Ospreys storm to bonus-point victory in Bridgend

United Rugby Championship: Ospreys v Stormers

Venue: Dunraven Brewery Field, Bridgend Date: Saturday, 28 September Kick off19:35 BST

Coverage: Live connected S4C, iPlayer and BBC Sport website and app, followed by study and reaction.

Scrum-half Reuben Morgan-Williams will make his 100th quality for unchanged Ospreys erstwhile they big Stormers successful nan United Rugby Championship (URC) connected Saturday.

Head coach Toby Booth has stuck pinch nan starting broadside that mislaid their opener 23-21 against Dragons.

Booth has, however, changed nan full beforehand statement replacements pursuing that late nonaccomplishment successful Newport pinch Ethan Lewis, Garyn Phillips and Ben Warren connected nan bench.

Former Exeter and Ulster back-row Dave Ewers makes his debut for Stormers, who play their first crippled of nan play pursuing an agreed delayed commencement for South African teams owed to their home Currie Cup tournament.

The lucifer has been switched to Bridgend's Dunraven Brewery Field because of a fixture conflict astatine Swansea.com Stadium pinch venue landlords Swansea City.

Bridgend has hosted Ospreys successful nan past, including a festive triumph successful nan mud against Cardiff past season.

"We person ever loved nan crowd there," said Booth.

"It’s been fantastic. You cognize you tin usage nan ambiance and nan proximity of nan fans to nan transportation to your advantage. So hopefully a batch of group travel to watch."

Booth hopes his broadside tin retrieve from a nonaccomplishment and repetition their heroics of April erstwhile a 27-21 bonus-point triumph complete Stormers successful Cape Town helped them scope nan URC play-offs, nan only Welsh squad to do so.

"The Stormers are a big, beingness squad that play a somewhat different crippled to nan different South African teams," said Booth.

"They play positive, person bully athletes and will effort to agelong you by keeping nan crippled quick.

"It’s going to beryllium a protect situation for us, which is akin to what we had retired location (last season). The bully point is that we’ve knowledgeable it and came distant pinch a triumph successful that type of game, truthful we’ll beryllium looking to do that again."

Stormers, quarter-finalists successful nan URC past season, invited backmost Springbok full-back Damien Willemse from a four-month wounded but are without fly-half Manie Libbok who starts for South Africa against Argentina.

Ospreys: Jack Walsh; Luke Morgan, Owen Watkin, Keiran Williams, Ryan Conbeer; Dan Edwards, Reuben Morgan-Williams; Gareth Thomas, Dewi Lake, Tom Botha, James Ratti, Adam Beard, Jac Morgan (capt), Justin Tipuric, Morgan Morris.

Replacements: Ethan Lewis, Garyn Phillips. Ben Warren. Huw Sutton, Harri Deaves, Luke Davies, Phil Cokanasiga, Max Nagy.

Stormers: Damian Willemse; Suleiman Hartzenberg, Ruhan Nel, Dan du Plessis (capt), Leolin Zas; Jurie Matthee, Paul de Wet; Sti Sithole, Joseph Dweba, Neethling Fouche, JD Schickerling, Ruben van Heerden, Marcel Theunissen, Dave Ewers, Keke Morabe.

Replacements: Andre-Hugo Venter, Leon Lyons, Brok Harris, Adre Smith, Ben-Jason Dixon, Stefan Ungerer, Jean-Luc du Plessis, Angelo Davids.

Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU, 96th game)

Assistant referees: Rhys Jones, Ben Connor (WRU)

TMO: Olly Hodges (IRFU)