A new-look Springbok team will tackle Portugal in Bloemfontein on Saturday. Here is when the one-off Test will kick off.
The Springboks arrived in the Free State capital on Sunday afternoon, and are now preparing to face Portugal as theyfrom their heart-breaking defeat 25-24 defeat against Ireland this past weekend.
“Portugal are a quality team as they showed in the Rugby World Cup last year by defeating Fiji, and we have no doubt they’ll want to make a strong statement against us, so although we may mix things up for this Test, we’ll select a quality team that we have full faith in to get our season back on track,” Erasmus commented.
“Those players will have 10 days off, which means they’ll be fresh when they rejoin the squad before the Castle Lager Rugby Championship.”Springbok squad for the match against Portugal:Ntuthuko Mchunu, Ox Nche , Gerhard Steenekamp, Jan-Hendrik Wessels , Frans Malherbe , Vincent Koch, Trevor Nyakane , Thomas du Toit . Bongi Mbonambi , Malcolm Marx , Johan Grobbelaar , Andre-Hugo Venter .
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