South Africa delay naming their team for the World Cup quarter-final against hosts France.
South Africa will break with recent tradition and delay naming their team for the World Cup quarter-final against hosts France in Paris on Sunday as they mull over the starting team and how many ‘Bomb Squad’ forwards to pick among their replacements.
They will name their team on Friday morning and reveal who will play at flyhalf between the mercurial Manie Libbok and steady hand of Handre Pollard, as well as whether 2019 World Cup winner Lukhanyo Am will get a run at centre having been drafted into the squad last week as a medical replacement. Erasmus has backed France captain Antoine Dupont to play after the scrumhalf resumed training this week following surgery on a facial fracture sustained against Namibia on Sept. 21.
Keeping out France will be one thing, but crossing their try line another as France conceded the fewest points in the group stage. South Africa, second on the list, had only two more scored against them, but Erasmus had praise for the work of the hosts defence coach Shaun Edwards.
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