SRA 2024 – Peñarol vs Yacare – ARN Guide

4th hosts 2nd on Friday in Super Rugby Americas 2024. Peñarol take on Yacare in a fixture between two in-form teams. Peñarol called-upon nerves of steel in their come-from-behind win over Selknam in Chile while Yacare broke records in their humbling win over Os Cobras.

CLUB DEBUTS

(0)
(2) – Ignacio Álvarez, Santiago Martirene

SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS DEBUTS

(0)
(2) – Ignacio Álvarez, Santiago Martirene*
* – Pro Debut

CAPPED INTERNATIONALS

(11) E Quinteros (PY), I Martínez (PY), M Garcete (PY), A Núñez (PY), J González (PY), S Urbieta (PY), A López (PY), D Cabral (PY), JJ Heisecke (PY), G Bareiro (PY); R Moyano (AR)

(12) – M Perillo, M Sanguinetti, M Franco, JM Rodríguez, S Civetta, C Deus, L Bianchi, M Diana, S Álvarez, JM Alonso, I Álvarez, JA Zuccarino

NOTABLE ABSENTEES

– Nicolás Parada Heit, Juan Manuel Molinuevo, Tomás MacCall

– Felipe Aliaga, Baltazar Amaya, Felipe Arcos Pérez, Bautista Basso, Lucas Bianchi, Ignacio Facciolo, Gastón Mieres, Juan Manuel Tafernaberry, Mateo Viñals

NOTES

• Peñarol are looking to extend their winning streak against Yacare to 5 wins.
• Yacare lead the Super Rugby Americas 2024 try statistics with 20.
• Yacare also lead ruck statistics with a 95% retention rate. Peñarol are 2nd with 92%.
• Yacare’s Joaquín Lamas is the top point scorer this season with 42 points.
• Yacare’s Ramiro Parada is the only player in SRA 2024 with a 100% successful tackle rate.
• Peñarol have the best lineout in Super Rugby Americas with 92% success.
• Joaquín Myszka has 5 tries for Peñarol. This is the most by any player in SRA 2024.
• Replacement hooker Ignacio Palillo is uncapped but has played for the Paraguay XV. He is Argentine.
• The highly rated Argentine Lucio Anconetani is again on the bench behind the Paraguayan lock duo of Ignacio Martínez and Mariano Garcete.
• Prop Santiago Martirene will make his SRA debut for Peñarol at the age of 19.

PREDICTION

Friday’s match-up puts together two teams who have been asking serious questions of their opponents. Yacare’s wins have been impressive as have the losses. Peñarol has been able to continue to shuffle the team and play good rugby. Peñarol are favorites for a bonus point home win.

LINEUPS

PENAROL
1 Mateo Perillo, 2 Joaquin Myszka, 3 Mathias Franco, 4 Juan Manuel Rodríguez, 5 Agustín Morales, 6 Santiago Civetta (capt.), 7 Carlos Deus, 8 Manuel Diana, 9 Santiago Álvarez, 10 Ícaro Amarillo, 11 Dante Soto, 12 Juan Andrés Zuccarino, 13 Juan Manuel Alonso, 14 Koba Brazionis, 15 Juan Bautista Hontou

Replacements: 16 Francisco García, 17 Mateo Sanguinetti, 18 Santiago Martirene, 19 Manuel Rosmarino, 20 Lucas Bianchi, 21 Pedro Hoblog, 22 Ignacio Álvarez, 23 Joaquín Suárez

YACARE
1 Ezequiel Reyes, 2 Axel Zapata, 3 Enrique Quinteros, 4 Ignacio Martínez, 5 Mariano Garcete (capt.), 6 Felipe Puertas, 7 Juan Pérez Rachel, 8 Ariel Núñez, 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 Rodolfo Rivadeneira, 19 Juan José Heisecke, 20 Lucio Anonetani, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Tomás Vanni, 23 Facundo Paiva

MATCH INFO

Date: Friday, March 15
Venue: Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo (UY)
Kickoff: 8pm (UY); 8pm (PY)
Weather Forecast: Party Cloudy, 23°C; wind (19-24 km/h)
Broadcasts: ESPN Star +

OFFICIALS

Referee: Nehuén Jauri Rivero (AR)
Assistants: Mauro Rossi y Marcelo Piñeyro
TMO: Alejandro Longres

HISTORY

HEAD-TO-HEAD (4) – Peñarol 5, Yacare 1, STREAK Peñarol +4
Jun 02, 2023 – Peñarol 30-17 Yacare (Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo, UY)
Apr 15, 2023 – Yacare 17-43 Peñarol (Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción, PY)
Mar 17, 2023 – Peñarol 45-12 Yacare (Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo, UY)
May 04, 2022 – Peñarol 42-14 Olímpia Lions (Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo, UY)
Mar 27, 2022 – Olímpia Lions 15-13 Peñarol (Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción, PY)
Apr 11, 2021 – Peñarol 29-10 Olímpia Lions (Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo, UY)
Mar 16, 2021 – Olímpia Lions 11-40 Peñarol (Estadio Nacional, Santiago, CL)