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Pumas lock recovers in time to take on Brumbies

Guido Petti rises high for the Jaguares. (Photo by Marcelelo Endelli / Getty Images)

Jaguares coach Gonzalo Quesada has named Guido Petti in a full-strength squad for the Super Rugby semi-final against the ACT Brumbies after the lock recovered from an ankle injury.

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The 45-Test Pumas forward was a doubt for Friday’s (Saturday AEST) match after spraining his right ankle in last week’s 21-16 quarter-final win over the Chiefs, but will now take his place in the second row alongside Tomas Lavanini.

Petti, 24, has been in fine form this year with more lineout wins than any other player in the competition, although Brumbies locks Rory Arnold and Sam Carter are second and third in the rankings.

Prop Enrique Pieretto and flanker Marcos Kremer have also recovered from injuries sustained last week to take their place in the squad, but the latter has been relegated to the bench with Tomas Lezana starting at openside.

In the only other change to the squad, Pumas flyer Ramiro Moyano comes onto the bench as outside back c over in place of youngster Santiago Carreras after being sidelined by injury for the last three matches.

The Argentine side, who won the South African conference, will be playing their first Super Rugby semi-final against two-times champion Brumbies at the Jose Amalfitani Stadium.

Nine-times champion the Crusaders take on the Wellington Hurricanes in the other, all-New Zealand, semi-final in Christchurch on Saturday.

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Jaguares: Emiliano Boffelli, Sebastian Cancelliere, Matias Orlando, Jeronimo de la Fuente (c), Matias Moroni, Joaquin Diaz Bonilla, Tomas Cubelli, Javier Ortega Desio, Tomas Lezana, Pablo Matera, Tomas Lavanini, Guido Petti, Santiago Medrano, Agustin Creevy, Mayco Vivas. Reserves: Julian Montoya, Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, Enrique Pieretto, Marcos Kremer, Francisco Gorrissen, Felipe Ezcurra, Domingo Miotti, Ramiro Moyano.

– AAP

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Flankly 2 hours ago
'Absolute madness': Clive Woodward rips into Borthwick in wake of NZ loss

Borthwick is supposed to be the archetypical conservative coach, the guy that might not deliver a sparkling, high-risk attacking style, but whose teams execute the basics flawlessly. And that's OK, because it can be really hard to beat teams that are rock solid and consistent in the rugby equivalent of "blocking and tackling".


But this is why the performance against NZ is hard to defend. You can forgive a conservative, back-to-basics team for failing to score tons of tries, because teams like that make up for it with reliability in the simple things. They can defend well, apply territorial pressure, win the set piece battles, and take their scoring chances with metronomic goal kicking, maul tries and pick-and-go goal line attacks.


The reason why the English rugby administrators should be on high alert is not that the English team looked unable to score tries, but that they were repeatedly unable to close out a game by executing basic, coachable skills. Regardless of how they got to the point of being in control of their destiny, they did get to that point. All that was needed was to be world class at things that require more training than talent. But that training was apparently missing, and the finger has to point at the coach.


Borthwick has been in the job for nearly two years, a period that includes two 6N programs and an RWC campaign. So where are the solid foundations that he has been building?

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