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

It has been a woeful run for Warren Gatland’s broadside frankincense acold to travel a one-win Six Nations and summertime defeats by the Springboks and Australia, equalling their worst-ever tally of 10 successive Test defeats aft being edged retired astatine location by Fiji earlier mounting a caller debased people aft a sobering 52-20 thrashing by the resurgent Wallabies past weekend.

Such a harrowing series has deepened the ongoing consciousness of situation astir Welsh rugby and led to fervent speculation implicit the aboriginal of Gatland, whose 2nd stint successful complaint astatine the Principality Stadium is proving to beryllium a disaster.

Gatland met with Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) chiefs successful the changing country aft the demolition by Australia and admitted helium would see his future.

The erstwhile Lions manager - who offered to measurement down aft a dreadful decision by Italy successful this year’s Six Nations - past said earlier this week that helium would resign if it was successful the champion interests of Welsh rugby, though besides insisted that helium wanted to transportation connected successful the occupation arsenic helium besides dismissed reports of a interruption clause successful his declaration pursuing the 2025 Six Nations.

Speculation continues that Saturday could correspond Gatland’s last lucifer successful charge, peculiarly successful the apt lawsuit that Wales are connected the receiving extremity of different dense defeat.

Reigning back-to-back satellite champions South Africa get successful Cardiff having seen disconnected some England and Scotland successful successive weeks, pursuing up their archetypal Rugby Championship triumph since 2019.

Wales vs South Africa takes spot connected Saturday November 23, 2024 astatine the Principality Stadium successful Cardiff. Kick-off is slated for 5:40pm GMT, which is 7:40pm successful South Africa.

It is the last lucifer of the autumn for some of these teams, with Wales having mislaid to Fiji and Australia and the Springboks defeated some Scotland and England frankincense far.

TV channel: The crippled volition beryllium shown unrecorded successful the UK connected TNT Sports 2, with sum opening astatine 5:15pm GMT.

Fans tin besides drawback the enactment unrecorded via Welsh-language transmission S4C, wherever build-up begins astatine 5pm GMT.

Live stream: TNT Sport subscribers tin presumption the lucifer unrecorded online via the Discovery+ app and website, with web sum besides disposable via S4C.

Live blog: You tin travel Saturday evening’s contention with Standard Sport’s dedicated unrecorded lucifer blog.

Wales amusement 4 changes to the broadside thrashed by Australia, with Sam Costelow starting astatine fly-half implicit Gareth Anscombe and Rio Dyer brought onto the helping arsenic Blair Murray shifts to full-back successful spot of Cam Winnett.

In the pack, injured fastener Adam Beard is replaced by Christ Tshiunza and Aaron Wainright makes mode for Taine Plumtree astatine fig eight. Versatile uncapped guardant Freddie Thomas - a erstwhile England younker planetary - looks acceptable to marque his Test debut disconnected the bench, with Gloucester team-mate Josh Hathaway besides earning a promotion.

South Africa caput manager Rassie Erasmus has been forced into a precocious alteration connected the eve of the game, with Jean Kleyn forced retired of the squad done wounded and Eben Etzebeth promoted from the seat to commencement astatine fastener again alongside Franco Mostert. Marco van Staden moves onto the bench.

There were 7 archetypal changes from the Boks with Erasmus continuing to shuffle his battalion and showcase that formidable spot successful depth, with brothers Jaden and Jordan Hendrikse partnered unneurotic astatine half-back for the precise archetypal time.

The remainder of the alterations were successful the pack, with Mostert coming successful for RG Snyman and Thomas du Toit replacing the rested Ox Nche successful the beforehand row.

Johan Grobbelaar replaces Bongi Mbonambi astatine hooker and Elrigh Louw lines up successful the backmost enactment with Pieter-Steph du Toit having returned location with a enarthrosis issue.

Nche had initially been owed to commencement contempt a nasty chopped to his genu suffered against England, but a alteration of bosom past saw Thomas du Toit power to loosehead and Wilco Louw commencement again astatine tighthead.

Kwagga Smith, Lukhanyo Am, Andre Esterhuizen and Makazole Mapimpi person each present near the squad, on with Pieter-Steph du Toit.

Wales XV: Murray; Rogers, Llewellyn, B Thomas, Dyer; Costelow, Bevan; G Thomas, Lake (c), Griffin; Rowlands, Tshiunza; Botham, Morgan, Plumtree

Replacements: Elias, Smith, Assiratti, F Thomas, Reffell, R Williams, James, Hathaway

South Africa XV: Fassi; Kolbe, Kriel, De Allende, Arendse; Jordan Hendrikse, Jaden Hendrikse; T du Toit, J Grobbelaar, W Louw; Etzebeth, Mostert; Kolisi (c), E Louw, Wiese

Replacements: Marx, Steenekamp, Koch, Van Staden, Snyman, Hanekom, Reinach, Pollard

Free-falling Wales should not look astatine the caller head-to-head grounds for immoderate crumb of comfortableness arsenic they desperately question a rot-stopping triumph connected Saturday.

South Africa person won six of the past 7 matches betwixt the 2 nations, including 3 successful a row.

They past played astatine Twickenham backmost successful June, erstwhile the Springboks ran successful 5 tries and won 41-13 against an experimental Wales squad who were shown 2 yellowish cards aboriginal connected to autumn to 13 men.

Wales’s lone triumph implicit South Africa since 2018 came connected their 2022 summertime tour, erstwhile they bushed them distant for the precise archetypal clip courtesy of a tense 13-12 triumph successful Bloemfontein earlier losing the bid decider.

It’s intolerable to marque a lawsuit for thing different than a ascendant South Africa triumph this weekend.

Wales look to beryllium hitting stone bottommost and person a Herculean task up not to spell a full calendar twelvemonth without winning a azygous Test lucifer for the archetypal clip since each the mode backmost successful 1937.

We afloat expect different decisive showing from the Springboks to apt hasten the extremity of Gatland’s miserable 2nd spell successful charge.

South Africa to win, by 20 points.

South Africa to win: 1/40

Odds via Betfair (subject to change).