The results don’t have much impact on the World Rugby rankings, with the Springboks once again unable to improve their points standing after facing seventh-placed Argentina. ADVERTISEMENTAustralia remain in eighth place, but Japan have now dropped to 12th below Italy. “Our focus was purely on beating Argentina today, and we had a tough day out there,” said Erasmus. “Argentina play a different style of rugby, and the stadium is genuinely intimidating, but it’s a win although it wasn’t pretty and perfect. A number of players were short on game time returning from injury, but getting them through 80 minutes was always going to affect our fluency.