Odendaal will be playing at home for the last time before heading to the English Premiership team, Wasps.

The game will also be the Lions' last in the competition this year as they have no chance of making the playoffs.

“I'm really excited to hit the pitch again and hopefully we can rectify the mistakes that we made last weekend.

“The vibe in the team is really good and we are really excited to play our last home game.

“I'm not putting too much emotion in it and it's the old cliché of play as if it's your last game.

“I'm just hoping that I can put in another good performance this weekend.”

Saturday afternoon’s game at Ellis Park kicks off at 14:00.

Friday night at 19:00 the Bulls tackle Glasgow Warriors at Loftus Versfeld, while on Saturday at 16:05 the Sharks face Connacht and at 18:15 the Stormers go up against Leinster.

Lions - 15 Quan Horn, 14 Stean Pienaar, 13 Wandisile Simelane, 12 Burger Odendaal (captain), 11 Edwill van der Merwe, 10 Jordan Hendrikse, 9 Morné van den Berg, 8 Emmanuel Tshituka, 7 Vincent Tshituka, 6 Francke Horn, 5 Reinhard Nothnagel, 4 Ruben Schoeman, 3 Carlu Sadie, 2 PJ Botha, 1 JP Smith.

Replacements - 16 Jaco Visagie, 17 Sti Sithole, 18 Ruan Dreyer, 19 Ruan Venter, 20 Sibusiso Sangweni, 21 André Warner, 22 Manuel Rass, 23 Tiaan Swanepoel.

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