South Africa v Georgia: How to watch, live stream and kick-off time

Stephen Hurrell
Springboks

Grant Williams runs in South Africa's opening try

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Reigning world champions South Africa take on Georgia at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit on Saturday.

The clash will kick off at 5.10pm local time, which is 4.10pm UK time. The match will be shown on Supersport in South Africa, and Flosports and the Flosports App in the USA. You can watch a live stream here.

The Springboks will hand debuts to Boan Venter, Marnus van der Merwe, and Neethling Fouche on Saturday. It is a much-changed side from Rassie Erasmus with only Ruan Nortje, Edwill van der Merwe (wing), Canan Moodie (utility back), Grant Williams (scrum-half), and Pieter-Steph du Toit keeping their places from the victory over Italy.

The matchday squad features an intriguing blend of youth and experience with 15 World Cup winners in the 23 and a number of younger players hoping to pick up first team experience.

Among the more experienced players Eben Etzebeth will earn his 133th cap, while Jasper Wiese will miss out after he was handed a four-game suspension for a headbutt. His brother Cobus will take his place as the number eight.

Georgia, while not being one of Europe’s top teams, will be a tricky opponent thanks to their powerful scrum that should give the Springboks more problems than the Azzurri in the previous two games.

Fans can watch the game here.

Springboks team v Georgia

South Africa: 15 Aphelele Fassi, 14 Edwill van der Merwe, 13 Canan Moodie, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 10 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, 9 Grant Williams, 8 Cobus Wiese, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Siya Kolisi (c), 5 Ruan Nortje, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Neethling Fouchem 2 Marnus van der Merwe, 1 Boan Venter
Replacements: 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Thomas du Toit, 18 Vincent Koch, 19 RG Snyman, 20 Kwagga Smith, 21 Faf de Klerk, 22 Handré Pollard, 23 Damian Willemse

Georgia: 15 Davit Niniashvili, 14 Akaki Tabutsadze, 13 Demur Tapladze, 12 Giorgi Kveseladze, 11 Alexander Todua, 10 Luka Matkava, 9 Vasil Lobzhanidze, 8 Ilia Spanderashvili, 7 Beka Saginadze (c), 6 Luka Ivanishvili, 5 Lado Chachanidze, 4 Mikheili Babunashvili, 3 Irakli Aptsiauri, 2 Vano Karkadze, 1 Giorgi Akhaladze
Replacements: 16 Irakli Kvatadze, 17 Giorgi Tetrashvili, 18 Beka Gigashvili, 19 Demur Epremidze, 20 Sandro Mamamtvarishvili, 21 Tornike Jalagonia, 22 Tedo Abzhandadze, 23 Tornike Kakhoidze

Date: Saturday, July 19
Venue: Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit
Kick-off: 17:10 local (16:10 BST)
Referee: Matthew Carley (RFU)
Assistant referees: Hollie Davidson (SRU), Adam Leal (RFU)
TMO: Andrew Jackson (RFU)
FPRO: Tual Trainini (FFR)