Scotland vs South Africa Preview: Team News & Prediction | 2024 Autumn Internationals

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Fresh off a dominant win over Fiji, Gregor Townsend’s Scotland now welcome world champions South Africa to Murrayfield.

Start date/time: Sunday 10th November, 2024, UK – 4:10pm / US ET – 11:10am / US PT – 8:10am

How to watch on tv: UK – TNT Sports / US – Peacock

How to watch online: UK – discovery+ / US – Peacock

Scotland Form: Five wins on the bounce

There are few complaints from Scotland fans right now with Gregor Townsend’s men delivering an impressive display at Murrayfield last week as they dominated Fiji in a 57-17 victory.

That follows a successful summer series during which they won all four internationals, albeit against weaker opposition. The Scots disposed of Canada, USA, Chile and Uruguay, and last week’s win over Fiji made it five wins on the bounce since a mixed Six Nations campaign.

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South Africa form: Dominant Boks

This is South Africa’s first Autumn Nations Series contest and they come off the back of a dominant Rugby Championship campaign that saw them win five of their six games in what is a highly competitive southern hemisphere tournament.

The back-to-back world champions will now look to impose their will on the British home nations, starting with this contest at Murrayfield before meetings with both England and Wales.

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Scotland Team News: Returns for Russell, White & Kinghorn

SQUAD: 15 Tom Jordan, 14 Blair Kinghorn, 13 Huw Jones, 12 Sione Tuipulotu (c), 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 Team News: 11 changes

SQUAD: 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 (c), 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

Scotland vs South Africa Prediction

Although Scotland have won their last five Tests, they will be under no illusion that they have not faced a team in that stretch anywhere close to the quality of world champions South Africa.

Make no mistake, this a good Scotland team, but it is difficult to see them containing this incredible Boks forward line. The Murrayfield crowd will undoubtedly lift the hosts where they can, but the visitors should ultimately run out fairly comfortable winners.

Scotland vs South Africa Tip: South Africa to win with -11/5 handicap