SRA 2024 – Dogos vs Pampas – ARN Guide

The Argentine derby will take place in Córdoba on Friday. The top of the table clash set Los Dogos at home against Los Pampas. Could it be a preview of the Super Rugby Americas 2024 Final? Both teams have been the most consistent this season; however, Los Dogos are coming off a less than ideal performance against Yacare.

CURRENT STANDINGS

7-1-1 (L1) 1st
7-0-1 (W5) 2nd

LINEUP CHANGES

4 Lautaro Simes replaces Federico Rolotti
11 Mateo Soler replaces Nahuel Romero
13 Agustín Segura replaces Felipe Mallia

7 Nicolás D’Amorim replaces Eliseo Chiavassa
8 Joaquín Moro replaces Tomás Bernasconi
9 Ignacio Inchauspe replaces Simón Benítez

CAPPED INTERNATIONALS

(0)
(0) Franco Molina on 2024 Pumas Roster

NOTABLE ABSENTEES

– Tomás Di Biase; Eliseo Morales; Benjamín Elizalde
– Efrain Elías; Facundo García Hamilton; Faustino Sánchez Valarolo; Lautaro Cipriani; Ernesto Giudice; Nahuel Romero

NOTES

• Both teams have missing players who started for Argentina in the u20 win over Australia on Thursday.
• Juan Manuel Leguizamón is looking for the first Pampas win against Los Dogos. The Córdoba side has won all prior meetings.
• A very low, by SRA standard, 3 changes per team have been made.
• Los Pampas are coming off a bye while Los Dogos fell to Yacare in  Paraguay. It was the first Dogos defeat of the season.

PREDICTION

Los Pampas are ready to go. The bye round combined with Los Dogos’ showing against Yacare suggest that this is a prime opportunity for a first win over the Córdoba side. Can it be done? Absolutely. The time is right for Los Pampas to get the job done. The Buenos Aires side has players in top form. ARN projects a Pampas win by 5 points.

LINEUPS

DOGOS
1 Boris Wenger, 2 Tomás Bartolini, 3 Octavio Ignacio Filippa, 4 Lautaro Simes, 5 Franco Molina (capt.), 6 Aitor Bildosola, 7 Lorenzo Colidio, 8 Valentín Cabral, 9 Agustín Moyano, 10 Julián Hernández, 11 Mateo Soler, 12 Leonardo Gea Salim, 13 Agustín Segura, 14 Nicolas Javier Olguin, 15 Agustín de Vertiz

Replacements: 16 Juan Aguirre, 17 Octavio Barbatti, 18 Pedro Delgado, 19 Federico Rolotti, 20 Facundo Cardozo, 21 Nicolás Viola, 22 Valentino de Capua, 23 Felipe Mallia

 

PAMPAS
1 Javier Corvalán, 2 Ramiro Gurovich, 3 Javier Coronel, 4 Eliseo Fourcade, 5 Rodrigo Fernández Criado, 6 Manuel Bernstein (capt.), 7 Nicolás D’Amorim, 8 Joaquín Moro, 9 Ignacio Inchauspe, 10 Joaquín de la Vega Mendía, 11 Jerónimo Ulloa, 12 Justo Piccardo, 13 Juan Pablo Castro, 14 Santiago Pernas, 15 Marcos Eliçagaray

Replacements: 16 Ignacio Bottazzini, 17, Renzo Zanella, 18 Estanislao Carullo, 19 Mateo Lorenzo, 20 Santiago Montagner, 21 Simón Benítez Cruz, 22 Manuel Nogués, 23 Bruno Heit

MATCH INFO

Date: Friday, March 02
Venue: Tala RC, Córdoba (AR)
Kickoff: 7:00pm (AR)
Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy, 17°C; wind (10-16 km/h)
Broadcasts: ESPN

OFFICIALS

Referee: Damián Schneider (AR)
Assistants: Tomas Bertazza (AR); Tomás Ninci (AR)
TMO: Gustavo Paulin (AR)

HISTORY

HEAD-TO-HEAD (4) – Dogos 5, Pampas 0, STREAK Dogos +5
Mar 08, 2024 – Pampas 14-18 Dogos (Buenos Aires, AR)
Feb 03, 2024 – Pampas 21-38 Dogos (Buenos Aires, AR)
Jun 02, 2023 – Dogos 27-16 Pampas (Córdoba, AR)
May 05, 2023 – Dogos 34-29 Pampas (Tala RC, Córdoba, AR)
Mar 16, 2023 – Pampas 11-29 Dogos (Buenos Aires, AR)