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Coach Michael Cheika confirmed this Wednesday the lineup that the Argentine rugby team, Los Pumas, will presentin the duel on Friday semifinals against the New Zealand All Blacksfor the World Cup of the discipline that is held in France.
The match will be played starting at 4:00 p.m. Argentine time at the Stade de France, in Saint Denis. There will be television from the ESPN cable signal.
The albiceleste line-up will include a single modification, compared to the fifteen that comes from defeating Wales 29-17, in the quarterfinal clash, in Marseille.
In this way, Mendocino scrum half Gonzalo Bertranou will go for Tomás Cubelli.
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The Los Pumas formation will then nucleate Thomas Gallo, Julian Montoya (captain) and Francisco Gomez Kodela; Guido Petti and Thomas Lavanini; John Martin Gonzalez, Mark Kremer and Facundo Isa; Bertranou and James Carreras; Matthew Carreras, James Chocobares, Lucio Cinti and Emiliano Boffelli; John Cruz Mallia.
On the substitutes’ bench will be Agustín Creevy, Joel Sclavi, Eduardo Bello, Matías Alemanno, Rodrigo Bruni, Lautaro Bazán Vélez, Nicolás Sánchez and Matías Moroni.
The Santa Fe Chocobares center will be present after having received approval from the event’s medical staff, after applying the aforementioned “concussion protocol” for a blow to the head that it suffered last Saturday and which forced its replacement in the match against the Welsh.
The team rested today and did not perform any tasks, while tomorrow they will develop slight physical movements, waiting for Friday’s duel.
Two changes in the All Blacks to face Los Pumas
The New Zealand rugby team, All Blacks, will present two variants to face Los Pumas this Friday.
The coach of the three-time world champions (1987, 2011, 2015), Ian Fosterresolved the income of the second line Samuel Whitelock and from the wing Mark Tele’a.
In this way, the players Brodie Retallick (will go to the substitute bench) and the injured Leicester Fainga’anuku (not even among the 23 called) will leave the main fifteen that beat Ireland 28-24, respectively.
The New Zealand team’s lineup will then include Ethan De Groot, Codie Taylor and Tyrel Lomax; Whitelock and Scott Barrett; Shannon Frizell, Sam Cane (captain) and Ardie Savea; Aaron Smith and Richie Mo’unga; Tele’a, Jordie Barrett, Rieko Ioane and Will Jordan; Beauden Barrett.
On the relay bench will be Samisoni Taukei’aho, Tamaiti Williams, Fletcher Newell, Brodie Retallick, Dalton Papali’i, Finlay Christie, Damian McKenzie and Anton Lienert-Brown.
The All Blacks won the previous three World Cup clashes they had with Los Pumas, throughout history.
In the first edition in 1987, the New Zealand team, host and eventual champion, beat its Albiceleste team 46-15 in the group stage.
In the 2011 edition, also held in New Zealand, the All Blacks won 33-10 in the quarterfinals.
The last confrontation in the World Cups took place in England 2015, in the qualifying stage, and the victory belonged to the representative of Oceania, 26-16.
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