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For the record, no side has ever come back to win a Rugby World Cup match having trailed by 14 or more points at half-time.

But records are there to be broken, right?

Hugh Smith: Can you imagine a footballer who is so tall that he has to bend over to look the ref in the eyes and saying "sorry sir"?

iLanga Project: My favourite game...ancestry versus birth.

Peebs: Duncan Weir needs to keep the ball in hand. His tactical kicking certainly isn't up to scratch at the moment.

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South Africa's best 40 minutes of the World Cup so far? I certainly think so.

Head coach Heyneke Meyer will be a happy man looking at this scorecard.  

A final Scotland attack of the half, but Greig Laidlaw is stopped from going to ground and the clock ticks red, allowing referee Nigel Owens to bring to a close the first 40 minutes.

The officials have been kept busy so far. The five white and red circles represent the penalties South Africa have conceded, the four black and red circles are Scotland's penalties conceded.

And it was Scotland who did indeed infringe attempting to scamper back in that last passage of play, so South Africa head to touch...

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Scotland are into South African territory, switching the ball from side to side, asking their forward pack to move them inches, metres up the field.

But now it's stolen, and the Springboks are streaming forward... But then Duane Vermeulen's pass to Bryan Habana is wayward and the Scots escape.

Breathless stuff.

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It was a long, long way out for Greig Laidlaw - so much so that it was a touch out of his range, and his kick falls slightly short.

What can Scotland muster here, with five minutes or so to go to half-time?

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Ah, that doesn't look too pretty from South Africa tight-head prop Jannie du Plessis, who came flying into that last ruck without wrapping his arms and subsequently clattering Fraser Brown on the bonce. A sore one.

He'll spend the next 10 minutes in the bin, Greig Laidlaw will go for goal...

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Scotland centre Richie Vernon's receiving some treatment now, as is back-rower Blair Cowan. This has been a bruising 33 minutes for the Scots.

Now, we're heading to the television match official for an incident off the ball. What have we got here then?...

A Springboks charge is never far away though, up to the 22. Great hands from the forwards too, before Lood de Jager punches a little hole in the Scottish defence - but his good work is undone when Tendai Mtawarira comes off his feet and concedes a penalty.

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And the Gloucester scrum-half lands the kick, so South Africa's lead is cut to 10 points.

Scotland do have their hands on the ball now though, just inside Springboks territory, and the South Africans infringe at the breakdown.

Greig Laidlaw will attempt the three-pointer - and they could really do with this going over to provide some encouragement.

The green triangles represent the line-outs won for South Africa. The red one is the one they have lost.

It came after 23 minutes and that is the first set-piece they have lost in the entire competition.

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Handre Pollard splits the posts from right in front and the lead stretches yet further.

Scotland have spent little more than 6% of the match inside South Africa's 22.

A cracking little teaser forward from South Africa full-back Willie le Roux turns his opposite number Stuart Hogg, but his return kick only invites the Springboks to come forward again.

They're 10 metres out in the blink of an eye - and they'll have a penalty too.

The two backlines trade a couple of kicks, before wing Tim Visser belts it out of play.

Now, Stuart Hogg breaks from inside his own 22 but then captain and scrum-half Greig Laidlaw is penalised for crossing. If it could go wrong for Scotland at the moment, it's going wrong.

But did I speak too soon? The Scots steal the line-out this time - the first that South Africa have lost in this tournament.

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Steven Kinghan: Nice to see the home team winning at St James Park for once!

Peebs: Horrific by the TMO! Double movement, whose hands, knock on? Obviously don't think about any of those issues!

Andrew Priestley: Willie Le Roux is SA's most dangerous player, he's a world-class version of Stuart Hogg. Watch him explode into life this evening.

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It's not looking overly promising just yet, is it?

Scotland do, however, have a line-out on this near side after JP Pietersen's kick goes straight out of play... But it's stolen again!

Eben Etzebeth and Lood de Jager are absolutely monstrous in that department. The two packs go to battle again.