Pumitas defeat combative Teritos

Argentina were 35-12 winners this morning over Uruguay. The South American battle was a final round clash in the u20 International Series in Stellenbosch, South Africa. It followed the earlier match in which South Africa were 28-0 winners over Georgia.

Los Pumitas won the battle of the Rio de la Plata 35-12. It involved a comeback after Uruguay had scored the opening points and the first try. It also required persistence; the wet conditions made play difficult.

This was evident in the opening try. Uruguay’s try was scored by Santiago Álvarez. The scrum-half punished a poor Argentine clearance and the wet conditions made the ball sit up well for the Teritos.

9️⃣ Santiago Álvarez 🇺🇾 #VamosTeritos pic.twitter.com/M9VLzcrLlx

— Los Teritos (@Teritos_URU) June 28, 2021

Argentina’s response came from their captain. Olímpia Lions flanker Jerónimo Gómez Vara scored the first of two opening half tries for the Argentines. The second came after Uruguayan captain Carlos Deus was yellow carded. Argentina were awarded a penalty try.

The second half saw Argentina on top. With three tries compared to one to Uruguay, Los Pumitas converted a 14-5 half-time lead into a 35-12 victory.

SCORING

ARGENTINA 35
Try – Gómez Vara (23′), Penalty Try (38′), Bildosola (42′), Albanese (48′), Grenon (74′)
Con – Waisberg 4/4 (24′, 43′, 49′, 75′), No Kick (38′)

URUGUAY 12
Try – S Alvarez (14′), I Alvarez (55′)
Con – Gómez Platero 1/2 (56′)
YC – Deus (37′)

TEAMS

ARGENTINA
1 Mateo Núñez Miserez, 2 Martín Vaca, 3 Martín Villar, 4 Pedro Rubiolo, 5 Ramón Duggan, 6 Aitor Bildosola, 7 Jerónimo Gómez Vara (capt.) 8 Joaquín Moro, 9 Mateo Albanese, 10 Ramiro Waisberg, 11 Iñaki Delguy, 12 Juan Cruz Corso Rodríguez, 13 Justo Piccardo, 14 Ramón Fuentes, 15 Francisco Pisani Caride

Replacements: 16 Ignacio Ruiz, 17 Nicolás Toth, 18 Joaquín Blangetti, 19 Bautista Toledo, 20 Bautista Grenon, 21 Facundo Villalba, 22 Mateo Graziano, 23 Francisco Diez

URUGUAY
1 Ignacio Rua, 2 Gerónimo Gutierrez, 3 Matteo Bertini, 4 Juan Pirone, 5 Tomás Etcheverry, 6 Juan Martín David, 7 Lucas Bianchi, 8 Carlos Deus (capt.), 9 Santiago Álvarez, 10 Sebastián Gómez Platero, 11 Ignacio Facciolo, 12 Juan Manuel Alonso, 13 Augustio Paullier, 14 Bautista Basso, 15 Ignacio Álvarez

Replacements: 16 Juan Capua, 17 Gabriel Evans, 18 Juan Bautista Zerbino, 19 Andrés Villar, 20 Diego Sere, 21 Alfonso Silva, Juan Manuel Algorta, 22 Juan Manuel Tafernaberry, 23 Juanjuan Garese