{"id":44795,"date":"2026-07-13T11:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nations-championship-south-africa-ring-changes-for-wales\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:27:12","slug":"nations-championship-south-africa-ring-changes-for-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nations-championship-south-africa-ring-changes-for-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations Championship: South Africa ring changes for Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">World champions South Africa have made 10 changes to their starting side to face Wales in the Nations Championship on Saturday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Rassie Erasmus has included four uncapped players, with wing Jaco Williams, fly-half Vusi Moyo, lock Ruben van Heerden and prop Carlu Sadie all making their Test debuts in Durban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit will again captain the side in the absence of Siya Kolisi, while the bench is packed with quality such as Manie Libbok, Damian Willemse and Herschel Jantjies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eben Etzebeth, Franco Mostert, Andre Esterhuizen, Canan Moodie, Handre Pollard and Ox Nche are all unavailable because of injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa are looking to make it three wins from three in the new tournament&#8217;s first block of games, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cvglz11w29xo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">beaten England 45-21<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cly807lylwzo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Scotland 42-28.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only skipper Du Toit, flanker Paul de Villiers and centre Jesse Kriel have started all three games for the Springboks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales began their campaign with an encouraging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c0my2xvzg3do\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">39-24 victory over Fiji,<\/a> but were overpowered by Argentina in Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cj9gk8179jlo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">35-21 defeat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The previous occasion the two sides met, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c30jd4vlr22o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Wales suffered their heaviest-ever home defeat<\/a> in a 73-0 humiliation less than eight months ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c0qyj9xvwx3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World champions South Africa have made 10 changes to their starting side to face Wales in the Nations Championship on Saturday. Head coach Rassie Erasmus has included four uncapped players, with wing Jaco Williams, fly-half Vusi Moyo, lock Ruben van Heerden and prop Carlu Sadie all making their Test debuts in Durban. Flanker Pieter-Steph du [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44797,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44795\/revisions\/44797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}