Wales 16-19 South Africa: Springboks to play England in Rugby World Cup final

Some time soon, Welsh rugby will realise what it has had and what it has lost. South Africa are through to the Rugby World Cup final after narrowly beating Wales in their semi-final on Sunday The Springboks players embrace at the full-time whistle after coming through a ferocious test against the Welsh Handre Pollard kicks the winning penalty as South Africa booked their place in the Rugby World Cup final against England Damian de Allende scored the first try of the game when he went past two Welsh defenders after a length South Africa attack De Allende is congratulated by his team-mates after finally making the breakthrough following a nervy opening hour Wales hit back almost straight away though when Josh Adams continued his try-scoring run at this tournament with another Adams is embraced by Rhys Patchell after touching down to help level up the match with around 15 minutes to play Wales will now go on to play against New Zealand in the third-place play-off in Warren Gatland's final match in charge MATCH FACTS Wales: Halfpenny; North, J Davies, Parkes, Adams; Biggar, G Davies ; Wyn Jones, Owens, Francis, Ball, Alun Wyn Jones, Wainwright, Moriarty, Tipuric. The two teams observe a moment of silence for the victims of Typhoon Hagibis before kick-off in Sunday's semi-final Wales scrum-half Gareth Davies kicks clear at the back of the ruck as he looks to relieve some of the pressure on his side Dan Biggar strikes a penalty through the posts to make it 3-3 before Pollard added three more points for South Africa Wales winger Josh Adams gets sandwiched between South African tacklers Makazole Mapimpi and Siya Kolisi There were a couple of snapshots which summed up the way this arm-wrestle tussle played out. Pollard added a third penalty to keep the scoreboard ticking over before Biggar cut the deficit to 9-6 at the interval Wales winger George North was forced off with a hamstring injury just minutes before half-time as he tried to chase the ball The former Northampton Saints star was visibly upset on the touchline with fears his World Cup could now be over Halfpenny was brought crashing back down to earth following a huge hit from South Africa's Eben Etzebeth Tempers threatened to boil over early in the second half with Jake Ball squaring up to De Klerk after a line-out Parity seemed a fanciful notion for long periods in the first half. De Allende had plenty of work to do when he received the pass but shrugged off two Welsh tacklers to get across the line De Klerk and South African flanker Siya Kolisi celebrate after watching De Allende get across the line Wales made the brave call to take a scrum in front of the posts and reaped the rewards with Adams scoring in the corner Halfpenny took over the kicking duties and converted Adams' try to bring the score to 16-16 with 15 minutes left to play Biggar hit the target either side of half-time to keep Wales in the hunt, only for Damian de Allende to blast past the fly-half and Tomos Williams for his side's only try, converted by Pollard.