Peñarol and Dogos Put on Slobberknocker in SRA 2025 Season Opener

The Super Rugby 2025 season opener was a slobberknocker. Played in Montevideo, Uruguay on Friday evening, Peñarol and Los Dogos put on a highly competitive contest which was decided in the final play. The match was a highly encouraging start to SRA 2025.

 

MATCH NOTES

• The result says the defending champions starting SRA 2025 with a loss.
• Peñarol outscored Los Dogos by five tries to four.
• The scores were 14-14 after 49 minutes. The lead then changed hands five times until the final whistle.
• Replacement hooker Joaquín Myszka scored from a lineout to maul for victory in the final play.
• Scrum-half Agustín Moyano continue to look like a Puma in Waiting; he scored two tries for Los Dogos.
• Baltazar Amaya was replaced in the 2nd minute by Manuel Cardoso Pinto.
• Peñarol’s goal-kickers accuracy was only 40%; two of Santiago Álvarez’s kicks were very wide of target.
• Peñarol’s scrum avoided penalties but was shoved backwards throughout the match.
• The Uruguayans claimed the bonus point win to sit on five points while Los Dogos claimed two due to scoring four tries, one less than Peñarol, and due to losing by a narrow margin.

SCORING

PENAROL (29)
Try – B Farise (40′); JM Rodríguez (48′); M Diana (59′); I Facciolo (65′); J Myszka (80′)
Con – S Álvarez 2/4 (40′, 49′); F Etcheverry 0/1

DOGOS (28)
Try – A Moyano 2 (23′, 76′); B Wenger (38′); A Bildosola (61′)
Con – J Hernández 4/4 (15′, 39′, 62′, 76′)
YC – JC Caballero (30′)

LINEUPS

PENAROL
1 Mateo Sanguinetti, 2 Guillermo Pujadas, 3 Bautista Vidal, 4 Juan Manuel Rodriguez, 5 Felipe Aliaga, 6 Santiago Civetta, 7 Lucas Bianchi, 8 Manuel Diana (capt.),9 Santiago Álvarez, 10 Felipe Etcheverry, 11 Ignacio Facciolo, 12 Bautista Farise, 13 Felipe Arcos Perez, 14 Bautista Basso, 15 Baltazar Amaya

Replacements: 16 Joaquin Myszka, 17 Mateo Perillo, 18 Ignacio Torres, 19 Franco Marini Linares, 20 Carlos Deus, 21 Tomas Di Biase, 22 Alfonso Perillo Albarracin, 23 Manuel Cardoso Pinto

DOGOS
1 Boris Wenger, 2 Leonel Oviedo, 3 Pedro Delgado, 4 Lautaro Simes, 5 Federico Albrisi, 6 Aitor Bildosola, 7 Valentin Cabral (capt.), 8 Juan Cruz Caballero, 9 Agustin Moyano, 10 Julián Hernández, 11 Lautaro Cipriani, 12 Felipe Mallia, 13 Mateo Soler, 14 Ernesto Giudice, 15 Bautista Lescano

Replacements: 16 Conrado Iglesias, 17 Nicolás Revol, 18 Octavio Ignacio Filippa, 19 Lorenzo Colidio, 20 Ignacio Gandini, 21 Juan Lovell, 22 Juan Bautista Baronio, 23 Faustino Sanchez Valarolo

 

MATCH HIGHLIGHTS

OFFICIALS

Referee: Nehuén Jauri Rivero (AR)
Assistants: Simón Larrubia (AR); Armen Abisaab (UY)
TMO: Alejandro Longres (UY)

 

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