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Le sélectionneur Michael Cheika n’a effectué qu’un seul changement par rapport à l’équipe qui a battu le Pays de Galles 29-17, en rappelant Gonzalo Bertranou à la place de Tomás Cubelli à la mêlée.
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XV de départ
1 Thomas Gallo
2 Julian Montoya (c)
3 Francisco Gómez Kodela
4 Guido Petti Pagadizabal
5 Tomas Lavanini
6 Juan Martin Gonzalez
7 Marcos Kremer
8 Facundo Isa
9 Gonzalo Bertranou
10 Santiago Carreras
11 Mateo Carreras
12 Santiago Chocobares
13 Lucio Cinti
14 Emiliano Boffelli
15 Juan Cruz Mallia
Remplaçants
16 Agustín Creevy
17 Joel Sclavi
18 Eduardo Bello
19 Matias Alemanno
20 Rodrigo Bruni
21 Lautaro Bazan Velez
22 Nicolas Sanchez
23 Matías Moroni
Par rapport au XV de départ qui s’était incliné 41-12 contre les All Blacks à Mendoza le 7 août 2022, on compte quatre changements dans le paquet d’avants et deux dans la ligne arrière. Cheika a toutefois conservé la même charnière (Gonzalo Bertranou et Santiago Carreras).
Deux victoires emblématiques contre les All Blacks
Sept joueurs argentins présents sur la feuille de match de la dernière demi-finale de Coupe du Monde de Rugby des Pumas, disputée en 2015 contre l’Australie, figurent dans les 23 qui s’apprêtent à affronter la Nouvelle-Zélande : Matías Alemanno, Agustín Creevy, Facundo Isa, Tomas Lavanini, Nicolás Sanchez, Guido Petti et le capitaine Julián Montoya.
Six joueurs argentins présents sur la feuille de match ont participé aux deux dernières victoires des Pumas contre les All Blacks : Matías Alemanno, Gonzalo Bertranou, Santigao Carreras, Marcos Kremer, Guido Petti et le capitaine Julian Montoya.
Marcos Kremer et Juan Martin Gonzalez sont les deux seuls joueurs des Pumas à avoir été titularisés à chaque match de l’Argentine dans cette RWC 2023.
Nicolás Sanchez, la botte secrète
Avec 151 points à son compteur, Nicolás Sanchez est le deuxième marqueur le plus prolifique de l’histoire face aux All Blacks derrière l’Australien Matt Burke (176 points).
C’est lui qui a marqué en 2020 les 25 points de la première victoire de l’histoire des Pumas contre les All Blacks.
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Il n’a pas manqué un seul coup de pied au but lors de la RWC 2023 (11 sur 11).
Emiliano Boffelli est le meilleur marqueur des Pumas dans le tournoi. Il est le quatrième Argentin à avoir marqué au moins 50 points dans une même Coupe du Monde de Rugby, après les 102 points de Gonzalo Quesada en 1999, les 91 points de Felipe Contepomi en 2007 et les 97 points de Nicolás Sanchez en 2015.
En 2022, il a marqué 20 points (six pénalités et une transformation) lors de la victoire des Pumas sur les All Blacks (25-18).
Un pack puissant
Thomas Gallo est le pilier qui a battu le plus de défenseurs lors de la Coupe du Monde 2023 – 18, soit neuf de plus que le Tongien Ben Tameifuna et l’Australien Angus Bell
Marcos Kremer est le joueur argentin qui a réussi le plus de plaquages (55). Il compte aussi le deuxième plus grand nombre de plaquages dominants (5) derrière Mateo Carreras (6)
Il est le joueur qui a réussi le plus grand nombre de plaquages (25) lors de la dernière victoire contre les All Blacks en 2022.
Agustín Creevy, toujours le plus âgé
À 38 ans et 219 jours au jour du match, Agustín Creevy deviendra le joueur le plus âgé à disputer une demi-finale de Coupe du Monde de Rugby. Il dépassera ainsi le Sud-Africain Victor Matfield qui avait 38 ans et 166 jours contre les All Blacks en 2015
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Lors de cette demi-finale, il jouera son 21e match en Coupe du Monde de Rugby et rejoindra ainsi l’Australien James Slipper et le Gallois Alun Wyn Jones au rang des quatrièmes joueurs les plus capés de l’histoire du tournoi.
Facundo Isa, impressionnant
Facundo Isa célèbrera sa 50e sélection. Il a fait ses débuts en 2014 contre l’Écosse. Il a disputé 25 matchs lors de ses deux premières années en sélection avant d’y revenir en 2019 et de cumuler ses 24 derniers test-matchs. Il retrouvera les All Blacks pour la première fois depuis 2020
Il s’est montré impressionnant offensivement le week-end dernier en réalisant 13 courses avec ballon pour 89 mètres parcourus, six défenseurs battus et un franchissement
Santiago Carreras était à l’origine de la plupart des offensives argentines lors du dernier match. Il affiche le plus grand nombre de courses avec ballon (14), 112 mètres parcourus, deux franchissements et le deuxième plus grand nombre de défenseurs battus (4)
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If Havili can play anywhere in the back line, why not first 5. #10.
11 Go to commentsThe dressing room had already left for their summer break before they ran out in Dublin that year, and that’s on the coach. Franco Smith has undoubtedly made progress, particularly their maul, developing squad players and increasing squad depth. And against a very tight budget too. That said they were too lightweight last year and got found out against both Toulon and Munster in consecutive games. Better this season so far but they’ve developed something of a slow start habit occasionally, most notably losing at home to Northampton who played them at their own game. Play offs will ultimately show whether there has been tangible progress on last year, or not…!
