[2022 Rugby Championship] Round 2 Argentina vs Australia (13/08/2022)

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

Date: Saturday, August 13
Venue: Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario, San Juan
Kick-off: 16:10 local (20:10 BST, 19:10 GMT)
Referee: Karl Dickson (England)
Assistant Referees: Mike Adamson (Scotland), Chris Busby (Ireland)
TMO: Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)

Argentina: 15 Juan Cruz Mallia, 14 Emiliano Boffelli, 13 Matias Moroni, 12 Jeronimo De La Fuente, 11 Juan Imhoff, 10 Santiago Carreras, 9 Gonzalo Bertranou, 8 Pablo Matera, 7 Marcos Kremer, 6 Juan Martin Gonzalez, 5 Tomas Lavanini, 4 Matias Alemanno, 3 Francisco Gomez Kodela, 2 Julian Montoya (c), 1 Thomas Gallo

Replacements: 16 Agustin Creevy, 17 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, 18 Joel Sclavi, 19 Facundo Isa, 20 Rodrigo Bruni, 21 Tomas Cubelli, 22 Tomas Albornoz, 23 Lucio Cinti

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

Australia: 15 Tom Wright, 14 Jordan Petaia, 13 Len Ikitau, 12 Lalakai Foketi, 11 Marika Koroibete, 10 James O'Connor, 9 Nic White, 8 Rob Valetini, 7 Fraser McReight, 6 Jed Holloway, 5 Darcy Swain, 4 Rory Arnold, 3 Taniela Tupou, 2 Folau Fainga'a, 1 James Slipper (c)

Replacements: 16 Lachlan Lonergan, 17 Matt Gibbon, 18 Pone Fa'amausili, 19 Nick Frost, 20 Pete Samu, 21 Tate McDermott, 22 Irae Simone, 23 Reece Hodge

 

[Ferrari333SP]

Argentina starting hot

 

[Groundhog]

What a bullshit penalty. Flipped him over lol

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

Dickson is the worst thing that has ever happened to rugby

 

[Ferrari333SP]

What a crazy half so far

 

[Ferrari333SP]

Argentina is ON FIRE

 

[Groundhog]

This is such an odd game. Argentina running away with it mostly on the back of some freak errors by the Aussies

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

Why isnt O connor taking all the kicks?

 

[Ferrari333SP]

The attacking flair and power of this Argentina team is fantastic

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

idk how the coms are complaining about that penalty. Turning into the guy who just kicked the ball is not a natural continuation of that motion. Lucky the kick was so **** or it would be a yellow.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Australia are a mess,
3 on 1 and he just throws a wild miss pass offload into touch

 

[Ferrari333SP]

Argentina simply sublime all game

 

[Ferrari333SP]

OMGGGG

 

[Ferrari333SP]

Argentina now top of the Rugby Championship table, hahaha

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Terrible attitude from Oz. Great result for the Pumas.

 

[FNS]

48 to 17. What a game.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

Argentina definitely the better team on the day and they certainly have showed they can compete with anyone right now but the wallabies should be ashamed of that effort.

Being in the right place is combination of hard work and skill so hats off to Argentina.

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

 

[saulan]

I wish Argentina would play like this on their NH tours. They consistently pull off some big results in TRC but they never really pitch up up north. I always worry about our Argentina games, but over the years on the forum I've gotten the sense it's just an expected walkover in Autumn from the NH (and sadly it often is. Not a smashing always, but just consistent wins).

Massive result here after last weekend. Completely outplayed Australia and makes the rest of the tournament very interesting. Kicking game worked well with great chasers. Even their phase play felt like they were making good ground most plays. Also that massive maul downfield was great to see. Hope they can keep it up going into their NZ tour.