Super Rugby Americas – Week 10 – ARN Guide

Week 10 of Super Rugby Americas (SRA) features two Friday fixtures and two Saturday fixtures. Three of the four matches will have play-off’s repercussions and the remaining match is a pivotal fixture to determine avoiding bottom spot.

The action opens in Rosario where history will be made. The first-ever professional rugby contest between teams based in Rosario and Buenos Aires sees Los Capibaras having home advantage against Los Pampas. The teams are positioned 3rd and 2nd respectively. Their previous encounter in Buenos Aires was competitive with Los Pampas winning by 5 points.

Game two on Friday sees Yacare playing host to Os Cobras in Asunción. It is 7th at home against 8th with Yacare on 11 points and Os Cobras having 7. The 6th placed Peñarol are on 21 points. For all purposes, this is not only the basement clash, but also the unofficial final to avoid finishing SRA 2026 in last position.

Saturday’s two matches also see one match between two Argentine matches and one between two from different countries. The Argentine clash sees Los Dogos at home against Los Tarucas. It is the competition leaders hosting the 5th places side.

Los Tarucas are under heavy pressure now that they have been overtaken by Selknam. Moreover, their match in Córdoba comes hours after Selknam face Peñarol in El Clásico in Santiago. Selknam enter Week 10 on 27 competition points while Los Tarucas are on 23.

 

SRA STANDINGS

TEAM	GP	W	L	D	PF	PA	PD	BP	PTS
Dogos (Córdoba)	9	8	1	–	275	197	+78	5	37
Pampas (Buenos Aires)	9	7	2	–	308	205	+103	9	37
Capibaras (Rosario)	9	6	3	–	279	191	+88	6	31
Selknam (Santiago)	9	5	4	–	240	284	-44	4	27
Tarucas (Tucumán)	9	5	4	–	261	254	+7	3	23
Peñarol (Montevideo)	9	4	5	–	219	257	-38	5	21
Yacare (Asunción)	9	1	8	–	194	236	-42	7	11
Cobras (São Paulo)	9	1	8	–	177	348	-171	3	7

 

SRA WEEK 10 – FIXTURES

FRIDAY			Hipódromo Independencia, Rosario	5pm
FRIDAY			Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción	8pm
SATURDAY			Saint George’s College, Santiago	3pm
SATURDAY			Córdoba Athletic Club, Córdoba	8pm

 

NOTES

• The opening match of Week 10 sees Los Capibaras naming a rotated line-up. Diego Correa, Lucas Bur, Ignacio Gandini, and Guido Chesini are in for Franco Benítez, Jerónimo Gómez Vara, and Bruno Heit respectively.
• The trio of Lorenzo Colidio, Ignacio Gandini, and Manuel Bernstein all reach 50 SRA appearances this weekend. They all joined Los Capibaras from rivals this season.
• Los Pampas welcome back Juan Penocuos at flanker. Other changes see Jerónimo Ulloa oin for Puma Santiago Cordero and a start for Estanislao Renthel in place of the in-form Bautista Farisé.
• Santos Cayol will make his SRA debut for Los Pampas as a replacement.
• Ethan Turner debuts for Os Cobras, as a replacement, and becomes the first Canadian Cobra.
• In Addition to Turner, Os Cobras face Yacare with South Africans (Rosko Specman, Tasriq Mynhardt, and Mogimotsi Mokunyane) and Argentines (Facundo Moreno, Lautaro Facundo, and Julián Leszczynski).
• Argentine Nahuel Kacerosky makes his SRA debut for Yacare, doing so as a replacement.
• Kacerosky is joined by fellow Argentines Valentino Marciali, and Francisco Gaspes on the bench.
• Yacare’s starting line-up contains ten Argentines: Francisco Calello, Ramiro Amarilla, Joaquín Lamas, Juan Cruz Strada, Juan Bautista Mernes, Manuel Todaro, Joaquín Domínguez, Mateo Gasparotti, Rodolfo Rivadeneira, and Nicolas Toth.
• Os Cobras only win thus far this season was 21-19 against Yacare in São Paulo.
• South America’s no 1 referee, Damián Schneider, will take charge of Yacare vs Cobras.
• Peñarol travel to Chile needing a win. Felipe Aliaga leads a side with Uruguayan test players Francisco Suárez, Joaquín Myszka, Manuel Rosmarino, Manuel Ardao, Lucas Bianchi, Manuel Diana, Joaquín Suárez, Justo Ferrario, Juan Manuel Alonso, and Ignacio Facciolo.
• Center Joaquín Súarez plays out of position at scrum-half for the Uruguayan side.
• Canadian Noah Flesch gets further game time for Peñarol from inside center. James Thiel and Ethan Fryer wait for opportunities as replacements.

