46-19 victory<\/a> over Australia, with Henshaw scoring one of their six tries.<\/p>\nHaving won the Rugby Championship, South Africa are three from three in their November matches in the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n
The Springboks will look to claim a tour clean sweep in Dublin after victories over Japan at Wembley, France and Italy.<\/p>\n
Ireland famously stunned South Africa in the group stages of the 2023 World Cup, and the sides drew a summer series in 2024.<\/p>\n
And Henshaw hopes the Irish can back up their display against the Wallabies with another big performance at Aviva Stadium on Saturday (17:40 GMT).<\/p>\n
“I think they’re the talk of world rugby at the moment in terms of the strength in depth they have, the individual talent,” he said.<\/p>\n
“They’re grinding out results… teams looks like they have them and then they find a way to get back.<\/p>\n
“It’s a proper test for us to see where we’re at. We have gone toe-to-toe with them, from summer last year it was one win each in that series, so I suppose they’ll be looking at that as well. <\/p>\n
“It’s massively exciting because they’re such a proud nation as well and, you know, when we play against them here in Dublin, it’s always a thriller.”<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old believes there is still more to come from Ireland as they look to end 2025 on a high.<\/p>\n
“I think [against Australia] we conceded quite easily in the first half in that second 20 minutes when they got a roll on,” Henshaw added.<\/p>\n
“So, with what’s coming, it’s more of that up-front physicality and big men running down our channels. <\/p>\n
“I think we just need to meet them on the gainline and front up and that’s a thing we’d have to look at, our physicality in around fringes and stopping the momentum of teams.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland centre Robbie Henshaw believes their final autumn nations series fixture against world champions South Africa will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-577930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115569815984826256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}