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In a big match for both teams, Os Cobras Brasil XV and Los Jaguares XV will clash on Friday in Ciudad del Este. With both teams under pressure to improve, their match-up is one that may kick-start the SLAR 2022 campaign for the winners.
Os Cobras are looking at the match as one to cherish. The starting line-up to face the 2021 SLAR champions is full-strength. It includes regulars in Brazil’s test team, Os Tupis. Some of the country’s leading performers including Matheus Cláudio, Cléber Días, Gabriel Paganini, and captain Arthur Bergo will all start in the forwards.
Backs Daniel Lima, Robert Tenorio, and Lucas Tranquez also all have plenty of experience for Os Tupis. There is also room in the team for Frenchman Simon Bienvenu at outside center and Argentines Bautista Santamarina and Mariano Filomen at fly half and tight head prop respectively.
Los Jaguares XV have moved around the pieces. The message to perform or be accountable appears loud and clear. A new-look second-row sees Manuel Bernstein, and Rodrigo Fernández Criado reverting to their natural positions from flanker. Eliseo Chiavassa will start at flanker in place of 2021 Pumitas captain Jerónimo Gómez Vara.
Change in the backs see Joaquín Pellandini starting at scrum-half. On performances thus far it ought not be considered out of the ordinary. Gerónimo Prisciantelli starts again at fly half with the team’s first fly hlf of the season, Santiago Mare, namd at inside center. This may be his position now that Juan Pablo Castro is moving to the Top 14.
Such has been the recent performances from both that the match could be descibed as the wounded Jaguares vs venomless Cobras. Neither team got it right with back-to-back losses for the Argentine SLAR entrant and the Brazilian entrant being bottom of the table and winless after four rounds.
The lackluster shoing from the Argentines certainly will give Os Cobras Brasil XV confidence like never before. The two prior games beween the sides were, in actuality only one, as the first was a WO with the Brazilians unable to take to the field. Los Jaguares XV won the second 62-12. That result and the overall presentation of the sides indicate that Los Jaguares XV enter as firm favorites.
TEAMS
COBRAS
1 Brendon Alves, 2 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 3 Mariano Filomeno, 4 Gabriel Paganini, 5 Gabriel Oliveira, 6 Cléber Días, 7 Arthur Bergo, 8 Matheus Cláudio, 9 Douglas Rauth, 10 Bautista Santamarina, 11 Daniel Lima, 12 Joel dos Santos, 13 Simon Bienvenu, 14 Robert Tenorio, 15 Lucas Tranquez
Replacements: 16 David Miller, 17 Henrique Ferreira, 18 Joel Ramírez, 19 Kauã Guimarães, 20 Devon Muller, 21 Laurent Bourda-Couhet, 22 Victor Silva, 23 Gabriel Quirino
JAGUARES XV
1 Mayco Vivas, 2 Ignacio Ruiz, 3 Lautaro Saisi, 4 Manuel Bernstein, 5 Rodrigo Fernández Criado, 6 Santiago Ruiz, 7 Eliseo Chiavassa, 8 Bautista Pedemonte, 9 Joaquín Pellandini, 10 Gerónimo Prisciantelli, 11 Martín Bogado, 12 Santiago Mare, 13 Tomás Cubilla (capt.), 14 Iñaki Delguy, 15 Ignacio Mendy
Replacements: 16 Bautista Bernasconi, 17 Santiago Pulella, 18 Martín Villar, 19 Pedro Rubiolo, 20 Jerónimo Gómez Vara, 21 Rafael Iriarte, 22 Tomás Súarez, 23 Nicanor López
Date: Friday, April 08, 2022
Venue: Estadio 03 de Febrero, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Kickoff: 6:30pm (Asunción), 7:30pm (Brasília, Buenos Aires)
Referee: Frank Méndez (Chile)
Assistant Referees: Francisco González (Uruguay); Andrés Bogado (Paraguay)
TMO: Alejandro Longres (Uruguay)
Broadcast: ESPN America Latina, ESPN Brasil
HISTORICAL RESULTS
2021-04-11 – Jaguares 62, Cobras 12 (Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo, Uruguay)
2021-03-16 – Jaguares 20- Cobras 0 (Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile)
