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Julian Montoya to bring up century as Pumas change 4 for Australia

Julián Montoya of Argentina walks out prior to the warming up during The Rugby Championship match between New Zealand All Blacks and Argentina at Eden Park on August 17, 2024 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Gaspafotos/MB Media/Getty Images)
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Argentina captain Julian Montoya is set to win his 100th cap on Saturday in Santa Fe against Australia in round four of the Rugby Championship.

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Following an agonising 20-19 loss to the Wallabies in La Plata last week, Felipe Contepomi has made four changes to his starting XV for the rematch.

The second-row unit has been replaced for the Pumas, with Guido Petti and Tomas Lavanini both set to start having been on the bench last week. While the Pumas have stuck with a 6-2 split on the bench, Harlequins-bound lock Franco Molina is the only member of the engine room that started last week to make the bench this week, with Pedro Rubiolo injured.

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Talismanic flyhalf Santiago Carreras has found himself demoted to the bench on this occasion, with Tomas Albornoz starting instead. The final change to the squad sees Bautista Delguy start on the right wing in Santiago Cordero’s place.

After long-serving veteran Agustin Creevy retired following last week’s match, Ignacio Ruiz is the replacement hooker for this contest.

Fixture
Rugby Championship
Argentina
67 - 27
Full-time
Australia
All Stats and Data

Argentina XV
1. GALLO, Thomas (29 caps)
2. MONTOYA, Julián (99 caps) captain
3. SCLAVI, Joel (21 caps)
4. PETTI, Guido (83 caps)
5. LAVANINI, Tomás (89 caps)
6. MATERA, Pablo (104 caps) vice-captain
7. KREMER, Marcos (70 caps)
8. GONZÁLEZ, Juan Martín (34 caps)
9. BERTRANOU, Gonzalo (63 caps)
10. ALBORNOZ, Tomás (11 caps)
11. CARRERAS, Mateo (23 caps)
12. CHOCOBARES, Santiago (24 caps)
13. CINTI, Lucio (26 caps)
14. DELGUY, Bautista (28 caps)
15. MALLÍA, Juan Cruz (36 caps) vice-captain

Replacements
16. RUIZ, Ignacio (12 caps)
17. VIVAS, Mayco (27 caps)
18. BELLO, Eduardo (26 caps)
19. MOLINA, Franco (6 caps)
20. OVIEDO, Joaquín (7 caps)
21. GRONDONA, Santiago (16 caps)
22. GARCÍA, Gonzalo (5 caps)
23. CARRERAS, Santiago (48 caps)

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David Laurenson 1 hour ago
Has the balance between attack and defence become too lopsided?

I and the many others could not disagree more. The score lines are reflective of mainly the ability of the more dominate team, on the day. Forward tries by crash n bash, The illegal mauls, where players are ahead of the ball carrier are an easy score. The one area where the offence team is king though is the Maul !The defensive capabilities to stop a maul are nil, it used to be that all players were not offside as long as they had contact with another player. This was mandatory whether or not you were at the sides or in fact anywhere in the meelay. Now you have to retreat on the refs call to the back, you can’t even tackle the ball carrier, as you then get penalized for collapsing the maul. ALL the advantage is with the offensive side, Mauls are a freeby ! The structure that favors forward participation is predicable and boring. Backs have had to become forwards ! Line speed has totally killed off, running play. To qualify the offside laws have not or seldom been altered since rugby went professional. No compensation has been made for these elite athletes of today, meaning LESS time and SPACE to find a gap. Our game is compressed. We see all games where the pass is made and the receiver getting cleaned out. What does this tell us ? As coaches you have designed a bar the door screen of players, we have pods of forwards, hitting up with intent yet hardly making the gain line, time and time again. with phase play in the thirties. Backs are now used as forwards to hit it up and hopefully retain possession from the tackled ball or ruck. If you diagnosed our game with mathematicians and engineers, they would come up with two causes. Either you have less players, or you enlarge the field of play. Of course this would not be entertained, so the obvious solution is to add a metre to all the current off side laws. WHY to give a little time and space for the offensive team to attack, that’s right the opposite to what we have just read, but for both sides this would allow some freedom for backs to be backs, less kicking, less forward interference, we may even get our game back as it would be more enjoyable to play, to follow, to ref, fans could actually view tactics in motion as against the current predictability. Compression is negative, a little separation freedom.

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