All Blacks vs. Springboks (New Zealand vs South Africa) Preview, Schedule, Line up & Live Streaming
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The New Zealand All Blacks will meet the South African who are known as the Springboks on this Saturday, July 25th. The match will take place at the Ellis Park which is in Johannesburg. The kick-off time of the match is 17.05 local time. This will be a great contest to watch between the two top ranked teams when the World Cup is less than two months away. Rivalries between this two team is arguably one of the most compelling factor of the games and if you are real rugby fan then you don’t want to miss this contest. Steve Hansen, the coach of the All Blacks said this week
"We always want to beat them and they always want to beat us - it is one of the big Test matches you can be involved in as a player or a coach”
He feels that both the teams are very close in case of ability and talent and the result will be based according to the performance on that day. He believes that his enough talent and they have prepared well for this match. According to the coach of the Springboks, the game is most likely to be decided on the play of last quarter. He also said that they need to start well too. According to him New Zealand have the superior fitness than his team and they are working very hard to up their fitness level. Both the coach said their tactics might be affected by the weather of the match day as rain is predicted during the match. Hansen is hopeful that they will be able to play their high tempo game which they usually do and the weather with rain and thunderstorm might have some effect on it. He added that he will be finalizing his tactics after having a look of the opposition.
The match will be live streamed by sky sports and ESPN. The prediction for this match is not easy to make as both the teams are quiet and both of them are hopeful to win the match. Although the Springboks won the last time they meet each other but the All Blacks won five times consecutively before that. So if you are putting on money then you might put on the ALL Blacks.
Teams:
South Africa: Tendai Mtawarira, Jannie du Plessis, Lodewyk de Jager, Francois Louw, Ruan Pienaar, Bryan Habana, Jesse Kriel, Willie le Roux, Bismarck du Plessis, Eben Etzebeth, Heinrich Brüssow, Schalk Burger, Handré Pollard, Damian de Allende, Cornal Hendricks.
Replacements: Lionel Mapoe, Cobus Reinach, Flip van der Merwe, Trevor Nyakane, Pat Lambie, Warren Whiteley, Vincent Koch, Adriaan Strauss.
New Zealand: Tony Woodcock, Owen Franks, James Broadhurst, Richie McCaw, Aaron Smith, Charles Piutau, Conrad Smith, Conrad Smith, Israel Dagg, Dane Coles, Brodie Retallick, Liam Messam, Kieran Read, Lima Sopoaga, Ma'a Nonu, Ben Smith.
Replacements: Malakai Fekitoa, TJ Perenara, 19 Samuel Whitelock, Wyatt Crockett, Beauden Barrett, Victor Vito, Ben Franks, Codie Taylor.
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