Eire look certain to be compelled into adjustments for the second Check in Durban subsequent week after hooker Dan Sheehan, centre Robbie Henshaw, debutant full-back Jamie Osborne and scrum-half Craig Casey all left the sport in Pretoria via harm.
Springbok’s head coach Rassie Erasmus is anticipating an excellent higher problem from the vacationers second time round.
“Eire will work out what we tried to do and we’re going to try to work out what they did as a result of additionally they scored three tries,” mentioned Erasmus.
“Similar to [on Saturday], they by no means quit. They’ll attempt to be extra dominant.
“That they had an harm at hooker and their 9 went down, so there have been disruptive issues within the recreation.
“I assumed the Cheslin strive was most likely the put-away the place we had been fortunate. However till the final second, we had been nonetheless nervy concerning the recreation.
“So no, they’re positively not going to run away. They’re going to be higher subsequent weekend and we should actually carry out.”
The Springboks victory ended a run of three consecutive Irish victories on this fixture and it was Erasmus’ first win over the nation the place he labored for 18 months as Munster’s director of rugby.
“Since 2018, that is the one workforce that we had a zero p.c success charge towards, together with New Zealand and the Lions,” he added.
“They actually had our quantity and so they got here again so strongly. I believe in the event that they didn’t have massive accidents, I believe the sport would have been a lot tighter.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a monkey off our again but it surely’s a extremely good, aggressive workforce that’s quantity two [in the world rankings] and any day can beat you and be primary.”
