability, the tactical play from the French using the nine as the pivotal role in where the attack goes, how they play. I mean, he was just incredible. Defensive efforts of Dupont, first of all, was something that stood out for me. Like he fronted up, he put his shoulder on big men. And then secondly, like him and Louis Belbaraix, just the telepathy to get that kick through off, I would say almost half a second of timing to put a kick through and score probably one of the tries of the nation's championship. So for me, yeah, take my hat off. I think Dupont was incredible and yeah, such a captain's knock. I mean, in such a big test match where almost you feel the fringe needs to get one over the Springboks before it leads into World Cup next year.