{"id":339452,"date":"2023-10-17T23:54:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T23:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=339452"},"modified":"2023-10-18T05:01:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T05:01:24","slug":"absolute-raw-power-eales-tip-for-world-cup-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=339452","title":{"rendered":"'Absolute raw power': Eales' tip for World Cup winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS:\ufeff<\/strong> Wallabies icon John Eales believes the Springboks<\/a> deserve slight favouritism ahead of the All Blacks<\/a> to lift a record fourth Rugby World Cup<\/a> in France.<\/p>\n

New Zealand \ufeffand South Africa are at short odds to beat Argentina and England respectively in this weekend's semi-finals in Paris.<\/p>\n

If that were to happen it would set up a rematch of the epic 1995 World Cup final, won by the Springboks in extra time in Johannesburg in front of the late Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n

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\ufeff"You would have to go immediately to New Zealand and South Africa," Eales said on Stan Sport's Between Two Posts<\/em> when asked by former teammate Tim Horan to pick a winner.<\/p>\n

"New Zealand have that bit of electricity but South Africa look like a team that has been together for longer than New Zealand.<\/p>\n

"So if you're going to edge, maybe you're edging that way.<\/p>\n

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\"Cheslin<\/p>\n

"They've been together for a bit longer with this combination, they've got that absolute raw power, but they've also got that speed.<\/p>\n

"And what they did really well against the French is they just capitalised on their opportunities. Small windows opened and they took them."<\/p>\n

South Africa pipped France 29-28<\/a> and New Zealand beat Ireland \ufeff28-24<\/a> in two of the greatest World Cup matches ever played between the top four teams on the planet.<\/p>\n

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Of course both \ufeffcamps have moved quickly to talk up the threats posed by the opposition.<\/p>\n

Michael Cheika's Argentina<\/a> toppled Wales<\/a> 29-17 in Marseille where England<\/a> shaded Fiji<\/a> 30-24.\ufeff<\/p>\n

New Zealand and holders South Africa are the only countries to have won three\ufeff World Cups, with Australia claiming two and England one.<\/p>\n

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"I think we have to not get ahead of ourselves," former Springboks flanker Francois Louw said when asked about an All Blacks meeting.<\/p>\n

"I hope it will be. It will be 1995 in Paris. That is the World Cup I grew up with, that is what put rugby on the map for me.<\/p>\n

"We have got to be careful. This happened a few years ago when teams got too ahead of themselves. We have got to get through England. England haven't been on form, I think we will but we still have to do the job."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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