World champions South Africa have made 12 adjustments to their beginning XV for Saturday’s Autumn Nations Sequence match with England at Allianz Stadium.
Captain Siya Kolisi and former world participant of the yr Pieter-Steph du Toit return within the again row, whereas winger Cheslin Kolbe can also be named within the aspect.
Nevertheless, regardless of fielding seven forwards on the bench within the 32-15 win over Scotland, head coach Rassie Erasmus has opted for a traditional 5 forwards-three backs cut up amongst his replacements.
England are set to call their matchday squad at 13:30 GMT.
South Africa beat England 16-15 after a late Handre Pollard penalty of their final assembly within the 2023 World Cup semi-final.
The Boks squad consists of 15 gamers who confronted Steve Borthwick’s aspect in Paris, with Leicester Tigers fly-half Pollard among the many replacements.
“England poses a totally completely different problem to Scotland, and we chosen our squad based mostly on what we want to do within the match and likewise what we expect will likely be greatest to counter the problem England poses,” mentioned Erasmus.
“Luckily, we have now fairly a number of gamers who can swap positions if obligatory, so we really feel we have now sufficient depth all through the crew, which allowed us to pick out this group of replacements.”
England have misplaced their previous 4 matches, together with slim defeats of their opening two autumn Checks in opposition to New Zealand and Australia.
Erasmus, nevertheless, says previous outcomes depend for nothing when the 2 sides renew their rivalry in London.
Talking to BBC Radio 5 Reside, Erasmus added: “When you have the fitting gamers and the fitting administration, it might galvanise the crew, particularly when you’ve got two shut video games like that.
“Our actuality is we’re enjoying England, who we seldom beat right here. We expect a crew that will likely be actually tight and can play for his or her teaching employees. They imagine absolutely they will beat us.”
Erasmus added: “England come off two slim defeats, however the high quality of their performances was good in each matches, so we all know the dimensions of the problem.
“We misplaced narrowly to Eire and France in back-to-back matches in 2022 and a yr later had been world champions so we all know we should not learn something into the final two outcomes.”