RECAP: Lions v Munster

READERS’ FORUM: Welcome to our live coverage of the rescheduled United Rugby Championship Round Seven match between the Lions and Munster at Ellis Park.

Following a narrow defeat to the Bulls, Munster will want to bounce back and put in a solid shift against the Gauteng franchise.

* To read our pre-match predictions, CLICK HERE!

* Our live blog will appear below, it might take a little while to load, please be patient. We apologise for the inconvenience!

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Teams

Lions: 15 Quan Horn, 14 Stean Pienaar, 13 Wandisile Simelane, 12 Burger Odendaal (Captain), 11 Edwill van der Merwe, 10 Jordan Hendrikse, 9 Morne van den Berg, 8 Francke Horn, 7 Vincent Tshituka, 6 Sibusiso Sangweni, 5 Reinhard Nothnagel, 4 Ruben Schoeman, 3 Carlu Sadie, 2 Jaco Visagie, 1 Sti Sithole,

Replacements: 16 PJ Botha, 17 JP Smith, 18 Ruan Dreyer, 19 Ruan Venter, 20 Emmanuel Tshituka, 21 Nico Steyn /Ginter Smuts, 22 Manuel Rass, 23 Tiaan Swanepoel.

Munster: 15 Mike Haley, 14 Calvin Nash, 13 Chris Farrell, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Shane Daly, 10 Jack Crowley, 9 Neil Cronin, 8 Alex Kendellen, 7 John Hodnett, 6 Jack O’Donoghue (captain), 5 Fineen Wycherley, 4 Jean Kleyn, 3 John Ryan, 2 Niall Scannell, 1 Josh Wycherley

Replacements: 16 Scott Buckley, 17 Mark Donnelly, 18 Keynan Knox, 19 Eoin O’Connor, 20 Chris Cloete, 21 Paddy Patterson, 22 Ben Healy, 23 Liam Coombes

Referee: Adam Jones

Assistant Referees: Cwengile Jadezweni, Paul Mentte

TMO: Chris Busby