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The Stormers have maintained some remarkable form in 2023 as they claimed a bonus-point victory over London Irish on Sunday, and they now require just one more log point to secure their place in the Champions Cup playoffs.

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However, the Cape side will be without flyhalf Manie Libbok when they take on Clermont in Cape Town on Saturday, with the Springbok newcomer having been on the receiving end of a head-on-head clash this past weekend.

“Manie got a knock to his head and failed his HIA,” Stormers coach John Dobson confirmed after the game. “A joke was that he failed on the ‘language test’. But, it’s a concussion and he’ll have to go through the whole protocol now.

“We’ve got options at 10. We had trained Sacha at 15 and 12 for this game, so it was probably a mistake to put him straight on at 10 on my part,” Dobson added. “But obviously Sacha is an option at 10, so is Damian Willemse, as are Jean-Luc du Plessis and Kade Wolhuter. We’ll be fine there.”

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SCORERS ON SUNDAY

Stormers

Tries: Penalty try, Nel, Hartzenberg, Davids
Conversions: Feinberg-Mngomezulu (3)

London Irish

Tries: Penalty try, Fischetti
Conversion: Jennings

TEAMS

London Irish

15 Ben Loader, 14 Lucio Cinti, 13 Luca Morisi, 12 Benhard van Rensburg, 11 Ollie Hassell-Collins, 10 Rory Jennings, 9 Ben White, 8 Matt Rogerson (captain), 7 Tom Pearson, 6 Juan Martin Gonzalez, 5 Rob Simmons, 4 Api Ratuniyarawa, 3 Lovejoy Chawatama, 2 Mike Willemse, 1 Will Goodrick-Clarke

Replacements: 16 Ignacio Ruiz, 17 Danilo Fischetti, 18 Ciaran Parker, 19 Chunya Munga, 20 Josh Basham, 21 Chandler Cunningham-South, 22 Joe Powell, 23 Michael Dykes

Stormers

15. Damian Willemse, 14. Suleiman Hartzenberg, 13. Ruhan Nel, 12. Daniel du Plessis, 11. Angelo Davids, 10. Manie Libbok, 9. Paul de Wet, 8. Hacjivah Dayimani, 7. Junior Pokomela, 6. Deon Fourie, 5. Marvin Orie, 4. Connor Evans, 3. Neethling Fouche, 2. Joseph Dweba, 1. Steven Kitshoff (captain)

Replacements: 16. Andre Venter, 17. Ali Vermaak, 18. Brok Harris, 19. Simon Miller, 20. BJ Dixon, 21. Willie Engelbrecht, 22. Stefan Ungerer, 23. Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu