South Africa v Japan: Malcolm Marx on bench for Rugby World Cup match

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Hooker Malcolm Marx was left out of the South Africa starting XV to face Japan at the Rugby World Cup.
A nominee for World Player of the Year award at 2018, Even the 25-year-old, is on the bench as Mbongeni Mbonambi begins.
Wings Cheslin Kolbe and Makazole Mapimpi equally begin, at 12 with Handre Pollard at Damian Allende and 10.
Second row Lood de Jager, who will proceed following the championship to Sale, is also included.
Coach Rassie Erasmus has named the same starting XV that beat Italy 49-3 within their pool match, following a second-string side
Marx is among three players that were chosen to start the meeting with New Zealand on the tournaments opening weekend, however, have since dropped from favour.
Bongi is definitely a physical, barbarous, scrummaging, in-your-face hooker. Malcolm is quite much in the same mold, and the two will get close to 40 minutes, said Erasmus.
But Bongi at the tighter first halfand in the event the game opens up a little bit more in the second half, Malcolm from the second half will benefit the team by choosing it in this manner.
South Africa fell victim to arguably the greatest shock in the history of the World Cup when dropping to Japan in at Brighton in the pool stages of the 2015 tournament, but listed a comprehensive 41-7 victory when the teams met for the first time since within an warm-up game in September.
That result is virtually irrelevant. We can overlook Brighton and Kumagaya today, and focus on the quarter-finals, additional Erasmus.
How Japan have improved because that game is tremendous, since they have defeated Ireland and Scotland, and topped the pool. And then they did it in style.
Saying they have enhanced is accurate, but we feel that we have also improved a good deal because this match.
There are big expectations at a quarter-final – it is not a favorable. Its about who handles the strain the best, and expectations that the best.
Erasmus declared his team over 24 hours until he was required to, however hedid not care really about committing Japan counterpart Jamie Joseph prior knowledge of his line-up.
If they are going to change their group because of the way we picked our staff, I think there are some problems within their group selection coverage, he explained.
South Africa: Le Roux: Kolbe, Am, De Allende, Mapimpi; Pollard, De Klerk, Mtawarira, Mbonambi, Malherbe, Etzebeth, De Jager, Kolisi (c), Du Toit, Vermeulen
Replacements: Marx, Kitschoff, Koch, Snyman, Mostert, Louw, H Jantjies, Steyn
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