The visiting All Blacks scored a late try to deny the Springboks a consecutive win at this venue, but Meyer felt that the result could have gone either way.
The coach, however, congratulated New Zealand on their win.
“I expected the match to be as tight as this. I thought we might have the luck with a TMO call in the second half, but like last weekend, it went against us. It is part of rugby, but I really thought we did enough to score there. That would have eased the pressure on us in the last couple of minutes as we would have had a ten point margin.”
Meyer lamented the number of injuries that dogged his team in the match. All of Jannie du Plessis, Vincent Koch, Lood de Jager and Francois Louw were invalided off to disrupt the Springbok pack and resulted in uncontested scrums being called by the referee, Jerome Garces.
“I support his call as both our tightheads were injured and the law has to be followed, as it is there to protect the players,” said Meyer. “It did come at a bad time for us though, as we were really scrumming well. We also lost Francois Louw at a crucial time, and we dominated the breakdowns at that stage.”
