Cobus Reinach has credited the Springbok forward pack for spearheading a hard-fought win over Argentina in the Rugby Championship at Twickenham on Saturday.

The nuggety scrumhalf scored two of the Boks’ four tries in their 29-27 championship win over a passionate Los Pumas team, who scored in injury time to narrow the points gap to just two. But by then, it was too little too late.

“We haven’t ever won it back-to-back, so doing this showed a lot of character from the team,” Reinach said.

“We’re still growing, there are still a lot of improvements to make but we’re slowly getting there. We’re building and building.”

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The new Stormers recruit says they expected a response from Argentina and knew they were going to push until the final whistle.

“You’re not just going to come out here and run over any team in the world anymore. We have to break teams down, and it takes some teams 50, 60 or 70 minutes and Argentina – credit to them – they’ve been unreal, they have a lot of dog in them and similar to us, they don’t stop and just keep fighting.”

It was by no means a fluid performance from the Boks, but Reinach says despite its scrappy nature, the forwards laid the foundation for victory.

“It’s probably one of the best jobs in the world to play behind a pack like that. They do all the hard work and we’ll give them a lot of beer tonight.”

It is South Africa’s sixth Tri-Nations/Rugby Championship title in the competition’s 29-year history.

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