Argentina vs France, Buenos Aires

[Intercept King JDV]

Captain Felipe Contepomi scored 31 points as Argentina gave France a record 41-13 hiding for the Six Nations champions France in a one-off rugby test at Jose Alamfitani Stadium on Saturday.

Contepomi, in brilliant fashion, scored two of the Pumas' four tries, converted three, and nailed all five penalty attempts.

The Pumas achieved their highest score and biggest margin against France, which completed a disastrous two-test tour of the southern hemisphere, including a 42-17 mauling from South Africa two weeks ago.

Final Score Argentina 41 (19) France 13 (6)

Scorers

Argentina
Tries - Felipe Contepomi 2, Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, Rafael Carballo
Penalties - Contepomi 5
Con - Contepomi 3

France
Tries - Julien Malzieu
Penalties - Jerome Porical , Morgan Parra
Con - Morgan Parra

Teams:

Argentina:

Nicolas Vergallo, Felipe Contepomi (captain), Rafael Carballo, Santiago Fernandez, Gonzalo Tiesi, Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino, Martin Rodriguez, Rodrigo Roncero, Mario Ledesma, Martin Scelzo, Manuel Carizza, Patricio Albacete, Genaro Fessia, Alejandro Campos, Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe.

Reserves: Agustin Creevy, Marcos Ayerza, Juan Figallo, Mariano Galarza, Juan Manuel Leguizamon, Agustin Figuerola, Horacio Agulla.

France:

Morgan Parra, Francois Trinh-Duc, Julien Malzieu, Florian Fritz, Lionel Mazars, Vincent Clerc, Jerome Porical, Fabien Barcella, Dimitri Szarzewski, Nicolas Mas: Pascal Pape, Lionel Nallet, Thierry Dusautoir (captain), Louis Picamoles, Julien Bonaire:

Reserves: Guilhem Guirado, Jean Baptiste Poux, Julien Pierre, Gregory Lamboley, Dimitri Yachvili, David Skrela, Aurelien Rougerie.

Source

Watched a bit of this game earlier and from what I saw Argentina was on fire!Contepomi was superb, scored two great tries."Super Mario" Ledesma also had a cracker!

Much improve effort from Argentina then in the 2 previous games against Scotland that is for sure!

 

[SelimNiai]

And that's a very strong French side too. Well done to Argentina and to the legend that is Contepomi.

 

[MichaelBoard]

Superb by Argentina, didn't expect that

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Superb by Argentina, didn't expect that

Ditto, especially on the back of two defeats to Scotland (though maybe that spurned them on?)

 

[Phlegm & Poise]

What an awful tour for the French! Thoroughly beasted by the Boks, then receiving the same sort of rogering by the Argentinians. Very disappointing after a decent year.

I'm rather looking forward to the Argentinians joining up with the Tri-Nations sides in the future. Hopefully it'll give them some structure to develop consistency in selection which will lead to results. Am I right in thinking they've not yet scalped the ABs/Boks? Could be a grim year or two for them at first, thankfully the daffodils lining up in the front row for Australia should provide some easy meat for them to get their teeth into.

 

[dangandan]

what happened to juan martin hernandez?

 

[stiritup]

what happened to juan martin hernandez?

He is recovering from an injury

 

[Seaton]

I feel this puts Scotlands magnificent victories into light B)

 

[ikvat]

This tour is a total disillusion, especially after a grand slam season. :huh:
French players are perhaps too tired, but the constat is that we can't compete against major nations when two or tree key players are missing.

Felipe Contepomi is a fantastic player.

 

[Mr.cyclopede]

This tour is a total disillusion, especially after a grand slam season. :huh:
French players are perhaps too tired, but the constat is that we can't compete against major nations when two or tree key players are missing.

Felipe Contepomi is a fantastic player.

Completely true
This tour showed that whatever the scrum/fly halves are (Parra/Trinh-Duc, Yachvili/Skrela or Beauxis) the team is fragile without Jauzion and bastareaud centers, and also players like Harinordoquy and Chabal.

 

[SavageLez]

I feel this puts Scotlands magnificent victories into light B)

I agree, in a post earlier last week I stated as much. Scotland did not get the recognition due for their 2 x great performances againt the Pumas! Scotland are playing good rugby, they are just missing 1 or 2 game breakers to make them really successful. We must not forget that they also recently beat Aus 9-8 in their last outing against eachother.

 

[veux]

Conclusively proving that Scotland should have won the 6nations...

 

[Mr.cyclopede]

Well, didn't see theses two matches and not to take away any credit to Scotland, the Pumas were not extraordinary exept in hunger and 2 or 3 individualities like Contepomi*. France were awfull, desastrous.
TOP 14 calendar doesn't excuse everything, even if the numerous Pumas playing also there were not as booked as Les bleus all along the year (no 6N, and Hcup orTOP14 playoffs for many of them). Question is how can we so easily let down when taked down by the score (3rd time taking 40 pts in the late 15 months), and loose all kind of motivations.

*Talking about Contepomi, I didn't see him this season with Toulon running in the defense so easily...

 

[Prestwick]

You have to say that this has been a really successful series for Argentina. Theres been a lot of competitive rugby between strong teams in front of packed audiences. One more than the usual two games for Argentina also means moar dolla dolla in the ARU's bank accounts.

If they get three tests a summer + 4N games that means they'll be playing five or six times in Argentina against strong sides which is unprecedented in Argentinian rugby history post 1996!!!

 

[Seaton]

I agree, in a post earlier last week I stated as much. Scotland did not get the recognition due for their 2 x great performances againt the Pumas! Scotland are playing good rugby, they are just missing 1 or 2 game breakers to make them really successful. We must not forget that they also recently beat Aus 9-8 in their last outing against eachother.

Aye, but you said the Scots should be ranked higher than 7th, which they shouldn't, the Scots might have beaten some decent teams, but I would never say "Scotland has a better team than Ireland, Wales, N Zealand, S Africa, Australia, France, England"
That would be ignorant and silly