In a very tough match played at the Héroes de Curupayty stadium, with a lot of heat, a lot of humidity and intense rain in the complement, Dogos XV lost their undefeated record by losing on their visit to Yacare XV. The Paraguayan franchise won 22-19, in a duel valid for date 10 of the Super Rugby Americas.
The match was very changeable, with a local team that was a little more solid against the Argentine team that was very intermittent. Dogos XV did not play well. He again suffered in the game with his hands and some distractions and mistakes for which he paid dearly. Every penalty he awarded was taken advantage of by Joaquín Lamas. The flyhalf of Yacare
For Dogos XV it was his first fall of the season. He remains at the top of the standings, now with 36 points. But his escort, Pampas, has a free date this day. On the next date, both Argentine franchises will compete in Córdoba, on the Tala RC field. The winner of that pivotal match will come out on top.
The match
The Córdoba-based franchise began dominating from the beginning. The pressure from their forwards was felt and generated several scrums in their favor. Yacare XV’s errors in the mobile formation ended with a penalty try for Dogos XV and a yellow for prop Ezequiel Reyes. Thus, the visit led 7-0 in the first eight minutes and with an extra man.
However, the Argentine team could not take advantage of that situation. The game became messy, but Yacare XV showed its personality and began to complicate matters. Finally, at 21, he paid in the same coin: a penalty try and a yellow card for captain Franco Molina. 7-7 and Dogos XV with one less for 10 minutes.
The Paraguayans took advantage of the opportunity and began to apply a lot of pressure. At 25, through a penalty from Joaquín Lamas, the homeowners took the lead 10-7.
At the end of the first half, Dogos XV prowled the goal line, but could not break the local resistance. He thus went into the break three points down.
THE COMPLEMENT
With a quick penalty, the Guarani escaped 13-7. However, Dogos XV went out to search. He stole a ball at the lineout and took advantage of Bartolini’s tremendous power to support the try. Hernández could not handle the conversion, but discounted the visit. 13-12, in 4 minutes.
But Yacare XV demonstrated its enormous effectiveness with the foot of Joaquín Lamas, who scored his third penalty in this match and the locals escaped again, now 16-12.
However, Julián Hernández made the best individual play of the night, breaking all rival resistance with pure breaking and speed to support his try at 10. With the flyhalf’s own conversion, Dogos XV went ahead 19-16.
Of course, mistakes are costly at this level. Penalty for Lamas and the player trained in the SIC continued relentlessly to make it 19-19, at 19 minutes.
With 10 minutes left, Gea Salim committed an intentional knock on. Penalty and yellow for the Dogos XV player, a team that was left with one less player until the end of the match. Lamas executed and scored his fifth penalty of the night to return Yacare XV to the lead 22-19.
Dogos XV tried until the end, but could not break the Guarani again. Yacare
Formations
Yacare XV: 1- Ezequiel Reyes, 2- Ignacio Palillo, 3- Estéfano Aranda; 4- Lucio Anconetani, 5- Mariano Garcete (c); 6- Juan Cruz Pérez, 7- Felipe Puertas, 8- Ariel Nuñez; 9- Juan Cruz Strada, 10- Joaquín Lamas; 11- Juan González, 12- Sebastián Urbieta, 13- Tomás Vanni, 14- Arturo López; 15- Thomas MacCall. Substitutes: 16- Lucas Otaño, 17- Camilo Blasco, 18- Luis Enrique Quinteros, 19- Juan José Heisecke Schauman, 20- Ramiro Parada, 21- Gonzalo Barreiro, 22- Juan Daniel Chilavert, 23- Joaquín Mussi
Doges XV: 1- Boris Wenger, 2- Tomás Bartolini, 3- Octavio Ignacio Filippa; 4- Federico Rolotti, 5- Franco Molina (c), 6- Aitor Bildosola, 7- Lorenzo Colidio, 8- Valentin Cabral; 9- Agustín Moyano, 10- Julián Hernández; 11- Nahuel Romero, 12- Leonardo Gea Salim, 13- Felipe Mallía, 14- Javier Nicolás Olguin; 15- Agustín de Vertíz. Substitutes: 16- Santos Juárez Strada, 17- Juan Aguirre, 18- Pedro Delgado, 19- Felipe Villagrán, 20- Facundo Cardozo, 21- Nicolás Viola, 22- Juan Bautista Baronio, 23- Agustín Segura.
The positions
- Doges XV36
- Pampas, 35
- Yacare XV, 24
- Selknam, 22
- Peñarol, 12
- American Raptors, 10
- Cobras, 8
