{"id":85568,"date":"2025-08-22T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85568\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:58:08","slug":"willie-le-roux-ruled-out-of-wallabies-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85568\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie le Roux ruled out of Wallabies rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Willie le Roux has been ruled out of Saturday\u2019s rematch with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> in Cape Town after picking up a niggle in training earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>The Springbok centurion was selected initially at fullback as one of 10 changes to the run-on team, but has now been replaced by Aphelele Fassi.<\/p>\n<p>Fassi started in the No.15 jersey in last week\u2019s 38-22 defeat to the Wallabies, but was unable to make much of an impression in an attacking sense, carrying for just 29 metres.<\/p>\n<p>With le Roux failing to recover in time, the 27-year-old now gets a chance to redeem himself in what will be his 14th cap.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa \u2013 revised: 15. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/aphelele-fassi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aphelele Fassi<\/a>, 14. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/canan-moodie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canan Moodie<\/a>, 13. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/jesse-kriel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Kriel<\/a>, 12. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/damian-de-allende\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Damian de Allende<\/a>, 11. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/cheslin-kolbe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cheslin Kolbe<\/a>, 10. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/handre-pollard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Handre Pollard<\/a>, 9. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/grant-williams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Williams<\/a>, 8. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/jean-luc-du-preez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jean-Luc du Preez<\/a>, 7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/franco-mostert\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Franco Mostert<\/a>, 6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/marco-van-staden\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco van Staden<\/a>, 5. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/ruan-nortje\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruan Nortje<\/a>, 4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/rg-snyman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RG Snyman<\/a>, 3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/thomas-du-toit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas du Toit<\/a>, 2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/malcolm-marx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malcolm Marx<\/a>, 1. Ox Nche.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: 16. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/marnus-van-der-merwe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marnus van der Merwe<\/a>, 17. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/boan-venter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boan Venter<\/a>, 18. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/wilco-louw\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wilco Louw<\/a>, 19. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/eben-etzebeth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eben Etzebeth<\/a>, 20. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/lodewyk-de-jager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lood de Jager<\/a>, 21. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/kwagga-smith\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kwagga Smith<\/a>, 22. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/jacobus-reinach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cobus Reinach<\/a>, 23. Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willie le Roux has been ruled out of Saturday\u2019s rematch with Australia in Cape Town after picking up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-85568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}