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Argentina’s impressive performance against the Baby Blacks this past weekend was not replicated this afternoon as Los Pumitas suffered a first ever loss against Scotland in the World Rugby Under 20s Championship. Coming off defeats by margins of two and three points the South Americans were humbled by a solid showing from the North-West Europeans whose 29-6 win sees Argentina finish bottom of Group C.
Coached by Nicolás Fernández Lobbe Los Pumitas were badly outplayed by a Scottish team that capitalized on Argentine errors and perfomed notable better in the set-piece. Argentina’s error-ridden performance saw potential tries go begging and no tries scored by the South Americans for the first time in the tournament.
The heavy defeat came after a trless first half in which Scotland led 9-6 at the interval following a successful penalty attempt to close the half. Minutes before the kick Argentina had come close to scoring a contender for try of the tournament only for a handling error preventing a near length of the field try.
The correspónding fuixture twelve months ago saw Argentina defeating Scotland 41-21 while in 2013 Los Pumitas won 44-13. New Zealand finished top of the group after completing a 25-3 win over Ireland who took second spot by virtue of collecting wins against both Argentina and Scotland.
Scorers
For Scotland:
Tries: Nairn, Galloway, Wynne
Cons: Kinghorn
Pens: Kinghorn (4)
For Argentina:
Pens: Miotti (2)
Argentina
1 Javier Díaz, 2 Ignacio Calles, 3 Cristian Bartoloni, 4 Ignacio Calas, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 José Deheza, 7 Ernesto Olmedo, 8 Santiago Portillo, 9 Patricio Baronio, 10 Domingo Miotti, 11 Juan Cruz Mallía, 12 Bautista Ezcurra, 13 Emiliano Boffelli, 14 Tomás Granella, 15 Matías Ferro.
Scotland
1 Murray McCallum, 2 Sam James, 3 Zander Fagerson, 4 Scott Cummings, 5 Neil Irvine-Hess, 6 Ally Miller, 7 Lewis Wynne, 8 Magnus Bradbury, 9 Ben Vellacot, 10 Rory Hutchinson, 11 Richard Galloway, 12 Patrick Kelly, 13 Alec Coombes, 14 Robbie Nairn, 15 Blair Kinghorn.
