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Saturday, kick-off 14:30TwickenhamEddie Jones England look set to end a 10-year run without a win against South Africa when an under-performing Springboks side take to the field at Twickenham on Saturday.?As they look to continue their 100 percent record under Jones, there has not been a better time to face the Boks, whose most recent performance saw them struggle to draw against the Barbarians last week.In stark contrast, England bossed Australia in their 3-0 series win in the summer and despite a few injuries, their players come into the November international window on the back of some very good club form.?A disappointing Rugby Championship for?Allister Coetzees side culminated in a 57-15 defeat at home to the All Blacks. It is difficult to find a time where expectation was lower among their fans and there is little to show that they will turn things around against England, and push their unbeaten run against them to 13 games.Team newsCourtney Lawes is set to win his 50th cap in a pack that has seen its back-row options limited with James Haskell, Maro Itoje, Jack Clifford, Sam Jones and Mike Williams all missing out through injury. The raft of injuries has given Tom Wood his first opportunity to start for England since the World Cup.?Wasps Elliot Daly got the nod at centre in place of Jonathan Joseph, while Jones will hope the George Ford/Owen Farrell, 10/12 axis, will continue to blossom. On the bench the prospect of Ben Teo will excite English fans, with the centre bringing physicality and neat footwork to the back-line. If he, Kyle Sinckler or Nathan Hughes make an appearance, it will be their first run-out in an England shirt.Springboks head coach Allister Coetzee opted to leave out Bryan Habana from the matchday squad, although the Toulon winger looked to have shaken off a knee injury. He has gone for brute force in his pack, with Lood de Jager, Willem Alberts and Pieter-Steph du Toit providing both physicality and size. They were all replacements in Octobers defeat to the All Blacks and much is expected from all three to enforce their game on England.Damian de Allende and Pat Lambie are the sole survivors from the team that started the defeat to New Zealand in the back-line, but Lambie switches from fullback to fly-half for Saturdays clash.England: Brown, Yarde, Daly, Farrell, May, Ford, Youngs; M. Vunipola, Hartley (captain), Cole, Launchbury, Lawes, Robshaw, Wood, B. VunipolaReplacements:?George, Marler, Sinckler, Attwood, Hughes, Care, Teo, JosephSouth Africa:?Le Roux, Combrinck, Venter, de Allende, Pietersen, Lambie, Paige; Mtawarira, Strauss, Koch, Etzebeth, de Jager, Alberts, du Toit, WhiteleyReplacements:?Mbonambi, Kitshoff, Adriaanse, Mostert, Carr, de Klerk, Goosen, Mapoe.Key head-to-headWhat difference can three players make? That is the big question as South Africa look to avoid a similar thumping to that which was inflicted upon them a month ago. Their pack is not the once feared and all-dominating pack of old. In contrast England come into the game having destroyed Australia up front in the summer and in Mako Vunipola have arguably the best prop in world rugby. He has been in terrifying form for Saracens and if he and brother Billy can have the same influence on Saturday, that they have had at club level, it will decide the outcome. ?Key stats*Englands only decent result against South Africa in 10 years came in the 2012 12-12 draw in South Africa.*Eddie Jones has a 100 percent record since taking charge of England, who are on a 10-game winning streak.*England have won just 12 of the 37 games between the sides, with two draws.WeatherBoth sets of fans will hope the rain forecast will avoid Twickenham for a few hours on Saturday. If it doesnt it could be a very attritional and punishing game for both forward packs.?PredictionEngland will put an end to their abysmal record against the Boks. Eddie Jones side showed in the summer that even when series victory is ensured, there is no let up in their intent. That could spell disaster for South Africa who are still no clearer in knowing which way they should play under?Allister Coetzee. 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Yujie Sun got China back within 30-25 ahead of its final bout before four crucial early scores from Popescu.Up five with less than 10 seconds to go, Popescus highly unorthodox leap and stab clinched it for her country.It wasnt strategy. I just wanted to try, Popescu said. It was the moment because for me, fencing is like a show. You must do it until the end. Like a show.Russia beat Estonia 37-31 to claim bronze and an Olympic-leading fifth fencing medal.Violetta Kolobova clinched the bout with 12 touches in the final match, and got so excited that she slammed her foot on the piste with the match all but over.That drew a sharp rebuke from the crowd, but that was qquickly forgotten as Kolobova and her teammates celebrated bronze.ddddddddddddThe United States continued its impressive showing in fencing at the Rio Games, finishing a respectable fifth in the womens team epee event.The seventh-ranked quartet of sisters Courtney and Kelley Hurley, Katharine Holmes and Katarzyna Trzopek lost to Romania 24-23 to open the event. But they rallied to beat a strong French side 32-28 and got past South Korea 22-18 to finish fifth.It did not go our way this time, but we can walk away from that bout knowing that theres absolutely nothing more that we couldve done. We prepared perfectly and we fenced perfectly, Holmes said. We were a team. Im not a Hurley, but I felt like one of their sisters.The U.S., not typically considered among the worlds top fencing nations, has won a pair of silver individual medals (Alexander Massialas, Daryl Homer) so far. And the Americans, led by Massialas, are considered a strong gold medal contender Friday in mens team foil. ' ' '