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Six changes for Argentina, uncapped U20 also named on their bench

By Liam Heagney

39 days ago

Argentina players during their recent win over Uruguay (Photo by Gaspafotos/MB Media/Getty Images)

Argentina have named a team to face New Zealand showing six changes from their recent win over Uruguay. Los Pumas followed up their drawn series versus France with a record 79-5 victory over Uruguay at Punta del Este on July 20 and they have now made two alterations to their pack and four in the backline for their opening-round match of The Rugby Championship in Wellington.

Both changes in the pack are in the back row with Pablo Matera returning to skipper from blindside in place of Joaquin Moro and Juan Martin Gonzalez named at No8 instead of Joaquin Oviedo.

In the backs, Santiago Carreras is at fly-half for Tomas Albornoz. Lucio Cinti is at midfield for Jeronimo de la Fuente, Matias Moroni takes over from Ignacio Mendy on the right wing while Juan Cruz Mallia is at full-back for Santiago Cordero.

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An exciting bench development is the inclusion of the uncapped Efrain Elias, the new Toulouse recruit who impressively skippered Argentina to a fifth-place finish at the recent World Rugby U20 Championship in Cape Town.

Argentina (vs New Zealand, Saturday)
1. GALLO Thomas (26 caps)
2. RUIZ Ignacio (10 caps)
3. BELLO Eduardo (24 caps)
4. MOLINA Franco (3 caps)
5. RUBIOLO Pedro (12 caps)
6. MATERA Pablo (101 caps, captain)
7. KREMER Marcos (67 caps, vice-captain)
8. GONZALEZ Juan Martin (31 caps)
9. BERTRANOU Gonzalo (60 caps)
10. CARRERAS Santiago (45 caps)
11. CARRERAS Mateo (20 caps)
12. CHOCOBARES Santiago (21 caps)
13. CINTI Lucio (23 caps)
14. MORONI Matias (82 caps)
15. MALLIA Juan Cruz (33 caps, vice-captain)

Replacements:
16. CREEVY Agustin (108 caps)
17. VIVAS Mayco (24 caps)
18. SCLAVI Joel (18 caps)
19. ELIAS Efrain (uncapped)
20. LAVANINI Tomas (86 caps)
21. OVIEDO Joaquin (5 caps)
22. BAZAN VELEZ Lautaro (15 caps)
23. ALBORNOZ Thomas (8 caps)

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OJohn 8 minutes ago

Why the rest of the rugby world is worried about Australia

Well done, somebody else has figured out Donaldson is completely hopeless. But he's from Randwick so gets a free ride in the Wallabies. If Schmidt is such an amazing coach, how come he is selecting Donaldson ? He is either an incompetent fool or he is just stroking his Tah master's ego. Same for Gordon.

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OJohn 12 minutes ago

Why the rest of the rugby world is worried about Australia

The Tahs Peter Horne and Phil Waugh have Schmidt in their pocket. That's the only explanation for why Gordon and Donaldson are playing for the Wallabies. Neither of them are in the top three or even 5 best players in their position that Australia has. They will stick with Schmidt because they will take Rugby Australia down with them to protect the Tahs self entitled egos.

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OJohn 15 minutes ago

Why the rest of the rugby world is worried about Australia

But because Schmidt has very cleverly refused to select them so far they will take time to integrate in to the team. He's a very cunning kiwi like Deans and Rennie. Don't select the best players for the Wallabies. Let them fail. Then select a new bunch of players who don't have time to gel before the next challenge. It's either completely incompetent selecting and coaching or it is deliberate sabotage. Personally I think it is deliberate sabotage which funnily enough, is hurting NZ too.

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Hellhound 20 minutes ago

'With near-religious conviction, how good does it feel to be a Bok fan?'

Nope. The Boks vs AB's rivalry is over 100 years old. Ireland's rivalry is a baby compared to it. This rivalry barely started. Give it another 90 years, with the Irish continuesly a big threat. Until then, the Irish is just coat tail riders trying to make money from a non existent rivalry.

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Hellhound 37 minutes ago

'With near-religious conviction, how good does it feel to be a Bok fan?'

