In the Rugby World cup South Africa secured 3rd place win a win over Argentina at the Olympic stadium in London. Following their shock opening game defeat to Japan, the Springbok's finish is a good recovery from what was described as one of the biggest upsets in sport, however that will be little consolation for head coach Heyneke Meyer and his team.

South Africa go in front on 5 minutes. JP Pieterson gets on the end of a free flowing move on the right flank to touch down to makes the try. 7 nil his team lead following a successful conversion.

fly-half Handre Pollard would score 3 penalty kicks to put his team up 16 nil at the break.

Into the second half now and on 41 minutes Argentina finally get on the score sheet with this tremendous long range drop kick from Nicolas Sanchez. 16 - 3.

But the 2007 champs reply 60 seconds later when Eben Etzebeth is the beneficiary of some slick Springbok passing. They fail to make the conversion, but are in front 21 to 3.

South Africa would ease to victory, but not before Juan Pablo scrapes over the line to score this try with 10 minutes to go. He makes the conversion as well. 24 13 is how it finishes in the last international for veteran South African captain Victor Matfield.

After that Japan game, something special happened with this team. I have been in a lot of teams when the campaigns finishes - if you are successful or not successful - there isn't a real unity. We somehow built a brotherhood in this team and it's just fantastic. It's something that I can us in my future," Matfield said.