South Africa's end of year international rugby program starts at Murrayfield on Sunday and they start as the bookmakers favourites to see off Scotland.
Scotland v South Africa, Sunday 10th November, Edinburgh, KO 18:10 (South African time)
Referee: Christophe Ridley (RFU)
Assistant Referees: Luke Pearce (RFU), Craig Evans (WRU)
TMO: Ian Tempest (RFU)
Weather Forecast - Edinburgh
Scotland:
Scotland tuned up for this with a 57-17 victory over Fiji at Murrayfield last week. Darcy Graham scored 4 of their 8 tries in a one sided contest which saw the Scots easily cover a minus handicap of around 17.5 points.
Scotland's mid year tour of North and South America delivered wins over Canada (73-12), USA (42-7), Chile (52-11) and Uruguay (31-19). After this they host Portugal and they finish their year against the Wallabies.
In the 6 Nations earlier this year Scotland started with a win in Wales (27-26) and a home defeat to France (20-16). After that they won at home to England (30-21) but then went down in Italy (31-29) and Ireland (17-13).
South Africa:
The Boks arrive in Europe on the back of winning the Rugby Championship title.
They started with back to back wins over the Wallabies in Australia ( 30-12 and 33-7) and then beat the All Blacks in two close games on home turf, coming from behind on both occasions to win 18-12 in Cape Town and 31-27 in Johannesburg. Their only defeat
came in Argentina where they went down 29-28 to Los Pumas but a round later they beat the same opposition 48-7 in South Africa to clinch the title.
In July this year South Africa shared their 2 match home series against Ireland, winning the first test 27-20 but losing the second 25-24. They also ran out winners at home to Portugal 64-21.
South Africa now renew rivalry with the Scots whom they beat 18-3 victory in their first pool match of RWC23 in France last year and they went on to win the tournament. After this they will face England and then Wales
Team News
Scotland: 15 Tom Jordan, 14 Blair Kinghorn, 13 Huw Jones, 12 Sione Tuipulotu (captain), 11 Duhan van der Merwe, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Ben White, 8 Jack Dempsey, 7 Rory Darge, 6 Matt Fagerson, 5 Scott Cummings, 4 Grant Gilchrist, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 Ewan Ashman, 1 Pierre Schoeman
Replacements: 16 Dylan Richardson, 17 Rory Sutherland, 18 Elliot Millar Mills, 19 Max Williamson, 20 Josh Bayliss, 21 Jamie Ritchie, 22 Jamie Dobie, 23 Stafford McDowall
South Africa: 15 Willie le Roux, 14 Canan Moodie, 13 Lukhanyo Am, 12 Andre Esterhuizen, 11 Makazole Mapimpi, 10 Handre Pollard, 9 Jaden Hendrikse, 8 Kwagga Smith, 7 Elrigh Louw, 6 Marco van Staden, 5 Franco Mostert, 4 Eben Etzebeth (captain), 3 Thomas du Toit, 2 Bongi Mbonambi, 1 Ox Nche
Replacements: 16 Malcolm Marx, 17 Gerhard Steenekamp, 18 Vincent Koch, 19 RG Snyman, 20 Siya Kolisi, 21 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 22 Jasper Wiese, 23 Grant Williams
Recent Head to Head
Sep 2023 RWC Marseille South Africa 18-3 Scotland
Nov 2021 INT Edinburgh Scotland 15–30 South Africa
Nov 2018 INT Edinburgh Scotland 20-26 South Africa
The Betting
Update 9 Nov 08h54
Scotland +9.5 points at 9/10
South Africa -8.5 points at 9/10
Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.
Betting Angle
Posted 09 Nov 08h56
The handicap has been fairly stable after the team announcements albeit Rassie has picked a South Africa team nobody would have predicted.
It is a strong team with a scary strong bench but I think they may be a bit vulnerable in the 1st half.
I am going to back the Scots to lead at halftime. There is 9/4 on offer at Boyles but I am going to take the draw out of the equation and will grab 18/10 draw no bet.
If you missed THE HANDICAP our live rugby betting show on Thursday jump straight to England v Australia here
BET: 3 units Scotland to lead at halftime DNB at 18/10 at Betxchange
The points line at the time of writing is 49.5 and if I get involved in this market I will post the bet on Sunday.
Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.
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