Yacare Narrowly Get the Job Done at home against Tarucas

With experience, home advantage and heat on their side, Yacare downed Super Rugby Americas newcomers, Los Tarucas 30-27 on Saturday. Yacare played smarter while Los Tarucas lacked discipline at crucial moments both on attack and defense. Nonetheless, the match went down to the wire and was only decided on the final whistle.

• The match officially opened professional rugby competition between teams from Paraguay and Tucumán province.
• The match appeared over very early as Yacare built a 24-3 lead long before the half hour mark.
• Los Tarucas early struggles were not due to ability; rather, lack of composure as the experienced opponents were mentally focused.
• Argentines Axel Zapata, Joaquín Lamas and Santiago Ruiz touched down in the try zone for Yacare. They were the three first tries of the contest and Yacare did not score again.
• Joaquín Lamas converted all three tries and slotted three penalties, two of them accounted for all of Yacare’s second-half points.
• Los Tarucas’ comeback began while playing with 14-men. Juan Manual Vivas scored his first of two tries for a 24-10 halftime deficit to Los Tucumanos.
• Vivas scored a second try in the second-half as the lineout to maul move proved successful. He was yellow carded for a high tackle and replaced by Diego Fortuny who scored the final try. It was also from a lineout to maul move.
• Replacements added injection for Los Tarucas early in the second-half. Nicolás Macome was particularly impressive.
• Yacare take away 4 competition points while Los Tarucas claimed bonus point in defeat. This means Yacare rise to 3rd position behind Selknam and Peñarol.

YACARE (30)
Try – A Zapata (9′); J Lamas (17′), S Ruiz (22′)
Con – J Lamas 3 (10′, 18′, 22′)
Pen  – J Lamas 3 (27′, 50′, 66′)
YC – V Di Capua (72′); M Garcete (75′)

TARUCAS (27)
Try – JM Vivas 2 (36′, 56′); D Fortuny (78′)
Con – I Cerrutti 3 (37′, 57′, 79′)
Pen  – I Cerrutti 2 (7′, 60′)
YC – F Cardozo (27′); JM Vivas (59′)

YACARE
1 Mariano Muntaner, 2 Axel Zapata, 3 Rolando Portillo, 4 Mariano Garcete (capt.), 5 Lucas Sommer, 6 Ariel Nuñez, 7 Felipe Puertas, 8 Santiago Ruíz, 9 Juan Cruz Strada, 10 Joaquín Lamas, 11 Juan González, 12 Sebastián Urbieta, 13 Ramiro Amarilla, 14 Julián Quetglas, 15 Valentido di Capua

Replacements: 16 Jordi Chávez, 17 Daniel Cabral, 18 Enzo Egea, 19 Juan José Heisecke, 20 Ramiro Parada, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Facundo Paiva, 23 Arturo López

1 Julián Martín, 2 Juan Manuel Vivas, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Mariano Perondi, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Facundo García Hamilton, 8 Santiago Aguilar (capt.), 9 Simón Benítez Cruz, 10 Ignacio Cerrutti, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Tomás Medina, 13 Bautista Estofan, 14 Baltazar García, 15 Stefano Ferro

Replacements: 16 Diego Fortuny, 17 Benjamín Garrido, 18 Agustín Iglesias, 19 Álvaro García Iandolino, 20 Agustín Sarelli, 21 Estanislao Pregot, 22 Nicolás Macome, 23 José Gianotti

Referee: Pablo Deluca (AR)
Assistants: Frank Méndez (CL); Sergio Alvarenga (PY)
TMO: Maximiliano Miranda (AR)

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