Lions head coach, Ivan van Rooyen believes his team have confidence going into Friday’s game after a winning start to their campaign last week. The Lions beat the Italian outfit, Zebre, 38-26 in Parma.

“We appreciate that Scarlets will pose a different challenge for us, but we are confident the players selected will once more aim for a positive result tomorrow.

“The team has prepared well in the lead-up to tomorrow, with a few productive planning sessions on and off the training field.

“Last week we spoke about momentum and that's what we would like maintain from here onwards.”

Friday evening’s game against the former PRO Rugby champions kicks off at 20:35.

Lions - 15 EW Viljoen, 14 Jamba Ulengo, 13 Wandisile Simelane, 12 Burger Odendaal (captain), 11 Rabz Maxwane, 10 Jordan Hendrikse, 9 André Warner, 8 Francke Horn, 7 Vincent Tshituka, 6 Jaco Kriel, 5 Pieter Jansen van Vuren, 4 Ruebn Schoeman, 3 Carlu Sadie, 2 Jaco Visagie, 1 Raun Dreyer.

Replacements - 16 PJ Botha 17 Sti Sithole 18 Asenathi Ntlabakanye 19 Reinhard Nothnagel 20 Sibusiso Sangweni 21 Morne van den Berg 22 Eddie Fouche 23 Divan Rossouw.