Player ratings: Clutch Cooper steals the show

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Hands up if you saw that coming?

After suffering a Bledisloe Cup cleanable sweep, the Wallabies rebounded successful benignant to stun the satellite champion Springboks 28-26 connected the Gold Coast.

Here's however the Australian players rated.

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Wallabies hooker gets it wrong

1: Angus Bell 5/10

Started to get progressive much successful wide play, but buckled nether unit to concede a mates of scrum penalties.

2: Folau Fainga'a 4.5/10

Sin-binning proved costly successful what was an different assured display.

3: Allan Alaalatoa 5/10

Faced immense unit successful the beforehand enactment and had a costly sound connected portion blistery connected attack, but responded instantly to triumph a scrum penalty.

4: Izack Rodda 5/10

Had a bully lineout bargain and was industrious successful the choky exchanges.

5: Matt Philip 6/10

Rolled up his sleeves successful a tireless effort, but was misdeed binned for nonrecreational foul adjacent ain effort line.

6: Lachlan Swinton 4/10

Gave arsenic bully arsenic helium got successful the pugnacious stuff, but a important punishment and handling errors proved costly.

South African skipper Siya Kolisi cops a yellowish card

7: Michael Hooper 7.5/10

Busy astir the ruck and added his accustomed touches of people with a cardinal turnover triumph and a mates of enactment breaks.

8: Rob Valetini 7/10

Strong display, with a fig of damaging runs up the mediate and ranging wide.

9: Tate McDermott 5/10

Was a wide focal constituent with a bid of container kicks, but felt the unit with immoderate kicks and passes going astray. Also saved a definite try.

Quade's affectional SBW tribute

10: Quade Cooper 9/10

The antheral of the infinitesimal didn't disappoint. Showed calmness passim to pb the onslaught and was flawless from the kicking tee – including the lucifer winner.

11: Marika Koroibete 6/10

Solid returning kicks from restarts and successful wide play. Worked hard successful constricted abstraction throughout.

12: Samu Kerevi 8/10

Was erstwhile again the astir unsafe attacking menace connected the tract from either side. Cut the defence to shreds to acceptable Andrew Kellaway away.

13: Len Ikitau 6.5/10

Rock coagulated performance, wherever helium shaded his much fancied other number. Put connected a immense antiaircraft deed and showed a fantastic near footwear connected a clearance kick.

Wallabies punish 14 antheral Boks

14: Andrew Kellaway 6/10

Not precisely the benignant of crippled wherever his talents could truly shine, but was connected manus for a well-taken try.

15 Tom Banks 5.5/10

Got plentifulness of catching signifier from a flurry of precocious kicks.

RESERVES

16: Feleti Kaitu'u 7/10

Came connected for his Test debut and made a near-instant interaction by causing a maul turnover. Very bully commencement indeed.

17: James Slipper 5/10

Worked hard, though scrummaging was a struggle.

18: Taniela Tupou 5/10

Struggled to get overmuch spell guardant against the monolithic Springboks pack.

19: Rob Leota N/A

20: Pete Samu 7/10

Very bully aft coming on. Provided immoderate attacking spark arsenic good arsenic completing regular duties.

21: Nic White 6/10

Subbed connected consecutive aft halftime arsenic wounded screen and kicked the archetypal 50/22. Was a large hindrance to the absorption arsenic shown by winning the last penalty.

22: Reece Hodge 3/10

A handling mistake and precise unusual footwear enactment adjacent fulltime was not the benignant of interaction helium would've been after.

23: Jordan Petaia N/A

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