Contepomi’s staff left little of their first look. They fell to France, 28 to 13, within the debut of the brand new stage of the previous Los Pumas striker. The French, with little or no, took a good victory. Subsequent Saturday they are going to play the rematch on the Vélez courtroom.
Originally of the Felipe Contepomi period, Los Pumas obtained France within the province of Mendoza for the primary time. The French had been within the Cuyo area on the previous excursions that had been made many years in the past, however they by no means confronted the Argentine nationwide staff in an official method. So the Malvinas Argentinas Stadium in Mendoza obtained the French with an excellent attendance of spectators to witness the take a look at match that put the Visa Banco Macro Cup into play.
With 13 World Cup gamers within the beginning line-up and a few absences compelled by call-ups for this worldwide window, the staff led by Julián Montoya was making its first take a look at on this new stage, in keeping with Contepomi, the continuity of what started two years in the past with the earlier Head Coach, Michael Cheika.
Alejandro Lezcano (Director of sponsorships for the Southern Cone), Brian Anthony (Supervisor of Transformation at Banco Macro) presenting the cup, Gabriel Travaglini (President of the UAR) and Federico Chiapetta (Undersecretary of Sports activities for the province of Mendoza)
France arrived in South America with out its essential gamers, who had been concerned within the French Prime 14 finals only a few days in the past. Fabien Galthié shall be testing gamers within the two matches towards Argentina and in his go to to Uruguay throughout the week. They had been put to the take a look at of their first match with a staff that was not well-trained and a few gamers who had not competed a lot in latest occasions. France arrived with a brand new, very younger squad, however with three weeks of preparation and 42 gamers for this tour.
The beginning was one in all research on either side and the usage of the foot as a method. The Pumas wasted their very own lineout within the opponent’s half which gave possession to France, which additionally didn’t benefit from it.
Argentina had the clearest likelihood at 17m, when a great possession discovered arms in assault. Nonetheless, Martín Bogado misplaced it meters from the French in-goal, who with a great clearance went from defending to being one step away from the strive. The penalty from the Argentine marker gave the guests the possibility to open the scoring. Hastoy, in entrance of the posts, made it 3-0 at 21m. At 25m, Santiago Carreras tied the rating with a great penalty, virtually straight on the posts (3-3). At 28m Argentina missed once more, after a brief kick that Delguy couldn’t rating. The French marker arrived with simply sufficient to shut the rating.
The Pumas had their probabilities, however they had been unable to benefit from them. The French didn’t waste them once they had them. At 36m, Serin discovered the hole and scored the primary strive (10-3). That was how the primary half ended, with some opportunism for the European staff, who scored from the one clear likelihood that they had.
France shocked a sleepy Argentinian staff at the beginning. They missed an unbelievable strive after a lineout and maul that ended with the quantity 3, Colombe, grounding the ball into the in-goal. Nonetheless, the goalpost fell brief and Argentina escaped by likelihood. Nonetheless, on the 5m mark got here the second French purpose, Frisch scoring via the centre of the defence (17-3).
The Pumas had been a staff that didn’t shock them. Static and with few variations, they entered the online that France proposed, with a great protection and with out solutions when the French needed to assault. Thus they had been once more additional behind, with one other penalty from Hastoy (20-3). At 21m, the Pumas diminished the deficit, with a strive by captain Julián Montoya, after a fast lineout (20-8). Albornoz, who had entered for Bogado, deflected the shot. Franco Molina was additionally already on the sector, making his debut with the nationwide staff.
At 26m the French put an finish to the match with the third strive. Attisogbe slipped via a really weak defence by the Argentine staff (25-8). Ten minutes from the tip one other participant made his debut for Los Pumas, the Santiago native Bautista Pedemonte. Within the ultimate minutes there was a penalty by Jaminet (28-8) and the Argentine low cost with the strive by Orlando, the Tucuman, who returned to Los Pumas after being absent from the checklist for the final World Cup (28-13).
This was the debut of Los Pumas in Felipe Contepomi’s new cycle, with only a few points to spotlight. There was no connection usually, a number of scoring alternatives had been wasted, and in protection, they weren’t constant in stopping a French staff that solely did what was needed: benefit from Argentina’s errors to win the primary match of the July window.
THE TEAMS
Argentina: 1. Thomas Gallo, 2. Julian Montoya (Captain), 3. Eduardo Bello; 4. Matias Alemanno, 5. Lucas Paulos; 6. Pablo Matera, 7. Marcos Kremer, 8. Joaquin Oviedo; Head Coach: Felipe Contepomi
The next gamers entered the match: 16. Ignacio Ruiz, 17. Mayco Vivas, 18. Lucio Sordoni, 19. Franco Molina, 20. Bautista Pedemonte, 21. Lautaro Bazan Velez. 22. Tomas Albornoz, 23. Matias Orlando
France: 1. Jean-Baptiste Gros, 2. Gaëtan Barlot, 3. Georges-Henri Colombe; 4. Hugo Auradou, 5. Baptiste Pesenti; 6. Judicaël Cancoriet, 7. Oscar Jegou, 8. Jordan Joseph; 9. Baptiste Serin (Captain), 10. Antoine Hastoy; 11. Lester Etien, 12. Antoine Frisch; 13. Émilien Gailleton, 14. Théo Attissogbe; 15. Léo Barré. Head Coach: Fabien Galthié
Entries: 16. Teddy Baubigny, 17. Sébastian Taofifenua, 18. Demba Bamba, 19. Posolo Tuilagi, 20. Mickaël Guillard, 21. Lenni Nouchi, 22. Baptiste Couilloud, 23. Melvyn Jaminet.
Stadium: Malvinas Argentinas of Mendoza
Referee: Chris Bubsy (IRFU).
Assistant: Andrew Brace (IRFU) and Eoghan Cross (IRFU).
TMO: Marius van der Westhuizen (SARU)
PT objectives: 21m, penalty by Hastoy (F); 25m, penalty by S. Carreras (A); 36m, strive by Serin transformed by Hastoy (F). Partial outcome: Argentina 3 vs. France 10. ST: 5m, strive by Frisch transformed by Hastoy (F); 16m, Hastoy penalty (F); 21m, strive by Montoya (A); 26m, strive by Attissogbe (F); 35m, penalty by Jaminet (F); 37m, strive by Orlando (A).
