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The Argentina XV’s Coached Felipe Contepomi and Ricardo Le Fort have confirmed the starting lineup and replacements for Saturday’s international against Uruguay. The teams will meet at the national Uruguayan rugby stadium, Estadio Charrúa in Montevideo with kick-off scheduled for 3:30pm local time.
Captaining Argentina from outside center will be the Super Rugby contracted Matías Orlando whose ten test caps to date include two caps in matches featuring Contepomi. Joining Orlando in the starting lineup will be Super Rugby players Rodrigo Baez, Ramiro Moyano and Santiago Iglesias Valdez while Santiago García Botta is among the replacements.
2015 will continue to be a busy year for Roberto Tejerizo who is to start at loosehead prop. Others near Pumas selection included are back-rower Lisandro Ahualli, scrumhalf Gonzalo Bertranou winger Axel Muller, inside center Joaquín Paz and fullback Román Miralles.
Pumita Domingo Miotti has been named ahead of Juan León Novillo at fly half while Miotti’s under 20’s teammate Ignacio Larrague will start in the second-row.
Argentina XV
1 Roberto Tejerizo, 2 Santiago Iglesias Valdez, 3 Guido Randisi, 4 Ignacio Larrague, 5 Aníbal Panceyra Garrido, 6 Rodrigo Báez, 7 Gonzalo Paulín, 8 Lisandro Ahualli, 9 Gonzalo Bertranou, 10 Domingo Miotti, 11 Axel Muller, 12 Joaquín Paz, 13 Matías Orlando, 14 Ramiro Moyano, 15 Román Miralles
16 Tomas Baravalle, 17 Santiago García Botta, 18 Cristian Bartolini, 19 Ignacio Calas, 20 Vito Scaglione, 21 Patricio Baronio, 22 Juan León Novillo, 23 Tomás Granella
Coaches: Felipe Contepomi and Ricardo Le Fort.
Uruguay
1 Juan Echeverria, 2 Germán Kessler, 3 Mario Sagario, 4 Franco Lamanna, 5 Mathias Palomeque, 6 Juan De Freitas, 7 Fernando Bascou, 8 Alejandro Nieto, 9 Agustín Ormaechea, 10 Felipe Berchesi, 11 Rodrigo Silva, 12 Andrés Vilaseca, 13 Pedro Deal, 14 Francisco Bulanti, 15 Jerónimo Etcheverry
16 Oscar Duran, 17 Arturo Avalos, 18 Alejo Corral, 19 Ignacio Dotti, 20 Gabriel Puig, 21 Agustín Alonso, 22 Guillermo Lijtenstein, 23 Joaquín Prada
Head Coach: Pablo Lemoine
