The last team these two teams met in a Jukskei derby at Loftus Versfeld was on 6 January when the Bulls beat the Lions 22-15.

The Lions captain and Springbok flyhalf, Elton Jantjies, suggested that they will take points whenever there is an opportunity.

 “Tiaan (Swanepoel) showed us that he can kick the ball miles, and he kicks it well, so it's definitely something that we will use.

As the coach said, the weekend we will just focus on ourselves as a collective.

We had a massive revue following the previous game against the Bulls and a lot of positives came out of that game.

We just want to control the tempo of the game with or without the ball. That is going to be massive for us and we just want to us the opportunity.

Kick-off for this semi-final in Pretoria is at 14:00, while at 16:30, Western Province tackle the Sharks at Newlands.

Bulls - 15 David Kriel, 14 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 13 Stedman Gans, 12 Cornal Hendricks, 11 Stravino Jacobs, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Ivan van Zyl, 8 Duane Vermeulen (captain), 7 Elrigh Louw, 6 Marco van Staden, 5 Ruan Nortje, 4 Sintu Manjezi, 3 Trevor Nyakane, 2 Schalk Erasmus, 1 Lizo Gqoboka.

Replacements - 16 Johan Grobbelaar, 17 Jacques van Rooyen, 18 Mornay Smith, 19 Jan Uys, 20 Arno Botha, 21 Embrose Papier, 22 Chris Smith, 23 Marco Jansen van Vuren.

Lions – 15 Tiaan Swanepoel, 14 Stean Pienaar, 13 Wandisile Simelane, 12 Burger Odendaal, 11 Courtnall Skosan, 10 Elton Jantjies (captain), 9 André Warner, 8 Len Massyn, 7 Vincent Tshituka, 6 Jaco Kriel, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Willem Alberts, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Jaco Visagie, 1 Sti Sithole.

Replacements - 16 Jan-Henning Campher, 17 Ruan Dreyer, 18 Carlu Sadie, 19 Reinhard Nothnagel, 20 Wilhelm van der Sluys, 21 Morné van den Berg, 22 Dan Kriel, 23 Francke Horn, 24 Nathan McBeth, 25 EW Viljoen, 26 Ross Cronjé.

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