U20 World Championship: South Africa 33 Georgia 27

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by

Ross Barnett

Ireland’s next opponents, South Africa, stumbled to a 33-27 victory over Georgia in the opening round of the World Rugby U20 Championship 2018 in Stade Aimé Giral, Perpignan.

South Africa opened the scoring inside 10 minutes through before Georgia’s touched down after a lovely dink from .

scored for South Africa before intercepted a stray pass to give the Georgians a 17-12 lead at the interval thanks to 2 conversions an a penalty from

and crossed within ten minutes of the restart to send the 2012 winners into a 26-17 lead.

Uys scored his second try shortly before the hour mark while a second Aprasidze penalty and a try gave Georgia a glimmer of hope nine minutes before the end.

Match gallery below.

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