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Los Jaguares have made three changes for the Stormers. The Argentine Super Rugby franchise face the Stormers in Cape Town on Saturday.
Head Coach Raúl Pérez has named Nicolás Sánchez, Santiago García Botta and Ramiro Moyano as his three changes. Sánchez missed the opening round match against the Southern Kings. He was given the match off in order to fully return to fitness. His replacements, Joaquín Díaz Bonilla was injured in the first half in game one.
García Botta will start at Loose Head prop. He replaces Lucas Noguera Paz who will feature from the bench this weekend. The remaining seven starting forwards are equal to that from against the Southern Kings.
The third change comes in the back-line. Ramiro Moyano will start the match on the right wing. This sees a positional change for Matías Orlando who moves to outside center. Matías Moroni drops to the bench as a result.
Set to make his Super Rugby debut is former Bayonne forward Benjamín Macome. The Tucumán No 8 replaces Rodrigo Báez as the specialist back-row replacements.
LOS JAGUARES
1 Santiago García Botta, 2 Agustín Creevy (Capt.), 3 Felipe Arregui, 4 Guido Petti, 5 Matías Alemanno, 6 Pablo Matera, 7 Tomás Lezana, 8 Leonardo Senatore, 9 Gonzalo Bertranou, 10 Nicolás Sánchez, 11 Santiago Cordero, 12 Jerónimo de la Fuente, 13 Matías Orlando, 14 Ramiro Moyano, 15 Joaquín Tuculet
Replacements: 16 Julián Montoya, 17 Lucas Noguera Paz, 18 Cristian Bartoloni, 19 Marcos Kremer, 20 Benjamín Macome, 21 Felipe Ezcurra, 22 Santiago González Iglesias, 23 Matías Moroni
