While it looked like it could end in a desperate draw with ten minutes to go, it ended up being a jam-packed encounter. Mike Greenaway looks at three talking points from the match. Springboks RSAvBIL LionsRugby IOLSport
When the Lions played South Africa A, Cheslin Kolbe confirmed his reputation as the best attacking player in the world with a blistering try. But that also meant he would be a marked man going into the Test series.
There will never be another Bakkies Botha, but neither will there be a carbon copy of Eben Etzebeth. In 2009, Bakkies put a Lion in hospital with a perfectly legal clean-out but the sheer physicality frightened the officials into banning him for the third Test. Etzebeth enforces the law of the jungle with similar authority. In perpetually bordering on assault with his deadly weapons he is the pillar of the pack.
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