2 Go to commentsAustralian Rugby has been a disaster, by not incorporating learning from previous successful campaigns. QLD Reds 2011 - Waratahs 2014. Players, coaches and administrators appoint there representatives for scheduled meetings, organisation’s agreement’s assessments and correspondence. This why a unified Rugby Union under one entity works. Every Rugby nation has taken that path. Was most difficult in the Northern hemisphere with over 100 years of club rugby before the game become professional. Took a lot of humility for those unions to eventually work together.
7 Go to commentsThough Wilson’s sacking was pretty brutal, it wasn’t just down to that Leinster game; Glasgow had a lot of 2nd half collapses that season, in the URC and Europe, and only just scraped into the playoffs. Franco Smith has definitely been an improvement, some players are delivering far more than they did under Wilson.
2 Go to commentsjesus - that front 5!
1 Go to commentsShould be an absolute cracker of a game! Will be great to see DuPont & Ntamack in tandem once again🔥
1 Go to commentsBest team ever…. To have played? These guys are still pressure chokers. Came nowhere when it counted. What a joke
69 Go to commentsMusk defends anonymous terrorism, fascism, threats against individuals and children etc etc But a Rugby club account….lock ‘em up!!!
1 Go to commentsActually the era defining moment came a few years earlier. February 2002 to be precise, when Michael D Higgins as finance minister at the time introduced his sports persons tax relief bill to the dial. As the politicians of the day stated “It seems to be another daft K Club frolic born in Kildare amongst the well-paid professional jockeys with whom the Minister plays golf” and that the scheme represented “a savage uncaring vision of Ireland and one that should be condemned”. The irfu and Leinster would be nowhere near the position they are in today without this key component of the finances.
2 Go to commentsIt is crystal clear that people who make such threats on line should be tried and imprisoned. Those with responsibility in social media companies who don’t facilitate this should be convicted. In real life, I have free speech to approach someone like Reinach and verbally threaten him. I am risking a conviction or a slap but I could do it. In the old days, If someone anonymously threatened someone by letter the police would ask and use evidence from the postal system. Unlike the Post, social media companies have complete instant and legal access to the content in social media. They make money from the data, billions. Yet, they turn a blind eye to terrorism, Nazi-ism and industrial levels of threats against individuals including their address and childrens schools being published online all from ananoymous accounts not real people. They claim free speech. Free speech for anonymous trolls/voilent thugs threatening people under false names? The fault is with the perps but also social media companies who think anonymous personas posting death threats constitutes free speech.
2 Go to commentsSo if this ain’t the best Irish team ever then who exactly is? I don’t remember any other Irish team being this good & winning a series in the Land of the Long White Cloud. Yes I may rip them often for 8 X QF RWC exits & twice not even making it to the QF, but they’re a damn good team who many think can only improve, including me!
69 Go to commentsNot a squeek out of Leinster for weeks about this match. So quiet. The first team have been quitely building for this encounter under Nienaber’s direction. All fresh, all highly motivated. They are expecting a season’s best performance from Northhampton. They will match that. They will be fresher and apparently they will have 80,000 out of the 83,000 shouting for them. I do expect Northhampton to turn up big time. Not to be missed. On a tangent it is evident how the loss of a few Premiership teams has in some respect helped other Premiership teams and England. More quality over less teams makes the teams better, which has a knock on effect on England. Not the only factor contributing to England’s rise but one of them.
2 Go to commentsOur very own monster teddy bear Ox😍💪
17 Go to commentsThis is might be the most generalised, entitled, patronising, out-of-pocket cultural indictment on a group of people you’ll ever see on what is supposedly a sports publication. I can only assume the author is weak like a woman or homosexual. I’m feeling an incredible range of emotions but I am not quite sure how to express them. I might go beat up a hockey player - assuming that’s okay with Duane and the boys? 🙂
9 Go to commentsBest thing the Welsh clubs could do is apply to join Gallagher prem surely be more exciting matches for there support than they have now.
2 Go to commentsRugbyPass writers are useless! you guys should get a real job because you all suck at writing about rugby!!!
9 Go to commentslooking forward to RWC2027 …. Boks on mission impossible for the Three-in-a-row, ABs to prove they being on par, France wishing to crown the “DuPont-era”, Ireland knocking on the Semi-Door ….. until then we’ll probably have to deal with Weird Ben’s fantasy-RWC23 (fun fact is, the drivel always creates a flooding of comments) …..
222 Go to commentsBen Smith you really make some good points in this article, the Springboks were not close to perfect and good still beat the All Blacks, imagine if they were as good as they were against France what a hiding the All Blacks would have gotten… maybe another Twickenham drubbing
222 Go to commentsIt is a good argument to keep the Rebels for one more year but also isnt this just opening the door as well for keeping them beyond 2025. If they can create some sort of financial stability in the next year and if their performances lift as they have this season then how would RA even cull them after that? It might be the most cost effective decision at this stage and perhaps many people are guilty of keeping relationships going because of the cost to decouple but then again when does that ever work out well?
29 Go to commentsDear Ben Smith you are a genius! God please become the next all blacks coach that can take on the mighty BOKS. Your rugby acumen is second to none - imagine your dads sperm bounced as unfortunately as that oval ball did….we would not be blessed with your presence. Just as the all blacks were missing a man you too are missing a chromosome for 80% of your life, so your insights are not only profound but ring true from your own experiences. Just as the TMO interfered with citing an illegal pass I am sure your local authorities interfere with your illegal passes you make on women - How dare they!!! God forbid that rugby be officiated fairly. You are the right man for the job. Next all blacks coach is here ladies and gentlemen Miss Ben Smith (He/She/They/IT)
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