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- South Africa vs New Zealand Betting Tips and Preview: All Blacks to edge South Africa in low-scoring Rugby Championship encounter
South Africa vs New Zealand Betting Tips and Preview: All Blacks to edge South Africa in low-scoring Rugby Championship encounter
- New Zealand are looking to finish The Rugby Championship with a perfect six wins from six for the second tournament in a row. New Zealand to win @ . — 1/7 Dafabet
- Only twice in nine previous meetings between the two sides at DHL Newlands has either side has scored more than 20 points. Neither team to score 20 points @ . — 10/1 Unibet
South Africa vs New Zealand Preview
South Africa coach Allister Coetzee has promised his side will stick to their all-out attack policy for their final match of the 2017 Rugby Championship, despite calls for them to adopt more conservative tactics at Fortress Newlands. South Africa's ball-in-hand, the run-from-anywhere approach was clear to see in the exciting 27-27 draw against Australia last weekend. Then, Elton Jantjies' late difficult penalty miss handed New Zealand the 2017 Rugby Championship before their match against Argentina in Buenos Aires. That same adventurous spirit was the Springboks' undoing in September when they suffered their worst-ever defeat against the All Blacks. The fact is, New Zealand humiliated South Africa in Albany, and will be equally unforgiving in Cape Town.
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South Africa vs New Zealand Prediction
The Springboks have won eight of their last 10 games at Newlands; they have an 8-1-1 record on home turf since losing a close encounter in Durban against Ireland in June 2016. But, as our Rugby Union Odds reveal, it is just about impossible to see beyond a New Zealand victory in their first outing at this venue since 2008. While the All Blacks' experienced second row Brodie Retallick is likely to miss the game for personal reasons, his engine room colleague Sam Whitelock is one of a number of expected returnees, after several key players rested for last week's trip to Argentina. For all their attacking dreams, the hosts are likely to end up relying on the boot of the usually reliable Jantjies, who has landed 23 of his 28 kicks at goal and is the tournament's top scorer heading into the weekend.
South Africa vs New Zealand Betting Tips
The All Blacks are odds-on for a second Rugby Championship clean-sweep in as many seasons, which is why the best price you'll get on a New Zealand win at Fortress Newlands is Dafabet's 1/7. You should expect the visitors, who have scored three times as many first-half tries as any of their opponents in this year's tournament, to make a clear statement of match-winning intent in the opening period before sitting back and absorbing everything the Springboks can throw at them in the second. Coach Steve Hansen has certainly picked a formidable side that he would expect to cope with anything that comes their way. South Africa, however, will be equally determined not to let their usually free-scoring opponents to run away with the game this time, so will put body and soul on the line in defence to stay in touch. This will be a brutal encounter. It will not always be pretty - but it will never be anything less than enthralling.
Yes, the All Blacks gave poor South Africa a 57-0 rugby lesson in Albany last month, and yes, they also won 57-10 on their visit to South Africa in last year's Rugby Championship. But despite that definitive-looking 114-10 points difference over the past two meetings between the two sides, Odd Digger's Rugby Union betting tips suggest that Unibet's 10/1 odds on neither side scoring 20 points in the match may be worth a closer look. Despite the visitors' obvious dominance in the tournament this year, history suggests we will see a close encounter of the low-scoring kind at the weekend. This is the 10th meeting between the two sides at Newlands - and neither side has passed 30 points in the past nine matches at this venue. In fact, only twice has either of these two sides scored more than 20 points in those 10 most recent Cape Town meetings.
