South Africa vs Wales - RWC 2015 Quarter-Final Prediction

A vastly different side to that which opened up the tournament for the Bokke, this Springboks side look back to their old selves after what a pretty disastrous start to the World Cup. The iconic, record-breaking Bryan Habana helped South Africa on their way to being the second-highest scorers in the pool stages, just behind Argentina. They will however be missing their talisman Jean De Villiers, who sadly ended his international career through injury in the group stage.

 

If you want to talk about injuries, look no further than this Welsh squad though, who despite having to play inexperienced players often out of position managed to escape the Pool of Death and knock England out of their own World Cup, something the players and fans should be proud of. However, if we're being honest, it wasn't convincing. The heart and guts shown in that match against England to come back was phenomenal, but the better team for most of the game were a poor England side, who still could have come away with a draw. Now if you're only narrowly beating that bad England side, and failing to score against Australia when they have 13 men, there is very, very little chance of escaping this match against South Africa with a victory, especially considering the desperately poor Welsh scrum, despite the last match between these sides ending in victory for the Welsh.

Now it will not be easy for the Springboks, the Welsh will leave everything they have out on that pitch as always,  but they should come out of this battle as victors, even if Dan Biggar is his usual clinical self with the boot. He saved them against a bad England team, he won't be able to repeat those heroics against a confident South African side.

Prediction: South Africa by 10