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In the second of two Friday night fixtures, Peñarol play host to Selknam in El Clásico. The Uruguayan and Chilean teams are tied for top spot of Super Rugby Americas 2025. Both teams are stacked with players who will compete in Rugby World Cup 2027 Qualifiers beginning in July.
SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS 2025 –  PEÑAROL RESULTS |
SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS 2025 –  SELKNAM RESULTS |
| SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS DEBUTANTS |
– Justo Ferrario
– Santiago Valenzuela
| STARTING LINE-UP CHANGES |
|
IN | OUT |
| 1 | Mateo Sanguinetti | Mateo Perillo |
| 2 | Guillermo Pujadas | Joaquín Myzska |
| 4 | Felipe Aliaga | Carlos Deus |
| 5 | Manuel Rosmarino | Felipe Aliaga |
| 9 | Tomás Di Biase | Santiago Álvarez |
| 11 | Juan Manuel Alonso | Ignacio Facciolo |
| 15 | Justo Ferrario | Manuel Cardoso Pinto |
|
IN | OUT |
| 3 | Nahuel Dibiassi | Iñaki Gurruchaga |
| 11 | Felipe Méndez | Nicolás Saab |
| 13 | Nicolás Saab | Domingo Saavedra |
| CAPPED INTERNATIONALS |
– (15 capped by Uruguay) – Sanguinetti, Pujadas, Aliaga, Civetta, Bianchi, Diana, Etcheverry, Alonso, Arcos Pérez, Basso, Myszka, Perillo, Deus, Álvarez, Amarillo
– (15 capped by Chile) Carrasco, Martínez, Pedrero, Sigren, Escobar, Milesi, Torrealba, Reyes, Garafulic, Saab, Salas, Delgado, Lues, Sáez, Kuzmanic
| NOTES |
- 30 capped South American test players will feature in the match.
- Peñarol have a five match winning-streak against Selknam.
- Selknam’s Tomás Salas is the leading SRA 2025 point-scorer with 49 points.
- Manuel Rosmarino earns his first start of SRA 2025. His usual position is back-row.
- 18-year-old Justo Ferrario debuts for Peñarol at fullback.
- Bautista Farise and Alfonso Escobar have a 100% tackle completion rate this season.
- Manuel Diana leads the SRA 2025 off-loading stats with 4 thus far this season.
- Raimundo Martínez has made the most turn-overs with 5.
- Peñarol lost Portuguese fullback Manuel Cardoso Pinto to a broken toe. It is consecutive losses for Peñarol after Juan Manuel Rodriguez ruptured his achilles one week earlier against Yacare.
- Selknam’s captain Domingo Saavedra was injured in the win over Los Dogos. His twin brother, Clemente Saavedra is recovering from injury suffered against Scotland ‘A’ in November.
- El Clásico was the inaugural Super Rugby Americas fixture. Selknam upset Peñarol 14-13 at the Estadio Charrúa in 2020. The South American league was then called the Súper Liga Americana de Rugby.
- Mateo Sanguinetti, Guillermo Pujadas, Santiago Civetta, and Felipe Etcheverry were involved in the inaugural fixture for Peñarol.
- Selknam prop Javier Carrasco and flanker Martín Sigren are the two survivors from the inaugural match who will play Peñarol this weekend.
| PREDICTION |
Uruguay and Chile both plan on competing at Rugby World Cup 2027. World Rugby only allocated South America one spot which means whoever is South America 2 has a more complicated route. Both test teams will have heavy contingents of Peñarol and Selknam players involved in the match in Montevideo on Friday. Hot conditions are expected at the Estadio Charrúa. Fortunately for the players, the match will be kick-off at 9pm. Peñarol are favorites to win at home.
| LINEUPS |
PEÑAROL
1 Mateo Sanguinetti, 2 Guillermo Pujadas, 3 Bautista Vidal, 4 Felipe Aliaga, 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Santiago Civetta, 7 Lucas Bianchi, 8 Manuel Diana (capt.), 9 Tomás Di Biase, 10 Felipe Etcheverry, 11 Juan Manuel Alonso, 12 Bautista Farise, 13 Felipe Arcos Pérez, 14 Bautista Basso, 15 Justo Ferrario
Replacements: 16 Joaquín Myszka, 17 Mateo Perillo, 18 Francisco Suárez, 19 Federico de Los Santos, 20 Carlos Deus, 21 Santiago Álvarez, 22 Ícaro Amarillo, 23 Alfonso Perillo Albarracin
SELKNAM
1 Javier Carrasco, 2 Raimundo Martínez, 3 Nahuel Dibiassi, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Agustín Toth, 6 Martín Sigren (capt.), 7 Alfonso Escobar, 8 Joaquín Milesi, 9 Marcelo Torrealba, 10 Juan Cruz Reyes, 11 Felipe Méndez, 12 Matías Garafulic, 13 Nicolás Saab, 14 Federico Kennedy, 15 Tomás Salas
Replacements: 16 Jorge Delgado, 17 Salvador Lues, 18 Baltazar Gurruchaga, 19 Bruno Sáez, 20 Andrés Kuzmanic, 21 Santiago Valenzuela, 22 Ignacio Arias, 23 Marco Alvano
| MATCH INFO |
Date: Friday, March 07
Venue: Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo (UY)
Kickoff: 9pm (UY); 9pm (CL)
Weather Forecast: Excessive Heat, 31°C; Wind 18 km/h
Broadcasts: ESPN; Disney +
| OFFICIALS |
Referee: Nehuén Jauri Rivero (AR)
Assistants: Cauã Ricardo (BR); Armen Abi Saab (UY)
TMO: Andrés Sutton (AR)
| HEAD-TO-HEAD (11) – Peñarol 8, Selknam 3, STREAK Peñarol +5 |
May 03, 2024 – Peñarol 35-17 Selknam (Montevideo, UY)
Mar 09, 2023 – Selknam 23-25 Peñarol (Santiago, CL)
May 26, 2023 – Peñarol 31-08 Selknam (Montevideo, CL)
Mar 24, 2023 – Selknam 24-35 Peñarol (Santiago, CL)
May 27, 2022 – Peñarol 24-13 Selknam (Montevideo, UY)
May 15, 2022 – Peñarol 08-15 Selknam (Montevideo, UY)
Apr 08, 2022 – Peñarol 31-03 Selknam (Ciudad del Este, PY)
May 08, 2021 – Peñarol 17-14 Selknam (Montevideo, UY)
Apr 26, 2021 – Peñarol 17-27 Selknam (Montevideo, UY)
Mar 30, 2021 – Selknam 22-26 Peñarol (Santiago, CL)
Mar 04, 2020 – Peñarol 13-14 Selknam (Montevideo, UY)
