Australia vs. South Africa Prediction: will Australia make it three wins

Australia and South Africa will meet in the third round of the 2022 Rugby Championship after both losing their last matches to their opponent. The two teams are 2nd and 3rd respectively, on the log. Both teams will be hoping for a win as they look to win the competition.

In the first match of the competition, Australia had a comfortable win over Argentina in a score of 41-26. However, things did not go their way in the second meeting as they could only score just 17 goals while conceding 48. Currently, due to the poor performance in their second match, they are second on the table, having joint point of 5 with Argentina. The home team will now be focused on getting a win so as to get back to the top of the competition like they did at the end of the first round. Although, they have only managed to get two wins in their last five matches, their good performance against South Africa Springboks can be an advantage for them to get a well deserved difficult win.

Poor Springboks could only score 23 goals in their last match against the All Stars. Therefore, they will be coming into this game with all hope of getting a victory. Although, the bookies odds are in favor of the D Rennie’s South Africa, South Africa is not expected to be well confident but rather do everything possible to get a win. Last week against New Zealand who did well to make sure they did not concede lot of goals, H Pollard did well to convert his chances but it was not enough to get them a win as their defense could not do well to stop the All Stars pressure. However, against Australia, we expect to see a more determined Springboks who has the desire to progress in this competition. In their last five matches, they have won three and lost two. 

Last five matches between these two teams have ended in a win of three fpr the Wallabies with the remaining two matches in favor of the Springboks. However, these two teams have been going head to head since 1995 with All Stars getting most wins of 13 while 9 go for the Springboks. With history set to repeat itself, and also the advantage of playing at home, we do expect Australia to pull up a big challenge for the Springboks despite being out of favor of the bookies.