{"id":92236,"date":"2025-12-01T05:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/etzebeth-sent-off-south-africas-triumph-marred-by-red-card-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T05:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:52:08","slug":"etzebeth-sent-off-south-africas-triumph-marred-by-red-card-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/etzebeth-sent-off-south-africas-triumph-marred-by-red-card-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Etzebeth sent off: South Africa&#8217;s triumph marred by red card"},"content":{"rendered":"South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus acknowledged that the red card shown to Eben Etzebeth, who came on as a substitute, was deserved after a controversial action against Alex Mann.\n\nThe world champions put on a crushing performance, scoring 11 tries and leaving Wales in a difficult situation at the Principality Stadium.\n\nThe end of the match had a bitter taste for South Africa, as Etzebeth was sent off in the last minute.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1129%2Fr1582384_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Eben Etzebeth de Sud\u00e1frica fue expulsado por una acci\u00f3n pol\u00e9mica.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\nErasmus commented on it: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what I can say that isn&#8217;t controversial. It didn&#8217;t look good.&#8221;\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It was a justified red card. Definitely not the way we would have liked to end the game. The image was not the best.<\/p><cite>Rassie Erasmus<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nErasmus also expressed hope for the future of Wales, recalling his participation in South Africa&#8217;s record 96-13 victory against them in Pretoria in June 1998, and how a year later he was on the losing side of the Springboks in Cardiff.\n\n&#8220;I&#8217;m referring to &#8217;98 and &#8217;99 because it shows that things can change rapidly,&#8221; added Erasmus.\n\n&#8220;They have support here, and if they can start to have a good streak, things will change.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus acknowledged that the red card shown to Eben Etzebeth, who came on as a substitute, was deserved after a controversial action against Alex Mann. The world champions put on a crushing performance, scoring 11 tries and leaving Wales in a difficult situation at the Principality Stadium. The end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[10856,10857,1369,6393],"class_list":{"0":"post-92236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-eben-etzebeth","9":"tag-gouging","10":"tag-red-card","11":"tag-south-africa"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}