Autumn International: Italy host South Africa at the Stadio Euganeo

Samuela Vunisa: Set to make his debut against South Africa

South Africa are going for their 12th consecutive win over Italy when the two sides clash at the Stadio Euganeo on Saturday.

The Springboks head into the game on a high, following their 31-28 success over England at Twickenham last weekend.

Head coach Heyneke Meyer has made four changes to his starting line-up, as well as five changes to the replacements’ bench

Trevor Nyakane will start his first Test at loosehead prop after winning 11 caps as a replacement, while Coenie Oosthuizen has been promoted from the bench to replace the injured Jannie du Plessis at tighthead.

Teboho Mohoje returns at flanker in place of Schalk Burger and Johan Goosen will start at full-back with Willie le Roux rested.

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South Africa's Schalk Burger talks to Will Greenwood about his try during his team's victory over England at Twickenham.

Loose forward Nizaam Carr and prop Julian Redelinghuys have both been included in the matchday 23 for the first time after being named on the bench, while prop Gurthro Steenkamp, lock Lood de Jager and Le Roux are also among the replacements.

Meyer said: “The Italian pack is always formidable and their backs are not scared of taking chances.

“Our focus is to show improvements from our performance at Twickenham and we know it will be a big challenge on Saturday.

Few shifts

Trevor Nyakane: Will start his first Test for the Springboks

“We planned to make a few shifts for this Test as I'd like to see if these players can make the step up.

“The guys coming in deserve their opportunities and seeing that we won't have our overseas-based players available next week against Wales, it made sense to bring a few of them in this week."

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Sergio Parisse scores a great try for Italy against Samoa.

For Italy, Samuela Vunisa will make his debut in Padua in the only change to the side that lost 20-18 to Argentina last week.

Vunisa will replace Simone Favaro in the back row after the Treviso player suffered a sore neck in training, while coach Jacques Brunel has switched Leonardo Sarto to the right wing with Luke McLean going the other way to the left.

Brunel, whose side defeated Samoa 24-13 in their opening Test of the autumn, said: "After the first two games against Samoa and Argentina we were satisfied at how the team performed so we thought it was only fair to confirm the line-up that has impressed in recent weeks.”

Italy: 15 Andrea Masi, 14 Leonardo Sarto, 13 Michele Campagnaro, 12 Luca Morisi, 11 Luke Mclean, 10 Kelly Haimona, 9 Edoardo Gori; 1 Matias Aguero, 2 Leonardo Ghiraldini, 3 Martin Castrogiovanni, 4 Quintin Geldenhuys, 5 Joshua Furno, 6 Alessandro Zanni, 7 Samuela Vunisa, 8 Sergio Parisse (capt)
Replacements:16 Andrea Manici, 17 Alberto De Marchi, 18 Dario Chistolini, 19 Marco Bortolami, 20 Francesco Minto, 21 Guglielmo Palazzani, 22 Luciano Orquera, 23 Giulio Toniolatti.

South Africa: 15 Johan Goosen, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Jan Serfontein, 12 Jean de Villiers (capt), 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Pat Lambie, 9 Cobus Reinach; 1 Trevor Nyakane, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 3 Coenie Oosthuizen, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 5 Victor Matfield, 6 Marcell Coetzee, 7 Teboho Mohojoe, 8 Duane Vermeulen.
Replacements: 16 Bismark du Plessis, 17 Gurthro Steenkamp, 18 Julian Redelinghuys, 19 Lood de Jager, 20 Nizaam Carr, 21 Francois Hougaard, 22 Handre Pollard, 23 Willie le Roux.

Watch Italy v South Africa on Sky Sports 2HD from 1.30pm on Saturday