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Super Rugby Americas leaders Pampas play host to Yacare on Friday. The match sees two of the form teams of the competition batting it out in Buenos Aires. Los Pampas are running red-hot while Yacare are coming off a break following an upset road defeat against the Raptors in Colorado.
| CURRENT STANDINGS |
5-1-0 (W3) (1st)
6-3-3 (L1) (3rd)
| LINEUP CHANGES |
4 Eliseo Fourcade replaces Rodrigo Fernández Criado
10 Manuel Nogués replaces Joaquín de la Vega Mendía
11 Jerónimo Ulloa replaces Bernabé López Fleming
12 Justo Piccardo replaces Juan Pablo Castro
3 Rolando Portillo replaces Enrique Quinteros
4 Lucio Anconetani replaces Ignacio Martínez
| CAPPED INTERNATIONALS |
(0)
(12) – R Portillo, E Quinteros, D Cabral, M Garcete, JJ Heisecke, A Núñez, G Barreiro, J González, S Urbieta, G Parodi, A López, R Moyano (AR)
| NOTABLE ABSENTEES |
– S Montagner, E Morales, M Eliçagaray
– Tomás MacCall (AR)
| NOTES |
- Los Pampas have gone for four changes while Yacare have two.
- Manuel Nogués will wear the 10 shirt for the first time. He previously played as a replacement fly half but is a specialist scrum-half.
- Joaquín Lamas (Yacare) is the joint leading SRA point scorer with 59 points.
- Santiago Pernas (Pampas) is the leading SRA try scorer with 7 tries.
- Scrum-half Juan Cruz Strada leads the league for turn overs with 7 turn overs.
- Twelve test players will take to the field for Yacare. Eleven of the twelve are capped by Paraguay.
- The match returns to San Isidro after earlier season matches were relocated to Club Newman.
| PREDICTION |
Los Pampas are the league leaders. With 5 wins from 6 matches, the Buenos Aires side is well on target for a play in the play-off’s. Attention is now about securing a home Semi Final. So good have the Pampas been that even a heavy loss will not see Yacare overtaking them on Friday. Fine weather and a late kick-off time will facilitate free-flowing rugby. Los Pampas are favorites to win by a margin of +14 and secure a bonus point.
| LINEUPS |
PAMPAS
1 Matías Medrano, 2 Ramiro Gurovich, 3 Estanislao Carullo, 4 Eliseo Fourcade, 5 Marcelo Toledo, 6 Manuel Bernstein (capt.), 7 Nicolás D’Amorim, 8 Joaquín Moro, 9 Ignacio Inchauspe, 10 Manuel Nogués, 11 Jerónimo Ulloa, 12 Justo Piccardo, 13 Bruno Heit, 14 Santiago Pernas 15 Benjamín Elizalde
Replacements: 16 Ignacio Bottazzini, 17 Javier Corvalán, 18 Javier Coronel, 19 Rodrigo Fernández Criado, 20 Tomás Bernasconi, 21 Simón Benítez Cruz, 22 Joaquín de la Vega Mendía, 23 Juan Pablo Castro
YACARE
1 Ezequiel Reyes, 2 Axel Zapata, 3 Rolando Portillo, 4 Lucio Anconetani, 5 Mariano Garcete (capt.), 6 Juan Pérez Rachel, 7 Felipe Puertas, 8 Nicolás Parada Heit, 9 Juan Cruz Strada, 10 Joaquín Lamas, 11 Juan González, 12 Sebastián Urbieta, 13 Ramiro Amarilla, 14 Arturo López, 15 Ramiro Moyano
Replacements: 16 Ignacio Palillo, 17 Daniel Cabral, 18 Enrique Quinteros, 19 Juan José Heisecke, 20 Ariel Núñez, 21 Gonzalo Barreiro, 22 Tomás Vanni, 23 Gianfranco Parodi
| MATCH INFO |
Date: Friday April 12
Venue: CASI, Buenos Aires (AR)
Kickoff: 9:20pm (AR); 9:20pm (PY)
Weather Forecast: Partly Cloudy, 20°C; Wind E (22 km/h)
Broadcasts: ESPN; Star +
| OFFICIALS |
Referee: Gonzalo De Achaval (AR)
Assistants: Juan Maio (AR); Damián Schneider (BR)
TMO: Marcela Pilara (AR)
| HISTORY |
HEAD-TO-HEAD (9) – Pampas 9, Yacare 0, STREAK Pampas +9
Feb 17, 2024 – Yacare 32-48 Pampas (Asunción, PY)
May 26, 2003 – Pampas 25-24 Yacare (Buenos Aires, AR)
Mar 24, 2023 – Yacare 5-22 Pampas (Asunción, PY)
Apr 29, 2002 – Jaguares XV 41-21 Olímpia Lions (Montevideo, UY)
Mar 19, 2022 – Jaguares XV 49-22 Olímpia Lions (Valparaíso, CL)
May 08, 2021 – Olímpia Lions 17-29 Jaguares XV (Montevideo, UY)
Apr 26, 2021 – Olímpia Lions 26-40 Jaguares XV (Montevideo, UY)
Mar 30, 2021 – Jaguares XV 71-13 Olímpia Lions (Santiago, CL)
Mar 06, 2020 – Ceibos 48-08 Olímpia Lions (Córdoba, AR)
