South Africa look to make it back-to-back wins of their quest to defend the Rugby World Cup as they tackle Romania on Sunday.
The Springboks earned a hard-fought 18-3 win in opposition to Scotland to kick off their World Cup marketing campaign in France and now flip their consideration to the European minnows as they appear to safe a bonus-point victory to place stress on Pool B rivals Ireland.
Romania, in the meantime, head into this troublesome encounter off the again of a thumping 82-8 defeat to Ireland on the opening weekend.
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When is South Africa vs Romania?
South Africa vs Romania is because of kick off at 2pm BST on Sunday 17 September on the Stade de Bordeaux.
How can I watch it?
Viewers within the United Kingdom can watch the match stay on ITV1, with protection on the channel from 1:30pm BST. Registered customers also can stream the motion through ITVX.
Team information
South Africa suffered an enormous harm loss within the week with beginning hooker, Malcolm Marx dominated out of the event having sustained a critical knee harm. There was concern, too, for Eben Etzebeth however the highly effective second row seems to have solely suffered a minor knock and is in rivalry for a return in opposition to Ireland subsequent week.
On the sphere, Rassie Erasmus names 14 modifications from his facet that beat Scotland with Damian Willemse the one participant to retain his spot from the startling lineup. Canan Moodie and Jean Kleyn return from harm whereas Bongi Mbonambi captains the facet as he steps in to switch the injured Marx at hooker.
Romania head coach Eugen Apjok makes three modifications from their 12-try defeat to Ireland final week. Stefan Iancu and Florian Rosu are changed by Marius Iftimiciuc and Andre Gorin within the pack, whereas inside centre Taylor Gontineac replaces Fonovai Tangimana within the sole change to the again line.
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Line-ups
South Africa XV: 15-Willie Le Roux, 14-Grant Williams, 13-Canan Moodie, 12-Andre Esterhuizen, 11-Makazole Mapimpi, 10-Damian Willemse, 9- Cobus Reinach; 1-Ox Nche, 2-Mbongeni Mbonambi (c), 3-Vincent Koch, 4-Jean Kleyn, 5-Marvin Orie, 6-Marco van Staden, 7-Kwagga Smith, 8-Duane Vermeulen.
Replacements: 16-Deon Fourie, 17-Steven Kitshoff, 18-Trevor Nyakane, 19-RG Snyman, 20-Jasper Wiese, 21-Jaden Hendrikse, 22-Faf de Klerk, 23-Jesse Kriel.
Romania XV: 15-Marius Simionescu, 14-Tevita Manumua, 13-Jason Tomane, 12-Taylor Gontineac, 11-Nicolas Onutu, 10-Hinckley Vaovasa, 9-Gabriel Rupanu; 1-Iulian Hartig, 2-Ovidiu Cojocaru, 3-Alexandru Gordas, 4-Adrian Motoc, 5-Marius Iftimiciuc, 6-Andre Gorin, 7-Vlad Neculau, 8-Cristi Chirica (c).
Replacements: 16-Robert Irimescu, 17-Alexandru Savin, 18-Thomas Cretu, 19-Stefan Iancu, 20-Damian Stratila, 21-Cristi Boboc, 22-Alin Conache, 23-Gabriel Pop.
Odds
South Africa: 1/500
Draw: 50/1
Romania: 50/1
Prediction
Even a heavily-rotated Springbok facet ought to show an excessive amount of for Romania who struggled to compete with an equally-strong Ireland facet the weekend prior. South Africa 55-10 Romania.
