Lions roar past Stormers
Fred Zeilinga kicked 17 points as the Lions clinched a 37-19 upset win against the Stormers in Cape Town on Saturday.
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Fred Zeilinga kicked 17 points as the Lions clinched a 37-19 upset win against the Stormers in Cape Town on Saturday.
The SA Rugby magazine team have made their Superbru picks for this week’s Vodacom United Rugby Championship matches and the Lions have been given little chance of beating the Stormers in Cape Town.
Marvin Orie and Seabelo Senatla will make their first appearances of the season for the Stormers in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship against the Lions in Cape Town on Saturday.
The South African teams resume their respective Vodacom United Rugby Championship campaigns with the landscape having changed a bit since they last played seven weeks ago.
Stormers assistant coach Dawie Snyman has confirmed that Springbok prop Steven Kitshoff and scrumhalf Herschel Jantjies will be rested for Saturday’s Vodacom United Rugby Championship match against the Lions in Cape Town.
Two Vodacom United Rugby Championship derbies originally scheduled for February 2022 have been brought forward and will be played in Durban and Cape Town this weekend.
SA Rugby could reportedly activate an emergency backup plan that will see the four South African Vodacom United Rugby Championship teams face each other after fixtures against overseas teams were postponed.
The Vodacom United Rugby Championship is back this week and, for the first time, the competition will be contested on South African soil.
Damian Willemse, Marvin Orie and Salmaan Moerat are back in training with the Stormers and are all expected to be involved in Saturday’s Vodacom United Rugby Championship match against Zebre in Cape Town.
Adré Smith’s appeal against the guilty verdict and subsequent suspension he received for allegedly bitting an opponent in the Stormers’ United Rugby Championship match against Munster earlier this year been successful.