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Enough talk of ghosts and hosts for the Springboks: it’s time to beat Japan

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If anything‚ Japan’s Brave Blossoms are more likely to wilt as playing knockout rugby is something they are less familiar with.

It is for that reason captain Siya Kolisi believes the team are unlikely to buckle under the pressure of playing in a RWC quarterfinal.

In a bizarre way that defeat has helped steel the Springboks for the rigours of knockout rugby as they had no margin for error in their matches against Namibia‚ Italy and Canada. "That stuck with us until that game when we got here [before this World Cup]. It’s something that we never want to go through again.

With a dry surface Japan will be hell bent on deploying their nippy runners‚ especially their two leading try-scorers‚ wing Kotara Matsushima and Kenki Fukuoka.“Kotaro is an awesome player‚” said Kolisi.“We have nothing specific [in place] to watch one person – their whole team have been doing well‚ and he’s getting great opportunities because the team are doing well with ball in hand.

 

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