After a rare home defeat in the United Rugby Championship last weekend the Stormers next assignment sees them take on Leinster in Cape Town on Saturday
Stormers v Leinster, Saturday 27th April, Cape Town, KO 19:05 (South African time)
Referee: Andrea Piardi (Italy)
Assistant referees: Marius vd Westhuizen (South Africa) and Christopher Allison (South Africa)
TMO: Gianluca Gnecchi (Italy)
Weather Forecast – Cape Town
Stormers:
The got it all wrong against the Ospreys in Cape Town last week. They were 18.5 point favourites in the handicap but went down 27-21.
The Stormers have a URC record of 8 wins and 6 defeats, they are now sixth in a very congested area of the standings and their tally of 40 log points is 6 shy of fourth placed Bulls.
In URC Round 13 the Stormers were 13-7 winners at home to Ulster and in Round 3 they were beaten 10-3 at Munster. After this they go on tour to face the Dragons and Connacht before they finish up at home to the Lions.
In the outright betting the Stormers are priced at 10.5/1 to win the URC title with BoyleSports
Leinster:
Leinster have brought a weakened squad to SA and against the Lions in Johannesburg last week they finished well beaten 44-12.
Although Leinster continue to top the standings with 11 wins and 3 defeats against their name and they finished Round 14 just 1 point clear of second placed Glasgow Warriors.
In Round 13 Leinster pulled away from the Bulls in the second half to run out 47-14 winners in Dublin and they also beat the Sharks 34-13 back in Round 2 in another home fixture.
Aside from the loss to the Lions their 2 defeats this season came in Glasgow in the opening round and in Round 9 they were edged out 22-21 by Ulster in a home fixture.
In the outright betting to win the URC title BoyleSports make Leinster 0.57/1 favourites.
Team News
Stormers: 15 Warrick Gelant, 14 Suleiman Hartzenberg, 13 Dan du Plessis, 12 Damian Willemse, 11 Ben Loader, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Herschel Jantjies, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Ben-Jason Dixon, 6 Marcel Theunissen, 5 Ruben van Heerden, 4 Salmaan Moerat (captain), 3 Neethling Fouche, 2 Joseph Dweba, 1 Brok Harris.
Replacements: Andre-Hugo Venter, 17 Kwenzo Blose, 18 Frans Malherbe, 19 Connor Evans, 20 Willie Engelbrecht, 21 Hacjivah Dayimani, 22 Stefan Ungerer, 23 Wandisile Simelane
Leinster: 15 Henry McErlean, 14 Liam Turner, 13 Ben Brownlee, 12 Charlie Ngatai, 11 Rob Russell, 10 Sam Prendergast, 9 Cormac Foley, 8 Max Deegan, 7 Scott Penny (captain), 6 Rhys Ruddock, 5 Jason Jenkins, 4 Brian Deeny, 3 Michael Ala’alatoa, 2 John McKee, 1 Michael Milne
Replacements: 16 Gus McCarthy, 17 Ed Byrne, 18 Thomas Clarkson, 19 Conor O’Tighearnaigh, 20 Diarmuid Mangan, 21 Fintan Gunne, 22 Charlie Tector, 23 Martin Moloney
The Betting,
Stormers -18.5 points at 9/10
Leinster +18.5 points at 9/10
Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.
Betting Angle
This handicap opened Stormers -15.5 and has shifted out to -18.5. Leinster are missing their internationals but in the last their depth has been excellent so I was surprised by the poor showing in Joburg last week.
They face a Stormers side that has not been firing on all cyclinders and I am betting on an improved showing by Leinster and will back them to score 17 points or more.
BET: 4 units Leinster over 16.5 points at 10/11 at Pokerbet
Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.
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