The Stormers (at the moment in eighth place on the URC log with 40 factors) will give the whole lot to stay within the high eight, which might require successful all three remaining round-robin matches.
John Dobson’s crew could have a heavy load on their shoulders towards the fifth-placed Benetton in what they are going to take into account a must-win encounter on the DHL Stadium – a floor the place they’ve had honest success this season, successful 4 of their six matches, with their defeats being by one and 9 factors respectively.
They may, nonetheless, be cautious of the truth that the Italians have proved that they’ll win away from house with three wins on the highway within the bag already, whereas in addition they come off an encouraging 42-31 victory towards the Lions in Johannesburg final week.
The Capetonians will take consolation from the truth that they’ve scored 35 factors greater than Benetton, who’ve been marginally higher on defence, which ought to pave the way in which for a humdinger of a match.
Stormers v Benetton
Date: Saturday, 26 April
Venue: DHL Stadium, Cape City
SA Time: 18h15
Referee: Adam Jones
TV: SuperSport
URC LIVE SCORING: STORMERS V BENETTON
Stormers: 15 Warrick Gelant, 14 Seabelo Senatla, 13 Dan du Plessis, 12 Damian Willemse, 11 Leolin Zas, 10 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, 9 Stefan Ungerer, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Marcel Theunissen, 6 Paul de Villiers, 5 Ruben van Heerden, 4 Salmaan Moerat (captain), 3 Sazi Sandi, 2 André-Hugo Venter, 1 Ali Vermaak.
Replacements: 16 JJ Kotze, 17 Vernon Matongo, 18 Brok Harris, 19 JD Schickerling, 20 Connor Evans, 21 Louw Nel, 22 Herschel Jantjies, 23 Suleiman Hartzenberg.
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