South Africa vs Romania Betting Tips: Predictions & Best Bets

Reigning Rugby World Cup champions South Africa started their 2023 campaign with a battling 18-3 victory over Scotland in their first Group B encounter, but the Springboks should face an easier task in their second clash when they take on Romania, who suffered an absolute drubbing from Ireland, who beat their European counterparts 82-8 last weekend.

With it set to be a one-sided affair, South Africa should run away with it easily and our man Steve Chambers has tried to find two potential value plays in a clash that could see the rugby heavyweights South Africa notch up a hatful of tries against their lowly adversaries...

South Africa vs Romania Tips

Reinach & Le Roux Anytime Tryscorer & South Africa to score over 85.5 pts

With 14 changes to their starting XV, South Africa will have a whole new look for this clash with Romania, but they should still have far too much quality for their opponents Romania and much like Ireland did they can dominate the Europeans, who could be in for another tough encounter.

Available at the meagre odds of 1/1000 with some firms, South Africa are apparently winners before they even step across the white line and while there have been some shocks down the years in the Rugby World Cup this will not be one with the Springboks dominating from the first whistle.

Very little value is available when trying to pick out one occurrence, so bet builders are the way to go and we have picked out a 5/1 bet builder with bet365 bookmakers and it's for scrum half Cobus Reinach and full-back Willie Le Roux to score a try at anytime, while you also need to add in South Africa to score over 85.5 points in the match. 

Faf de Clerk drops to the bench for this clash at No.9 and Reinach will be pulling the strings at the breakdown instead, but he's more than capable of pulling out some magic and he can go over the whitewash, while veteran Le Roux is likely to be playing in his last Rugby World Cup and he will be turning up in all areas and can also score a try. South Africa will be eager to maintain their place towards the summit of the ante-post betting and with tougher tasks ahead they may use this as a game to bang those tries in, so back them to score over 85.5 points to complete the 5/1 bet builder.

South Africa -71.5 on handicap

Romania visibly tired in the closing stages of their drubbing from Ireland as the Irish nearly racked up 50 points in the second half of the game to run out impressive 82-8 winners. It could be a similar story on Sunday and it's worth backing South Africa -71.5 handicap. Romania took a shock lead in that Irish game with the first try of the match, but it was one-way traffic after that and you have to feel that South Africa may be extremely tough to break down for the Romanians.

Add into that the fact the South Africa are extremely impressive with ball in hand and will be dominant at the breakdown then it could well see a few of the Romanians sent to the bin for ten minutes and giving the Springboks some lovely opportunities to rack up the points. Sure to be dominant in all aspects of the pitch, it's worth covering South Africa on the lofty handicap of 71.5 points as they are awash with real star quality and can inflict more misery on Romania, who are certainly here to make the numbers up.