Argentina (3) 13 / Scotland (6) 12 (Final Score)
Argentina and Scotland did battle in Wellington at 09:30 SA Time (20:30 NZ Time).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 1, SHD & CSN on TV in SA.
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This was not a pretty, airy-fairie match, but hard and unrelenting rugby.
The Argentinians came back from being 12 / 6 down to score a marvelous try and a cool conversion, and then hanging on with everything they had to keep brave Scotland away.
Scorers:
Argentina:
- Penalties – Felipe Contepomi (2)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Lucas Gonzales Amorosino (1)
- Conversions – Felipe Contepomi (1)
Scotland:
- Penalties – Chris Paterson (1), Ruaridh Jackson (1)
- Drop Goals – Ruaridh Jackson (1), Dan Parks (1)
- Tries – 0
- Conversions – 0
Teams:
Argentina: 15 Martin Rodriguez, 14 Gonzalo Camacho, 13 Marcelo Bosch, 12 Felipe Contepomi (captain), 11 Horacio Agulla, 10 Santiago Fernandez, 9 Nicolas Vergallo, 8 Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, 7 Juan Manuel Leguizamon, 6 Julio Farias Cabello, 5 Patricio Albacete, 4 Manuel Carizza, 3 Juan Figallo, 2 Mario Ledesma, 1 Rodrigo Roncero.
Replacements: 16 Agustín Creevy, 17 Martin Scelzo, 18 Mariano Galarza, 19 Genaro Fessia, 20 Alfredo Lalanne, 21 Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino, 22 Juan Jose Imhoff.
Scotland: 15 Chris Paterson, 14 Max Evans, 13 Nick De Luca, 12 Graeme Morrison, 11 Sean Lamont, 10 Ruaridh Jackson, 9 Rory Lawson (captain), 8 Kelly Brown, 7 John Barclay, 6 Alasdair Strokosch, 5 Jim Hamilton, 4 Richie Gray, 3 Geoff Cross, 2 Ross Ford, 1 Allan Jacobsen.
Replacements: 16 Dougie Hall, 17 Alasdair Dickinson, 18 Nathan Hines, 19 Richie Vernon, 20 Mike Blair, 21 Dan Parks, 22 Simon Danielli.
Date: Sunday 25 September
Venue: Wellington Regional Stadium, Wellington
Kick-off: 09:30 SA Time (19:30 NZ Time)
Expected weather: Cloudy and raining all day. Max 12°C, Min 6°C.
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
Assistant referees: Nigel Owens (Wales), Chris Pollock (New Zealand)
TMO: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)
Short
Penalty straight in front for Argies again
First blood to the Argies
Argentina 3 / 0
Argies are first on the board! Go Pumas! Savage the girly boys in skirts.
How utter ridiculous is this! Another example of how committees can come up with kak rules!
Scrum penalty to the Argies, on halfway
Rodriguez misses
Argentina looking strong in the tackle, stealing a lot of ball.
Crowd is really involved in this game. Lovely to hear.
26@ Puma:
Good morning Puma, good to have you on our side, the other two are not playing along 😉
@ Bullscot:
We are playing along, just against you
Scotland penalty, they don’t manage to kick out
Nice play on the up and under de Luca!
Evenly matched this game so far.
@ The_Young_Turk:29 – hehehe. Not this time. Scotland my favourite country outside of South Africa.
Scotland look more likely to score a try.
Carizza came down like a sack of spuds
@ Bullscot:40 – Morning Bullscot. Yip you and I will support the Scots today buddy. 🙂
41@ The_Young_Turk:
You’ll be happy at the moment then
Penalty to the kilt-weilding fiends!
@ Bullscot:
Actually I think the Scots are looking a bit stronger at the moment.
3 / 3
Oh yes!
Even stevens now!
Penalty Scots again
Scots are looking stronger and stronger…
What a kick Jackson!
Scotland 6 / 3
Morning all, Bredenet finally up and running, gotta love the country, only technician in the area had to sleep off hang-over before he could fix the tower! My very Scottish wife all over the telly at the moment. Had ‘Oh Flower of Scotland’ up to my ears this morning. Go Scotland
Scots deservedly in the lead…
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