Argentina ring the changes for New Zealand

David Skippers
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Argentina have made numerous changes to their matchday squad for Saturday’s Tri Nations encounter against the All Blacks in Newcastle.

After claiming a shock victory against the three-time World Cup winners in Sydney a fortnight ago, head coach Mario Ledesma named the same starting line-up for last week’s clash against Australia in Newcastle but a new-look side will face New Zealand this week.

In the backline, Emiliano Boffelli replaces Santiago Carreras at full-back while Ramiro Moyano and Santiago Cordero come in on the wings in place of Bautista Delguy and Juan Imhoff, who tore his hamstring against the Wallabies.

Centre pairing

Juan Cruz Mallia and Jeronimo de la Fuente are preferred to Matias Orlando and Santiago Chocobares as the centre pairing while at scrum-half Felipe Ezcurra takes over from Gonzalo Bertranou.

In the forwards, there is one change in the back-row where Facundo Isa takes over from Rodrigo Bruni at number eight while Lucas Paulos replaces Matias Alemanno in the second-row.

The final changes are in the front-row where Santiago Medrano and Mayco Vivas replace Francisco Gomez Kodela and Nahuel Tetaz Chapparo as the starting props.

Tetaz Chapparo, Alemanno, Bertranou and Carreras have all been included on the replacements bench.

Argentina: 15 Emiliano Boffelli, 14 Ramiro Moyano, 13 Juan Cruz Mallia, 12 Jeronimo de la Fuente, 11 Santiago Cordero, 10 Nicolas Sanchez, 9 Felipe Ezcurra, 8 Facundo Isa, 7 Marcos Kremer, 6 Pablo Matera (c), 5 Lucas Paulos, 4 Guido Petti, 3 Santiago Medrano, 2 Julian Montoya, 1 Mayco Vivas
Replacements: 16 Santiago Socino, 17 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, 18 Lucio Sordoni, 19 Matías Alemanno, 20 Santiago Grondona, 21 Gonzalo Bertranou, 22 Santiago Carreras, 23 Lucas Mensa

Date: Saturday, November 28
Venue: McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle
Kick-off: 19:45 local (08:45 GMT)
Referee: Nic Berry (Australia)
Assistant referees: Angus Gardner (Australia), Ben O’Keeffe (New Zealand)
TMO: Paul Williams (New Zealand)

 

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