Dogos Show why they are Champions against the Rookie Tarucas

Los Dogos showed why they are the defending Super Rugby Americas Champions. Los Cordobeses came back from an early 10-0 deficit to convincingly defeat the rookie Tarucas in Tucumán on Friday. The 43-29 victory sees additional changes to the standings in the run-in to the play-off’s.

• Nicolás Roger opened the scoring with a penalty in Los Tarucas’ first attack in the opposition’s half.
• 3-0 became 10-0 as Roger took a quick-tap from a penalty five meters in front of his team’s posts. Roger ran left and Simón Benitez Cruz scored 95 meters away. The scrum-half is arguably on the Pumas’ radar this year.
• Another stand-out performer this season is Juan Bautista Baronio. He slotted two penalties after the try. With three further penalties in the second-half and four conversions he scored 23 points.
• Franco Rossetto scored Los Dogos’ only first half try.
• Penalties to Baronio and second-half tries to Lautaro Cipriani, Juan Lovell and Genaro Fissore put Los Dogos in total control.
• Two yellow cards to Tarucas’ forwards made it harder for the rookies. In addition, Aitor Bildosola, Valentín Cabral, and Genaro Fissore all carried well for Los Dogos.
• Despite their discipline problems, Los Tucumanos were able to fight back. Thiago Sbrocco scored early in the half while Juan Manuel Vivas and Ignacio Cerrutti also both scored.
• Los Dogos claimed a bonus point win for the maximum five competition points on the line.
• Los Tarucas came away with one competition point. The team is now level with Selknam in 5th spot.
• Los Dogos move level with Los Pampas at the top of the table. Los Pampas host Selknam on Monday.

TARUCAS (29)
TRY – S Benitez Cruz (7′); T Sbrocco (48′); JM Vivas (67′); I Cerrutti (80′)
CON – N Roger (8′, 68); I Cerrutti (80′)
PEN – N Roger (2′)
YC – B Garrido (53′); T Sbrocco (62′)

DOGOS (43)
TRY – F Rossetto (25′); L Cipriani (45′); J Lovell (59′); G Fissore (62′)
CON – JB Baronio (25′, 45′, 60′, 63′)
PEN – JB Baronio (12′, 19′, 42′, 51′, 53′)

1 Julián Martín, 2 Juan Manuel Vivas, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Mariano Perondi, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Simón Benítez Cruz, 10 Nicolás Roger, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Mariano García Ascarate, 13 Tomás Medina (capt.), 14 Mateo Pasquini, 15 Ignacio Cerrutti

Replacements: 16 Diego Fortuny, 17 Benjamín Garrido, 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Joaquín Aguilar, 20 Santiago Aguilar, 21 Bruno Gómez Urrutia, 22 Estanislao Pregot, 23 Stefano Ferro

DOGOS
1 Boris Wenger, 2 Lionel Oviedo, 3 Pedro Delgado, 4 Ignacio José Gandini (capt.), 5 Federico Albrisi, 6 Aitor Bildosola, 7 Valentín Cabral, 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Juan Lovell, 10 Juan Bautista Baronio, 11 Lautaro Cipriani, 12 Faustino Sánchez Valarolo, 13 Leonardo Gea Salim, 14 Franco Rossetto, 15 Mateo Sánchez

Replacements: 16 Conrado Iglesias, 17 Nicolás Revol Pitt, 18 Octavio Fillippa, 19 Felipe Villagrán, 20 Juan Cruz Caballero, 21 Fabricio Griffo, 22 Julián Hernández, 23 Ernesto Giudice

Referee: Tomás Bertazza (AR)
Assistants: Juan Pablo Chumbita (AR); Pedro López Vildoza (AR)
TMO: Álvaro del Barco (AR)

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