Spectacular fail at whatever point you were trying to make. The Boks currently is unbeatable, using 2 different teams, 3 different times during this RC. How many teams can claim that? Now because nothing the haters say matters as everyone sees their willful hate speech for what it is, you try to pop in the political scene of SA as some reason that makes no sense at all. The political situation in SA is highly volatile, the country's crime rate is through the roof and it's not a safe country, no matter how beautiful it is. Which just makes what the SPRINGBOKS did, and is still doing that much more AMAZING. For such a broken country to bring forth such talent and for such racist people (just not true) to work together to go back to back WC champs, nevermind all the other current achievements, they seem to be united in passion and love for the sport that no other country possess. Who are you to try and minimise what other people go through? To make lite of our hardships? Our struggles? What a small excuse of a cockroach you are. You should be ashamed

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Toaster 48 minutes ago

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He’s 106kg

Needs to stack some weight on

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Toaster 59 minutes ago

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Great player but no real sob story about him leaving

He was up against Nonu Smith and SBW

He was a good player then but Ireland have made him a great player

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Vlad 1 hour ago

It’s second chance Saturday for Ireland in men's world rankings

Bullshit. You made a factually incorrect statement and then contradicted yourself. Instead of manning up you twist yourself into indefensible and illogical statements because your inferiority complex is so gargantuan that you cannot bear the thought that some anonymous person on the internet got the better of you.

You're a very sad little man.

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Vlad 1 hour ago

It’s second chance Saturday for Ireland in men's world rankings

"The RWC is a joke"

"The arrogant boasting of the two teams in question just emphasizes the clown show."

But you'd trade the #1 ranking for a RWC title...

That's my explanation. It's sad that you cannot understand it. But, then again, you are a low IQ moron.

To reiterate: Not just an idiot, but a clown too.

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Terry24 1 hour ago

It’s second chance Saturday for Ireland in men's world rankings

I made a statement which holds through for this argument. Th exception proves the rule. You are too much of a moron to be able to differentiate between general and trivial. Are you from SA? I know they are not all as dumb as you there.

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Terry24 1 hour ago

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They should have thrown him a rugby ball, tackled him, declared him 'wrong side of the ruck' and studded the f**k out of him, 90s style, until his bodyguards broke it up.

NZ needs to stop this love affair with a monarchy. Having a European 'King of New Zealand' on the other side of the planet tying NZ to an undignified colonial history is something that the modern country should be able to move beyond.

The retort that the monarchy is now a benign institution does not bear any real scrutiny.

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Vlad 1 hour ago

It’s second chance Saturday for Ireland in men's world rankings

Oh right, now I'm agreeing with someone who posted something completely different? Only in your deranged mind, you addlepated f-wit.

YOU made a statement and the YOU contradicted yourself. Now you're trying to weasel out of mit by making all kinds of illogical mental leaps. You're not just a moron, you're the king of morons.

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Deplorable 1 hour ago

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So 21 years with a variety of coaches and still no Bledisloe in the cabinet???

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Terry24 1 hour ago

It’s second chance Saturday for Ireland in men's world rankings

What part of that statement do you disagree with?

You do need some substantiation to call people names, so if youre not the clown/idiot, give us some substantiation...what part of that statement do you disagree with? If you can't explain it, you're a low IQ moron. (Think we both know the answer here)

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Terry24 1 hour ago

It’s second chance Saturday for Ireland in men's world rankings

Whether World rugby gives teams .05 of a point for hammering a minnow or rounds it down to zero are both trivial in terms of the rankings. You don't get points for hammering minnows but in general you get points for beating opponents who are not relavent minnows. Your point is for anoraks, its irrelevant to this conversation.

I was replying to an idiot who maintained that Ireland benefitted from a biased ranking system. You seemed to be agreeing with this? Otherwise toss off you numbskull.

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Terry24 1 hour ago

What Tom Curry said when asked would he shake Bongi Mbonambi's hand

Don't like these questions trying to reignite a row.

Curry and Bongi know what happenned there.

Regardless of what was said the English media's reaction was f***ing outrageous.

Clearly most of the self righteousness was sour grapes for losing the semi. Dominating the pre final interviews with self important scores of questions re CurryGate and nothing on the rugby is unforgivable.

Solisi said that the English media is F**ked up.

It is all about England winning, no matter what the sport: and they will turn on everyone and anyone when that doesn't happen as it sells papers for him. In 2023 it was Bongi. The papers in question could honestly not give a flying f**k about racism. On the country they spend their time attacking minorities and non -whites.

So when the great SA captain says they are f***ed up. He is right on many levels.

Diego Maradona was the greatest soccer player to play the game. But his entire legacy in England the supposed 'home of rugby' was his handball against them. 40 years later at his death they were still going on about it. Gladly he was still taking the piss of them over it til the end!

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Vlad 1 hour ago

It’s second chance Saturday for Ireland in men's world rankings

"Ireland were number one for most of 2022/2023. So what?

We'd trade it for a RWC win obviously."

Not just an idiot, but a clown too.

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B 2 hours ago

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all other things being equal Scott Robertson will get Leicester back in black for RWC 2027...

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Vlad 2 hours ago