The Springboks are one up in the series against the Lions as they head for the Highveld for the last two games of the series. The Lions centre Brian O'Driscoll, writing in The Guardian, believes that after yesterday's display they're in with a good chance of drawing level in the series on Saturday.
"I do not expect the irony will be lost on South Africa, after the way the Lions took the 1997 series here by kicking all their goals, but we scored three tries to two in defeat and came very close to scoring five more.
That gives us a real belief that we can repeat what the 1989 Lions in Australia did and come back from one down to take the series. We know we are going to have to do it the hard way with the final two matches being played on the high veld, but we are good enough, as we showed in Durban.
We dominated the game in terms of territory, we took play through far more phases than South Africa and we made a number of line breaks. But we were punished for our mistakes and problems at the scrum in the first half. Don't ask me what was going on, because front-row play is beyond my expertise, but when we got on top in that area after the break, it provided us with the platform to attack the Springboks and we very nearly pulled off a remarkable comeback."
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