 

SRA WEEK 10 – LINE-UPS

CAPIBARAS
1 Diego Correa, 2 Martín Vaca, 3 Enzo Avaca, 4 Lorenzo Colidio, 5 Lucas Bur, 6 Ignacio Gandini, 7 Felipe Villagrán, 8 Manuel Bernstein (capt.), 9 Alejo Sugasti, 10 Juan Bautista Baronio, 11 Gino Dicapua, 12 Guido Chesini, 13 Bautista Estellés, 14 Lautaro Cipriani, 15 Franco Rossetto

Replacements: 16 Bernardo Lis, 17 Juan Ignacio Rodríguez, 18 Ignacio Orsetti, 19 Franco Benítez, 20 Bautista Grenón, 21 Juan Lovell , 22 Bruno Heit, 23 Ignacio Dogliani

PAMPAS
1 Matías Medrano, 2 Ignacio Bottazzini, 3 Marcos Camerlinckx, 4 Rodrigo Fernández Criado, 5 Marceo Toledo, 6 Juan Penoucos, 7 Faustino Santarelli, 8 Juan Pablo Bernasconi, 9 Lucas Marguery (capt.), 10 Estanislao Renthel, 11 Jeronimo Ulloa, 12 Felipe Ledesma, 13 Agustín Fraga, 14 Santiago Pernas, 15 Tobías Wade

Replacements: 16 Francsico Lusarreta, 17 Nahuel Zunini, 18 Ramiro Berardi Calvo, 19 Santos Cayol, 20 Lucas Moresco, 21 Alejo Lavayén, 22 Bautista Farisé, 23 Alfonso Latorre

 

YACARE
1 Nicolás Toth, 2 Matías Benítez, 3 Rodolfo Rivadeneira, 4 Mateo Gasparotti, 5 Joaquín Domínguez, 6 Ariel Núñez, 7 Manuel Todaro, 8 Juan Bautista Mernes, 9 Juan Cruz Strada, 10 Joaquín Lamas, 11 Juan González, 12 Sebastián Urbieta, 13 Ramiro Amarilla (capt.), 14 Joaquín Mussi, 15 Francisco Calello

Replacements: 16 Valentino Marciali, 17 Camilo Blasco, 18 Estefano Aranda, 19 Nahuel Kacerosky, 20 Francisco Bareiro, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Francisco Gaspes, 23 Facundo Paiva

COBRAS
1 Brendon Alves, 2 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 3 Facundo Moreno, 4 Cleber Dias, 5 Hélder Lúcio, 6 Renato Santos, 7 Matheus Cláudio, 8 Adrio de Melo, 9 Gustavo Gobeti, 10 João do Amaral, 11 Robson Morais, 12 Robert Tenório, 13 Lorenzo Massari Temer (capt.), 14 Tasriq Mynhardt, 15 Rosko Specman

Replacements: 16 João Arraez, 17 Henrique Ferreira, 18 Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, 19 Gabriel Oliveira, 20 Mogimotsi Mokunyane, 21 André Arruda, 22 Ethan Turner, 23 Julián Leszczynski

 

SELKNAM
1 Emilio Shea, 2 Augusto Böhme , 3 Ignacio Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Augusto Toth, 6 Clemente Saavedra (capt.), 7 Alfonso Escobar, 8 Santiago Montagner, 9 Lucas Berti, 10 Rodrigo Fernández, 11 Nicolás Saab, 12 Matías Garafulic, 13 Domingo Saavedra, 14 Nicolás Garafulic, 15 Cristóbal Game

Replacements: 16 Salvador Lues, 17 Javier Carrasco, 18 Baltazar Gurruchaga, 19 Max Schlesinger, 20 Martín Sigrén, 21 Marcelo Torrealba, 22 Clemente Armstrong, 23 Manuel José Bustamante Fernández

PENAROL
1 Francisco Suárez, 2 Joaquín Myszka, 3 Agustín Iglesias, 4 Felipe Aliaga (capt.), 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Manuel Ardao, 7 Lucas Bianchi, 8 Manuel Diana, 9 Joaquín Suárez, 10 Justo Ferrario, 11 Santiago Marolda, 12 Noah Flesch, 13 Juan Manuel Alonso, 14 Ignacio Facciolo, 15 Nicolás Pittaluga

Replacements: 16 Sebastián Pérez, 17 Mateo Perillo, 18 Jesús Porro, 19 Ethan Fryer, 20 Manuel Ponte, 21 Ícaro Amarillo, 22 Tomás Baca Castex, 23 James Thiel

 

DOGOS
1 Nicolás Revol Pitt, 2 Tomás Montilla, 3 Octavio Filippa, 4 Valentín Gozálvez, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 Lautaro Simes, 7 Valentín Cabral (capt.), 8 Gastón Garayzabal, 9 Nicolás Viola, 10 Facundo Rodríguez, 11 Agustín De Vertiz, 12 Faustino Sánchez Valarolo, 13 Agustín Segura, 14 Mateo Soler, 15 Mateo Sánchez

Replacements: 16 Juan Greising Revol, 17 Francisco Aguirre, 18 Galo Fernández, 19 Lucio Willington, 20 Augusto Cugnini, 21 Genaro Podestá, 22 Facundo Pueyrredón, 23 Ernesto Giúdice

TARUCAS
1 Francisco Palazzi Barrientos, 2 José Calderoni Zenteno, 3 Rodrigo Navarro, 4 Joaquin Aguilar, 5 Franco Marini Linares, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Estanislao Pregot, 10 Stefano Ferro, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Matías Orlando (capt.), 14 Mateo Pasquini, 15 Nicolás María Macome

Replacements: 16 Raul Enrique Guraiib, 17 Ignacio Lazarte, 18 Francisco Moreno, 19 Luciano Asevedo, 20 Santiago Melitón Heredia, 21 Matías Sauze, 22 Ignacio Cerrutti, 23 Tomás Elizalde

 

MATCH OFFICIALS

VS
Referee: Pablo Deluca (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Sergio Alvarenga (Paraguay); Tomás Ninci (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Nicolás Cotic (Argentina); Federico Solari (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Federico Longobardi (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Sebastián Toledo (Chile); Esteban Filipanics (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Simón Larrubia (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Juan Sebastián Maio (Argentina); Tomás Ninci (Argentina)