Pool Match / South Africa V Ireland - September 23rd 2023

For its third match of Rugby World Cup 2023, Stade de France will play host to a battle at the very top, between South Africa and Ireland, on Saturday, September 23, 2023. The draw for this competition offers us a new face-off between two major teams from the northern and southern hemispheres. The two teams have clashed almost thirty times but never in the nine previous editions of Rugby World Cup.

The Irish team with a Shamrock in its emblem represents the unified Ireland (made up of the best players from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). They will challenge the reigning World Champion, South Africa, for what promises to be the final of Pool B. Facing one of the best teams in Europe, repeat winners of the Six Nations Tournament in recent years, the South Africans will have to defend their status with authority and panache. But the Irish won't be of the same mind, and this pool match will be red-hot. Woe betide the defeated, who will have to hope for a spot in the quarter-finals in this very tough Pool B with a resurgent Scotland.

Already winners in France during Rugby World Cup 2007, South Africa will have to be wary of the Irish. Quarter-finalists in the last edition of Rugby World Cup Japan in 2019 and still looking for their first title in this competition, Ireland is a team that never gives up and can count on a passionate public.

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