England vs South Africa: Kick-off time, TV channel, live stream, team news, lineups, h2h, odds for rugby today

That followed a summertime successful which England were narrowly edged retired doubly by the All Blacks contempt starring some Test matches for agelong stretches, portion they besides came up conscionable abbreviated against France successful the Six Nations and against the Springboks successful past year’s Rugby World Cup semi-finals.

They volition person a accidental to avenge that second decision connected Saturday evening erstwhile reigning satellite champions South Africa caput to south-west London disconnected the backmost of a hard-fought triumph implicit Scotland past clip out.

The formidable Boks surely weren’t astatine their champion astatine Murrayfield successful their archetypal lucifer since winning the Rugby Championship for the archetypal clip since 2019 backmost successful September, but prevailed 32-15 for a ninth consecutive triumph implicit the Scots courtesy of a brace from Makazole Mapimpi and further tries from Thomas du Toit and Jasper Wiese.

England vs South Africa takes spot contiguous connected Saturday November 16, 2024 astatine Allianz Stadium Twickenham. Kick-off is scheduled for 5:40pm GMT.

It is the penultimate contention of England’s four-match autumn campaign, with lone a gathering with Eddie Jones’ Japan broadside near to come.

TV channel: In the UK, today’s showdown is being broadcast unrecorded connected TNT Sports 1, with sum opening astatine 5:15pm GMT aft Scotland’s clash with Portugal.

Live stream: Subscribers tin besides drawback the crippled unrecorded online via the Discovery+ website and app.

Live blog: Follow each the enactment connected matchday with Standard Sport’s live blog, featuring investigation from Simon Collings astatine Twickenham.

England’s fortunes against South Africa volition not beryllium helped by the dual lack of Tom Curry and Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, who person some withdrawn from the squad owed to caput injuries suffered successful Saturday’s last-gasp 42-37 nonaccomplishment to the resurgent Wallabies.

They person been replaced successful the wider squad by Bath flanker Ted Hill and Sale helping Tom Roebuck. Sam Underhill replaces Curry successful England’s backmost row, with Ollie Sleightholme coming successful retired wide for a archetypal commencement aft his two-try outing disconnected the seat against Australia.

There are 2 different changes from Borthwick, with George Furbank dropping retired wholly arsenic Freddie Steward returns astatine full-back and Ben Spencer replaced by Jack van Poortvliet astatine scrum-half. Roebuck is added to the bench.

As for the Springboks, a fig of immense names instrumentality to the starting lineup astatine Twickenham aft the rotation seen against Scotland that erstwhile again underlined their fearsome spot successful depth.

That fig includes influential skipper Siya Kolisi and prima flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit, portion the likes of Kurt-Lee Arendse, Cheslin Kolbe, Damian de Allende and Jesse Kriel were each omitted wholly astatine Murrayfield arsenic caput manager Rassie Erasmus bolstered his celebrated ‘Bomb Squad’ by opting to bring backmost the 7-1 seat divided that made headlines during past year’s constrictive World Cup last triumph implicit New Zealand successful Paris.

However, they each commencement this play successful 12 changes from Scotland. Former Harlequins prop Wilco Louw starts astatine prop for the archetypal clip successful 3 years, having been a precocious call-up for the tour.

Exciting fly-half Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu is among the South Africa players missing the autumn bid done injury, on with Salmaan Moerat, Steven Kitshoff, Faf de Klerk and Lood de Jager.

England XV: Steward; Freeman, Lawrence, Slade, Sleightholme; M Smith, Van Poortvliet; Genge, George (c), Stuart; Itoje, Martin; Cunningham-South, Underhill, Earl

Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, Baxter, Cole, Isiekwe, Dombrandt, Randall, Ford, Roebuck

South Africa XV: Fassi; Kolbe, Kriel, De Allende, Arendse; Libbok, Williams; Nche, Mbonambi, Loux; Etzebeth, Snyman; Kolisi (c), Du Toit, Wiese

Replacements: Marx, Steenekamp, Koch, Louw, Smith, Reinach, Pollard, Am

These 2 sides past met successful the 2023 World Cup semi-finals successful France, erstwhile Handre Pollard’s precocious punishment condemned astonishment bundle England to a heartbreaking 16-15 loss.

South Africa besides edged retired England successful the 2019 World Cup last successful Yokohama, aboriginal winning 27-13 astatine Twickenham successful November 2022 contempt Thomas du Toit's sending disconnected having mislaid by a azygous constituent a twelvemonth earlier, 27-26, aft Marcus Smith’s footwear with conscionable seconds to spare. The Springboks person a commanding pb successful the wide caput to caput and person mislaid conscionable 1 of the past 4 meetings.

England could not inquire for tougher opponents arsenic they desperately question to bounce backmost from their bid of maddening adjacent defeats.

While not firing connected each cylinders with a rotated broadside against Scotland, South Africa stay the champion squad connected the satellite - a finely-tuned and intensely carnal winning instrumentality who person ridiculous spot successful extent and important threats each implicit the pitch.

The alarm bells should beryllium ringing loudly for Borthwick aft his leaky squad shipped 42 points astatine location against an Australia broadside that are comfortably inferior to the Boks and who perfectly dismantled their breached blitz defence with ease, led by ultra-talented rugby league person Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii.

As ever with England vs South Africa and Rassie Erasmus, expect talking points and controversies galore arsenic hostilities are renewed, with the visitors apt emerging arsenic comfy victors from a nary uncertainty gruelling conflict to enactment much unit connected a struggling Borthwick whose squad proceed to deficiency important execution successful important moments.

South Africa to win, by 10 points.

South Africa to win: 4/11

Odds via Betfair (subject to change).