SRA 2024 – Cobras vs Yacare – ARN Guide

Bottom placed Cobras play hosted to third placed Yacare in Jacareí, Brazil on Saturday. The Super Rugby Americas 2024 match is the second between the teams this season. The earlier clash was a record-breaking win for Yacare. Since then, Yacare have risen to now have one foot in the play-off’s. For Os Cobras the wheels have fallen off and it is now about battling to avoid the wooden spoon.

CURRENT STANDINGS

7-7-0 (L2) Last
4-5-0 (W1) 3rd

LINEUP CHANGES

7 Rafael Teixeira replaces Maiki Lemes
8 André Arruda replaces Adrio de Melo
9 Felipe Gonçalves replaces Douglas Rauth
10 Lucas Tranquez replaces João Amaral
11 Ariel Rodrigues switches wings; replaces Colombian Alain Altahona
14 Daniel Lima replaces Ariel Rodrigues

1 Camilo Blasco replaces Ezequiel Reyes
3 Enrique Quinteros replaces Estefano Aranda
12 Ramiro Amarilla replaces Sebastián Urbieta
15 Ramiro Moyano replaces Thomas Mac Call

CAPPED INTERNATIONALS

(19) – EW Pinheiro, G Oliveira, C Días, R Teixeira, A Arruda, F Gonçalves, L Tranquez, A Rodrigues, R Tenório, L Massari Temer, D Lima, H Ferreira, B Alves, L Marinho, G Paganini, M Cláudio, L Spago, J Amaral, R Morais
(13) – C Blasco, E Quinteros, M Garcete, A Núñez, J González, A López, R Moyano (AR), L Otaño, D Cabral, E Aranda, JJ Heisecke, G Bareiro, S Urbieta

NOTABLE ABSENTEES

– Sérgio Luna
– Axel Zapata

NOTES

• Free admission with a 1kg donation of perishable food, e.g. sugar or salt.
• Yacare are comfortably in the play-off’s but just two points ahead of Selknam.
• Os Cobras cannot reach the play-off’s.
• Wholesale changes yet again for Os Cobras with six.
• 19 Brazilian test players are on the match sheet. The four others are uncapped Argentines.
• Rugby World Cup 2019 Puma Ramiro Moyano starts for Yacare at fullback.
• 13 of the Yacare 23 are capped Paraguayans. 15 in total are eligible for Paraguay.

PREDICTION

Os Cobras have nothing to lose. The team will not feature in the play-off’s. In other words, it is now all about preparations for Brazil’s July Internationals and subsequent Rugby World Cup qualifiers. Yacare need to win to stay above Selknam. Peñarol can rise, though need to beat Selknam on Friday. Hot conditions in Jacareí will not bother Yacare. ARN projects a Yacare win by 18+ points.

LINEUPS

COBRAS
1 Luciano Gabelliere, 2 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Franco Carrera, 5 Gabriel Oliveira, 6 Cleber Días (capt.) 7 Rafael Teixeira, 8 André Arruda, 9 Felipe Gonçalves, 10 Lucas Tranquez, 11 Ariel Rodrigues, 12 Robert Tenório, 13 Lorenzo Massari Temer, 14 Daniel Lima, 15 Agustín Llano

Replacements: 16 Henrique Ferreira, 17 Brendon Alves, 18 Levy Marinho, 19 Gabriel Paganini, 20 Matheus Cláudio, 21 Lucas Spago, 22 João Amaral, 23 Robson Morais

YACARE
1 Camilo Blasco, 2 Ignacio Palillo, 3 Enrique Quinteros, 4 Lucio Anconetani, 5 Mariano Garcete (capt.), 6 Juan Cruz Pérez Rachel, 7 Felipe Puertas, 8 Ariel Núñez, 9 Juan Cruz Strada, 10 Joaquín Lamas, 11 Juan González, 12 Ramiro Amarilla, 13 Tomás Vanni, 14 Arturo López, 15 Ramiro Moyano

Replacements: 16 Lucas Otaño, 17 Daniel Cabral, 18 Estéfano Aranda, 19 Juan José Heisecke, 20 Nicolás Parada Heit, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Sebastián Urbieta, 23 Joaquín Mussi

MATCH INFO

Date: Saturday, May 04
Venue: Poliesportivo Municipal Du Cambuzano, Jacareí (BR)
Kickoff: 3:30pm (Brasília); 2:30pm (PY)
Weather Forecast: Sunny 33°C; wind N (8 km/h)
Broadcasts: ESPN; Star +

OFFICIALS

Referee: Federico Solari
Assistants: Juan Manuel Martinez; Lucas Saccomanno
TMO: Victor Hugo Barboza

HISTORY

HEAD-TO-HEAD (4) – Yacare 6, Cobras 1, STREAK Yacare +3
Mar 09, 2024 – Yacare 51-07 Cobras (Asunción, PY)
Apr 23, 2023 – Yacare 34-30 Cobras (Asunción, PY)
Mar 05 2023 – Cobras 14-34 Yacare (São Paulo, BR)
May 10, 2022 – Cobras 36-25 Olímpia Lions (Montevideo, UY)
Apr 02, 2022 – Olímpia Lions 42-17 Cobras (Ciudad del Este, PY)
Apr 20, 2021 – Olímpia Lions 19-15 Cobras (Montevideo, UY)
Mar 25, 2021 – Cobras 8-44 Olímpia Lions (Valparaiso, CL)