Jerry Flannery is wary of the threats that an injury-hit Italian side poses to his Springboks defence after the Azzurri ran South Africa ‘really, really close’ in Pretoria.
Italy head coach Gonzalo Quesada is without a plethora of star men for the meeting with the back-to-back World Cup winners, including the world-class centre pairing of Juan Ignacio Brex and Tommaso Menoncello.
While the Springboks have a fair share of their own injury concerns, head coach Rassie Erasmus has still managed to name a strong matchday 23 for the meeting in Turin, with the team closely resembling the one that beat the
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