Records set as Argentina complete historic series win over Wales

Argentina were 33-11 winners over Wales today. The result means Los Pumas completed an historic away series win over Wales. The teams competed to a 20-20 draw seven days ago. When added to Argentina’s win over Romania, July 2021 officially marks Argentina’s first unbeaten tour since 1992. Today’s win was also by a record margin of 22 points.

Argentina had a promising start; a Rodrigo Bruni break led to a penalty opportunity. Nicolás Sánchez missed. It continued his goal-kicking woes this month. Sánchez kicked 4/6 last week against Wales and 0/2 the prior week against Romania.

Wales’ Jarrod Evans also missed his first kick at goal; however, it was from a try. Owen Lane did well to get past Matías Moroni to dive in to score in the corner. Sánchez and Moroni got revenge three minutes later; the Leicester man scored and the Stade Français man converted for Los Pumas. The try came following waves of drives with Tomás Cubelli orchestrating play.

Sánchez extended Argentina’s lead with a penalty. Los Pumas then scored their second try with Cubelli darting over from close range. Evans discounted three points with a 31st minute penalty. It ended the first half scoring with Argentina in a commanding 17-8 lead.

Evans put Wales closer in the 50th minute. He landed a straight-forward penalty following an infringement from loose head Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro. Sánchez responded seven minutes later. A further Sánchez penalty put Los Pumas 12 points ahead with 15 minutes remaining.

A late Sánchez strike put the result beyond doubt; yet, Los Pumas were not done yet. Former captain Pablo Matera charged over for a try. It completed a 33-11 victory, a series win and Argentina’s biggest win over Wales.

 

SCORING

WALES 11
Tries – O. Lane (8′)
Cons – J. Evans 0/1
Pens – J. Evans 2/3 (32′, 51′)
YC – H. Amos (60′)

ARGENTINA 33
Tries – M. Moroni (11′), T. Cubelli (28′), P. Matera (79′)
Cons – N. Sánchez 3/3 (12′, 29′, 79′)
Pens – N. Sánchez 4/6 (26, 57′, 65′, 76′)
DG – N. Sánchez 0/1

 

TEAMS

WALES
1 Gareth Thomas (17 Rhodri Jones 57′), 2 Elliot Dee (16 Sam Parry 49′), 3 Leon Brown (18 Dillon Lewis 49′), 4 Ben Carter (19 Matthew Screech 49′), 5 Will Rowlands, 6 Joshua Turnbull, 7 James Botham (20 Taine Basham 62′), 8 Ross Moriarty, 9 Tomos Williams (21 Kieran Hardy 62′), 10 Jarrod Evans (22 Callum Sheedy 62′), 11 Tom Rogers (23 Willis Halaholo 51′), 12 Jonathan Davies (capt.), 13 Nick Tompkins, 14 Owen Lane, 15 Hallam Amos

ARGENTINA
1 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro (17 Facundo Gigena 54′), 2 Julián Montoya (capt.) (16 Facundo Bosch 70′), 3 Francisco Gómez Kodela (18 Santiago Medrano 48′), 4 Guido Petti, 5 Marcos Kremer (20 Matías Alemanno 54′), 6 Pablo Matera, 7 Facundo Isa (19 Tomás Lavanini 48′), 8 Rodrigo Bruni, 9 Tomás Cubelli (21 Felipe Ezcurra 69′), 10 Nicolás Sánchez, 11 Matías Moroni, 12 Jerónimo de la Fuente, 13 Santiago Chocobares, 14 Bautista Delguy (23 Juan Imhoff 51′), 15 Santiago Carreras (22 Domingo Miotti 72′)

 

MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Luke Pearce (England)
Assistants: Matthew Carley (England) & Karl Dickson (England)
TMO: Tom Foley (England)