Test rerun of World Cup semi-final set to make for a compelling encounter between rivals
Rassie Erasmus expressed his admiration for England's defence: 'The guys tackle ... they sometimes make misreads, but they tackle ... And that’s a sign of a team that cares.' Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Imagessays they picked the team three weeks ago, during a training camp in Jersey. Nothing he’s seen in the way England played against“You know, when you lose two games, even if it’s by a point or last-minute try, the pressure does start to build,” said Erasmus. “I’ve been there.
South Africa have made 12 changes to the team that beat Scotland, including the entire backline. The only players who will start both games are the prop Ox Nché, hooker Bongi Mbonambi and lock Eben Etzebeth.England will have been anticipating most of the switches given that South Africa are on a six-day turnaround, but there are still a couple they won’t have seen coming.
Erasmus says that the only real difference he sees between this England team and that one is in their defence, “The guys tackle, man. They might miss a few, but hell, they make reads and they sometimes make misreads, but they tackle, you know? And that’s a sign of a team that cares a lot.” “It would be morally wrong for me to comment,” said Erasmus. “But I can say I don’t think it would have been a personality clash. If it was, I wouldn’t talk about it, because I don’t know about it, but I don’t think one should also just point fingers and say, ‘someone worked here, why aren’t they working there?’ Sometimes what’s needed in one team is not exactly what’s needed in another.”
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