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Toyota Cheetahs vs Emirates Lions

The Toyota Cheetah team to take on the Emirates Lions on Saturday, 25 April at 17:05 at the Emirates Airline Park in Johannesburg has been announced.

Changes to the team:

· BG Uys is suffering from a back injury and will be on the side line for about three weeks. He will be replaced by Danie Mienie with Caylib Oosthuizen on the bench.

· Tienie Burger will be replacing Heinrich Brussow who broke his arm during the game against the Reds. Carel Greeff is the replacement.

· Joe Pietersen will start on fullback. Coenie van Wyk was injured in the game against the Reds (ligament – out for approximately four weeks).

· Willie du Plessis will take up the duty as fly half with Clayton Blommetjies on the bench.

The referee for the match is Jaco van Heerden. He will be assisted by Marius van der Westhuizen and Ben Crouse with Johan Greeff as TMO.

Previous encounters

This game will mark the 12th Super Rugby encounter between the two teams since the first on 13 May 2006 at Absa Park in Kimberley.

The Lions are leading with six wins to the five victories of the Toyota Cheetahs.

It will also be the sixth time the teams meet at the Emirates Airline Park – previously known as Ellis Park – since the first Johannesburg encounter on 5 May 2007. Out of the five previous matches in Johannesburg, the Lions won three and the Toyota Cheetahs two games.

The last game between these two teams was on the 5^th of April 2014 at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein and ended in a draw of 43-43.

Toyota Cheetah scores mentioned first:

Date	Venue	Result	Tries
13/5/2006	Absa Park, Kimberley	28-23	2-2
5/5/2007	Ellis Park, Johannesburg	16-10	1-1
16/2/2008	Vodacom Park, Bloemfontein	22-23	3-2
13/2/2009	Coca Cola Park, Johannesburg	28-34	3-4
15/5/2010	North West Stadium, Welkom	59-10	9-1
12/3/2011	Vodacom Park, Bloemfontein	20-25	1-2
6/5/2011	Coca Cola Park, Johannesburg	53-19	5-4
25/2/2012	Coca Cola Park, Johannesburg	25-27	1-0
7/4/2012	Free Stadium, Bloemfontein	26-5	2-1
2013	No match	–	–
15/2/2014	Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein	20-21	2-0
12/7/2014	Ellis Park, Johannesburg	25-60	3-8
25/4/2015	Emirates Airline Park, Johannesburg	0-0	0-0
23/5/2015	Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein	0-0	0-0
Played: 11. Lions won: 6. Cheetahs won: 5. Points scored – Cheetahs: 322. Lions: 257. Tries scored – Cheetahs: 32. Lions: 25. Average score – 29-23 to the Cheetahs. Stats by Frikkie Janse van Rensburg

Toyota Cheetahs vs Emirates Lions

NO.	POSITION	NAME
1	LOOSEHEAD PROP	Danie Mienie
2	HOOKER	Torsten van Jaarsveld
3	TIGHTHEAD PROP	Coenie Oosthuizen
4	LEFT LOCK	Carl Wegner
5	RIGHT LOCK	Francois Uys ( c )
6	LEFT FLANKER	Tienie Burger
7	RIGHT FLANKER	Boom Prinsloo
8	NUMBER EIGHT	Willie Britz
9	SCRUMHALF	Sarel Pretorius ( vc )
10	FLYHALF	Willie du Plessis
11	LEFT WING	Ryno Benjamin
12	INSIDE CENTRE	Francois Venter
13	OUTSIDE CENTRE	Johann Sadie
14	RIGHT WING	Cornal Hendricks
15	FULLBACK	Joe Pietersen
REPLACEMENTS:
16.	RESERVE	Stephan Coetzee
17.	RESERVE	Caylib Oosthuizen
18.	RESERVE	Maks van Dyk
19.	RESERVE	Steven Sykes
20.	RESERVE	Carel Greeff
21.	RESERVE	Tian Meyer
22.	RESERVE	Michael van der Spuy
23.	RESERVE	Clayton Blommetjies