"We were thoroughly beaten" - Rassie Erasmus reflects on loss to All Blacks

The Boks conceded five tries to one in a performance that Erasmus said needed to have "a lot of things put right."

Erasmus said the Springboks contributed to their defeat by the number of errors they committed, induced by New Zealand's excellence.

"We were thoroughly beaten by a team that is now No 1 in the world - it'll be nice to go into the next game as the underdogs," he joked.

"I think we were dominant in the scrums, but it doesn't help you if you're dominant in one or two parts of the game. The All Blacks were more dominant in most parts of the game.

"I'm not going to butter it up with that cliche and say we're going to learn from this and get better. We didn't need to learn from this; we knew what we had to do on the day - we didn't do it."

Erasmus picked out some key moments as being turning points: the Boks trailed by three points (19-16) in the 58th minute and were pressuring the All Blacks' scrum when they conceded a penalty on their own feed.

"Even if we had kicked over that scrum penalty and we won we still made a helluva lot of errors," he said.

"But it wasn't a wake-up call. There were just so many things that we did wrong and that New Zealand did right - so I'm not going to say we learnt a lot of things from this match.

"There would have been a lot of things we'd have to put right even if we had scratched through this match with a one point win.

"We didn't play well. Against a class team like New Zealand, if you don't convert, they give you a proper hiding.

"With hindsight, there were a lot of things we didn't convert; I think there were two or three big moments when we let the game go away from us. Not because we wanted to or because we wanted to make those errors but because New Zealand forced those on to us by being really intense and sharp."

The tour continues when the All Blacks take on the Lions in Johannesburg on Tuesday in the final match against a franchise team before the second Test in Cape Town on Saturday.

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