The coach of Los Pumas, the Australian Michael Cheika, confirmed the starting lineup for next Saturday’s match against New Zealand, for the third date of the Rugby Championship tournament, to be held at the Oregantheory Stadium in the city of Christchurch.Si the team that achieved the historic victory against Australia by 48 to 17 is taken as a reference, this time there will be three modifications. Among the forwards, the pillar Joel Sclavi will enter for Francisco Gómez Kodela, who will be marginalized for the rest of the competition to be operated on a pubalgia, and among the backs will enter the Tucuman Matías Orlando replacing the injured Jerónimo De la Fuente and Lucio Cinti by Juan Imhoff, who did not travel to New Zealand territory.
All set in Christchurch! These will be the 23 Pumas that will play the match against the All Blacks. Saturday 27/8
⏰ 4:45 a.m.
Orangetheory StadiumAre you ready to cheer? #VamosLosPumas pic.twitter.com/vN1ehxHH3T — Los Pumas (@lospumas)
August 24, 2022
In this way, Los Pumas will form before the All Blacks with: Juan Cruz Mallía; Lucio Cinti, Matías Moroni, Matías Orlando and Emiliano Boffelli; Santiago Carreras and Gonzalo Bertranou; Pablo Matera, Marcos Kremer and Juan Martin González; Tomás Lavanini and Matías Alemanno; Joel Sclavi, Julián Montoya (captain) and Thomas Gallo.The bench of substitutes will be made up of Santiago Socino, Mayco Vivas, Eduardo Bello, Guido Petti, Santiago Grondona, Tomás Cubelli, Tomás Albornoz and Santiago Cordero.It is worth mentioning that Argentina leads the Rugby Championship standings with five points, as well as Australia, while South Africa and New Zealand have four units.
