Lock Eben Etzebeth will earn his 100th Test cap at the Cape Town Stadium in the deciding third Test against Wales on Saturday.
A decade has passed since a raw, aggressive young lock named Eben Etzebeth made his Test debut against England and on Saturday he will earn his 100th Test cap.
Last week’s unusually sloppy play in the last quarter, where he conceded several penalties that allowed Wales back into the match, was an obvious low. “If you lose your 1ooth Test it will haunt you for the rest of your life, but the focus is on their performance and jobs firstly.” “This definitely feels like the Lions series,” he said. “Not that the other weeks haven’t felt ‘big’, because they were. It’s as big as the Lions.“Every game is about results for us. Even losing last week was a disaster for us. We selected that team because we believed it could beat Wales and for 78 minutes it did. Ill-discipline gave Wales the opportunity to get back in our half and put us under pressure.
“If you look at our squad and the 42 that are here, there is a lot of competition and many in-form players knocking hard on the door. I think for the players who you would call the established players – the guys who have won a World Cup and a British & Irish Lions series – it’s key for them to focus on their performance week in and week out.
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