Brazil no match for Uruguay at u20 Trophy

The South American champions proved their class once again on Wednesday as Uruguay routed hosts Brazil by a score of 52-10. It brought the curtains down on the pool stage and sets up a 3rd-place play-off for the Teritos against Tonga, and relegates Os Curumins to the 7th-place match against Hong Kong.

Carlos Gruss opening the scoring, the hooker coming up with the ball on a successful lineout drive just a few minutes into the match. Lucas Spago somehow pulled a routine penalty attempt to the right of the posts to leave three points begging for Brazil.

Instead Uruguay would push their lead out to 24-0 by halftime. Next to cross was Manuel Barreiro. The burly center bashed his way over on a hard line after another driving maul. Just a couple minutes later Juan Pablo Costabile was first to touch down a chip kick over the line from Federico Slinger. A pushover scrum gave Santiago Nicolich the easiest of tries to wrap up the first half.

Os Curumins finally got on the board early in the second as Spago connected on a penalty goal. Slinger went one better, however, slicing through the line to score a try for the Teritos. To their credit Brazil did not give up and captain-for-the-day Naassom Porto drove over from close range for a well-earned try.

Uruguay would do the remainder of the scoring. Baltazar Amaya scored a fine solo try as he took a short ball from the ruck on halfway and sped straight up the field, stepping the final defender. A penalty try for a dangerous tackle by Alisson Kalkmann put another seven on the board, and Amaya grabbed his double as Felipe Lombardo broke through and finished the textbook two-on-one.

 

SCORING

URUGUAY 52
Tries – C. Gruss (7′), M. Barreiro (21′), J. Costabile (24′), S. Nicolich (35′), F. Slinger (45′), B. Amaya 2 (57′, 69′), Penalty try (59′)
Cons – S. del Cerro 5/7 (8′, 25′, 46′, 58′, 70′)

BRAZIL 10
Tries – N. Porto (52′)
Cons – L. Spago 1/1 (53′)
Pens – L. Spago 1/2 (43′)
Yellow cards – A. Kalkmann (59′)

 

TEAMS

URUGUAY u20
1 Santiago Bonasso, 2 Carlos Gruss, 3 Ignacio Péculo, 4 Juanjuan Garese (capt.), 5 Carlos Deus, 6 Maxime Sonneveld, 7 Tomás Pollio, 8 Santiago Nicolich, 9 Ignacio Rodríguez, 10 Federico Slinger, 11 Baltazar Amaya, 12 Manuel Barreiro, 13 Felipe Arcos Pérez, 14 Juan Pablo Costabile, 15 Santiago del Cerro

Replacements: 16 Juan Martín Rippe, 17 Ezequiel Ramos, 18 Faustino Etchegorry, 19 Reinaldo Piussi, 20 Felipe Aliaga, 21 Felipe Lombardo, 22 José Iruleguy, 23 Matías D’Avanzo, 24 Alfonso Cat

BRAZIL u20
1 Naassom Porto (capt.), 2 Felipe Quevedo, 3 Marcos de Melo, 4 Filippo Bugno, 5 Gabriel Oliviera, 6 Weslley Barbosa, 7 Henrique Da Silva, 8 João Furst, 9 Carlos Proença, 10 Lucas Spago, 11 Gerónimo Olivares, 12 Alisson Kalkmann, 13 Guylherme Rangel, 14 Murillo Bonesso, 15 Carlos Moura

Replacements: 16 Leonardo Da Silva, 17 Matheus Diniz, 18 Henrique Ribeiro, 19 Rafael Dos Santos, 20 Matheus de Oliviera, 21 Adrio de Melo, 22 Joel Santos, 23 Felipe Cunha, 24 Vicent Quirino, 25 Gabriel Quirino, 26 Luiz Octávio Nunes

 

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Luke Rogan (USAR)
Assistants: Frank Méndez (FERUCHI) & Matías Esteban (URU)