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Matfield wary of Cheetahs
2011-05-25 16:15
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Pretoria - The Bulls will face a different Cheetahs team to the one they beat in the early rounds of the Super Rugby season and will be mindful of this when the sides meet in Pretoria on Saturday, Bulls captain Victor Matfield said on Wednesday.
"The Cheetahs are playing good rugby and are very dangerous," said the Springbok stalwart.
"They also change their way of playing a little bit, playing much more direct at the moment and not playing wide like they did in the past."
The last time the two teams faced each other the Bulls narrowly beat the Cheetahs 25-23 in Bloemfontein.
Matfield said his team will have to be physically and mentally prepared to combat in form players like props Coenie Oosthuizen and WP Nel as well as eighthman Ashley Johnson.
The Springbok lock also identified the Cheetahs lineout as a possible weakness which they could exploit.
"Hopefully we can put them under pressure there, they don’t have a specialist number five," said Matfield.
"We need to be at the top of our game if we want to take advantage of it."
Teams:
Bulls:
15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Akona Ndungane, 13 Jaco Pretorius, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Bjorn Basson, 10 Morne Steyn, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Dewald Potgieter, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Victor Matfield (captain), 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 1 Dean Greyling
Substitutes: 16 Gary Botha, 17 Rossouw de Klerk, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Danie Rossouw, 20 Dustin Jinka, 21 Francois Brummer, 22 Gerhard van den Heever
Cheetahs:
15 Riaan Viljoen, 14 Riaan Smit, 13 Robert Ebersohn, 12 Corné Uys, 11 Philip Snyman, 10 Sias Ebersohn, 9 Sarel Pretorius, 8 Davon Raubenheimer, 7 Ashley Johnson, 6 Kabamba Floors, 5 Martin Muller, 4 Francois Uys, 3 WP Nel, 2 Adriaan Strauss (captain), 1 Coenie Oosthuizen
Substitutes: 16 Ryno Barnes, 17 Lourens Adriaanse, 18 Izak van der Westhuizen/Hendrik Roodt, 19 Johan Wessels, 20 Tewis de Bruyn, 21 Naas Olivier, 22 Hennie Daniller
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