Wing Josh Adams says Wales must front up physically and “stay in the fight” if the Welsh have any hopes of toppling the world champion Springboks on Saturday.
Steve Tandy’s men head to Durban for the Nations Championship Test after a 35-21 defeat to Argentina, while the Boks have opened their campaign with big wins over England and Scotland.
Adams expects Wales to face the tough challenge at Kings Park this week, with the Cardiff winger saying the match will reveal how far the team has progressed.
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“There’s probably no harder Test,” he said. “It’s certainly something that will test this group and it’ll probably answer a lot of questions about where we are.
“How can we react from the Argentina game? The physicality, contact area, movement is all magnified against a team like South Africa so we have to be at the races.
“We can talk about lots of areas of the game, but we’ve got to move quickly, hit hard and stay in the fight. Those are the simple things we need to work on this week.”
The teams last met in November, when South Africa inflicted Wales’ heaviest home defeat with a 73-0 victory.
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Reflecting on the loss to the Pumas, Adams pinpointed the fundamentals that let Wales down: “We were just slightly off it around our physicality, first-time tackles, speed around the ruck – the basics where you need to be at it at this level.
“We still managed to find ourselves in the Test match and it was going back and forth until they pulled away with a couple of scores before half-time.
“Argentina are a good team when they stay on top of you and if you are not at it in the areas that I have mentioned – and with your discipline – then teams will punish you.”
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