{"id":2644,"date":"2014-06-09T18:23:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T11:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2014-06-09T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T11:23:57","slug":"england-suffer-painful-late-defeat-against-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/rugby\/england-suffer-painful-late-defeat-against-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"England suffer painful late defeat against New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England slipped to a painful late defeat in their first Test against New Zealand knowing that a glorious opportunity to topple the world champions had eluded them.<\/p>\n<p>It took a 78th-minute try from Conrad Smith to complete a 15th successive victory for the All Blacks, whose two-decade triumphant run at Eden Park continues.<\/p>\n<p>Freddie Burns landed four penalties and Danny Cipriani kicked three points to keep England in the hunt until Smith dived over in the right corner.<\/p>\n<p>England had Marland Yarde in the sin-bin at the time and will feel a sense of grievance from the overall performance of referee Nigel Owens.<\/p>\n<p>The score was locked at 9-9 until the 64th minute as the outstanding Burns and Aaron Cruden exchanged penalties in a desperately tight 13th showdown between the rivals in New Zealand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/new-zealand-v-england-england-slip-to-painful-late-defeat-in-first-test-9505640.html\" title=\"Read more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Rugby News &#8211; New Zealand vs England &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/rugby\/\" title=\"Rugby\">Rugby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England slipped to a painful late defeat in their first Test against New Zealand knowing that a glorious opportunity to topple the world champions had eluded them. It took a 78th-minute try from Conrad Smith to complete a 15th successive victory for the All Blacks, whose two-decade triumphant run at Eden Park continues. Freddie Burns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[803,795,796,794,799,797,111,790,791,798,800,346,792,804,30,801,802,1268,305,114,120,80,188,793],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-aaron-cruden","tag-all-blacks","tag-all-blacks-rugby","tag-conrad-smith","tag-danny-cipriani","tag-eden-park","tag-england","tag-england-rugby","tag-first-test-against-new-zealand","tag-freddie-burns","tag-marland-yarde","tag-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand-rugby","tag-new-zealand-vs-england","tag-news","tag-nigel-owens","tag-referee-nigel-owens","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-world-champions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}