Germany team for second Brazil test

Germany has made three changes to their starting team to face Brazil at Bruno Place Stadion in Leipzig on Saturday. A victory would give them a perfect November campaign with last week’s 16-6 opening test win over Os Tupis at Heidelberg preceded by a surprise 24-21 upset of Uruguay in Frankfurt.

Jarrid Els and Adriaan Theisinger are absent from the back row giving Sebastian Ferreira a start on the blindside flank with Timo Vollenkemper nominated to replace Theisinger at the back of the scrum. The only backline swap is a start for former skipper Clemens von Grumbkow on the left wing in place of injured Marvin Dieckmann.

Five new names are on the bench. Antony Dickinson replaces Chris Howells as backup tighthead prop while Kehoma Brenner and New Zealand-born Robert May take the vacancies left by Ferreira and Vollenkemper. Rafael Pyrasch is recalled as reserve scrumhalf, and Mark Sztyndera fills in where van Grumbkow was listed a week ago.

Kickoff is set for 2:30pm local time, 11:30am Brazil time.

GERMANY
1 Julius Nostadt, 2 Dasch Barber, 3 Samy Füchsel, 4 Eric Marks, 5 Michael Poppmeier (capt.), 6 Jaco Otto, 7 Sebastian Ferreira, 8 Timo Vollenkemper, 9 Tim Menzel, 10 Raynor Parkinson, 11 Clemens von Grumbkow, 12 Carlos Soteras-Merz, 13 Marcel Coetzee, 14 Steffen Liebig, 15 Harris Aounallah

Replacements: 16 Dale Garner, 17 Jörn Schröder, 18 Antony Dickinson, 19 Robert May, 20 Kehoma Brenner, 21 Rafael Pyrasch, 22 Oliver Paine, 23 Mark Sztyndera