Pumitas Change 10 for South Africa

Los Pumitas have changed 10 for South Africa. The teams meet in the third and final round of pool play in Georgia on Thursday. The u20 battle will kick-off at 8:30am Argentine time.

Pumitas Head Coach has named an entirely new front-row and second-row and has also gone for alterations in the back-line.

Rodrigo Martínez, Leonel Oviedo and Jeremías Tarter have been named to start in place of Santiago Pulella, Jose Luis González and Alejandro Luna respectively in the front-row. Nahuel Milán and Lucas Paulos combine in the second-row with Franco Molina dropping to the bench and Marcos Kremer reverting to flanker.

Kremer is to join Bautista Stávile and Nicolás Walker in the back-row. This sees both Agustín Medrano and Santiago Ruiz missing out.

In the backs Matías Sauze continues to hold down the scrum-half starting position. He will be partnered by Tomás Albornoz at fly half. Albornoz comes in for Juan Daireaux who will feature as a replacement.

Back to fitness is fullback Bautista Delguy. But he will play against South Africa on the left wing. This enables Juan Pablo Castro to be the starting fullback. Delguy started against Georgia in the position while Santiago Carreras did so against France. Delguy and Castro are to be joined by Tomás Malanos in the starting back-three. Maleness will captain the side.

PUMITAS
1 Rodrigo Martínez, 2 Leonel Oviedo, 3 Jeremías Tarter, 4 Nahuel Milan, 5 Lucas Paulos, 6 Bautista Stávile, 7 Marcos Kremer, 8 Nicolás Walker, 9 Matías Sauze, 10 Tomás Albornoz, 11 Bautista Delguy, 12 Félix Luna, 13 Facundo Ferrario, 14 Tomás Malanos (Capt.), 15 Juan Pablo Castro

Replacements: 16 José Luis González, 17 Santiago Pulella, 18 Alejandro Luna, 19 Franco Molina, 20 Juan Molina, 21 Gonzalo García, 22 Juan Daireaux, 23 Teo Castiglioni