Paraguay Confirm Lineup for RWC Qualifier vs Colombia

Paraguay has confirmed its lineup for today’s Rugby World Cup qualifier against Colombia. Playing at home, Paraguay are in search of a win to advance to the 2017 South American Championship. The price for the winner today is a place in the tournament while the Japan 2019 dream ends for the loser.

Paraguay enters the match as favorites. In the Americas Rankings the teams are 7th and 8th. Paraguay’s advantage is extremely small, though with just a 0.11 lead the teams are very much neck-and-neck according to rankings.

PARAGUAY
1 Emilio Gorostiaga, 2 Juan Gavigan, 3 Alvaro Rojas, 4 Alejandro Montiel, 5 Andres Nasser, 6 Marcos Riquelme, 7 Maartín Ortiz, 8 Maximo Gomez, 9 Gonzalo Bareiro, 10 Gerard Cuttier, 11 Hector Gayoso, 12 Carlos Bareiro, 13 Sebastian Urbieta, 14 Diego Argaña, 15 Rodrigo Da Rosa

Replacements: 16 Martín Sitjar, 17 Juan Gomez, 18 Joaquín Vera, 19 Carlos Plate, 20 Horacio Ocampos, 21 Gastón Navas, 22 Pablo Espinola, 23 Sergio Alvarenga

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