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Los Pumas will swap jerseys on Saturday and run out as Los Jaguares as Super Rugby returns following its hiatus for the June internationals. Vélez Sarsfield in Buenos Aires will host the Bulls for a 6:40pm kickoff. This will be another first as the two sides have never met before.
Only two changes from the team that lost to France are made. Juan Manuel Leguizamón comes in on the flank with Javier Ortega Desio now a substitute, and Martín Landajo is back at scrumhalf as Tomás Cubelli has returned to the Brumbies. Gonzalo Bertranou fills in the reserve halfback role, and Ignacio Larrague is set to make his Super Rugby debut as he replaces Tomás Lezana on the bench.
The Bulls will have to make do without Springbok captain Adriaan Strauss, the hooker not making the trip to Argentina. Also missing through injury are forwards Trevor Nyakane, Grant Hattingh, RG Snyman, Deon Stegmann, Jacques Potgieter and backs Jan Serfontein, Bjorn Basson, and Warrick Gelant.
JAGUARES
1 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, 2 Agustín Creevy (capt.), 3 Ramiro Herrera, 4 Guido Petti, 5 Tomás Lavanini, 6 Pablo Matera, 7 Juan Manuel Leguizamón, 8 Facundo Isa, 9 Martín Landajo, 10 Nicolás Sánchez, 11 Manuel Montero, 12 Jerónimo de la Fuente, 13 Matías Moroni, 14 Santiago Cordero, 15 Joaquín Tuculet
Replacements: 16 Julián Montoya, 17 Santiago García Botta, 18 Enrique Pieretto, 19 Ignacio Larrague, 20 Javier Ortega Desio, 21 Gonzalo Bertranou, 22 Matías Orlando, 23 Lucas González Amorosino
BULLS
1 Lizo Gqoboka, 2 Bandise Maku, 3 Marcel van der Merwe, 4 Jason Jenkins, 5 Marvin Orie, 6 Roelof Smit, 7 Lappies Labuschagne (capt.), 8 Arno Botha, 9 Rudy Paige, 10 Francois Brummer, 11 Jamba Ulengo, 12 Burger Odendaal, 13 Jesse Kriel, 14 Travis Ismaiel, 15 SP Marais
Replacements: 16 Jaco Visagie, 17 Pierre Schoeman, 18 Werner Kruger, 19 Jannes Kirsten, 20 Renaldo Bothma, 21 Piet van Zyl, 22 Tian Schoeman, 23 Dries Swanepoel
