QF3: Ireland v Argentina, 18 October

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IRELAND v ARGENTINA

18 October 2015
KO: 13:00 BST (UTC+01)
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

Live on [tbc]

Ref: Jerome Garcès (France)
ARs: Romain Poite (France)and Chris Pollock (NZ)
TMO: George Ayoub (Australia)

A. Head to Head

15 Played 15
10 Won 5
0 Drawn 0
5 Lost 15
331 Points 283

B. Recent Form

14 June 2014
Estadio Monumental José Fierro, Tucumán
17 – 23 to Ireland

7 June 2014
Estadio Centenario, Resistencia
17 – 29 to Ireland

24 November 2012
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
46 – 24 to Ireland

28 November 2010
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
29 – 9 to Ireland

22 November 2008
Croke Park, Dublin
17 – 3 to Ireland

30 September 2007
Parc des Princes, Paris, France
30 – 15 to Argentina

2 June 2007
Estadio José Amalfitani, Buenos Aires
16 – 0 to Argentina

C. TEAMS:

IRELAND


15. Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster)
14. Tommy Bowe (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster)
13. Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster)
12. Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Connacht)
11. Dave Kearney (Lansdowne/Leinster)
10. Johnny Sexton (St Mary's College/Leinster)
9. Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster)
1. Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)
2. Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster)
3. Mike Ross (Clontarf/Leinster)
4. Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster)
5. Iain Henderson (Ballynahinch/Ulster)
6. Jordi Murphy (Lansdowne/Leinster)
7. Chris Henry (Malone/Ulster)
8. Jamie Heaslip (Dublin University/Leinster) captain

Replacements;
16. Richardt Strauss (Old Wesley/Leinster)
17. Jack McGrath (St Mary's College/Leinster)
18. Nathan White (Connacht)
19. Donnacha Ryan (Shannon/Munster)
20. Rhys Ruddock (St Mary's College/Leinster)
21. Eoin Reddan (Old Crescent/Leinster)
22. Ian Madigan (Blackrock/Leinster)
23. Luke Fitzgerald (Blackrock/Leinster)

ARGENTINA


15. Joaquin Tuculet
14. Santiago Cordero
13. Matías Moroni
12. Juan Martín Hernández
11. Juan Imhoff
10. Nicolás Sánchez
9. Martín Landajo
1. Marcos Ayerza
2. Agustín Creevy (c)
3. Ramiro Herrera
4. Guido Petti
5. Tomás Lavanini
6. Pablo Matera
7. Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe
8. Leonardo Senatore

Replacements:
16. Julián Montoya
17. Lucas Noguera
18. Juan Pablo Orlandi
19. Matías Alemanno
20. Facundo Isa
21. Tomás Cubelli
22. Jerónimo De La Fuente
23. Lucas González Amorosino

Oxygen clearly not arriving at Herrera head. He should be subbed quickly.

Rory Best such a threat over the ball.

If Argentina don't win they only have themselves to blame, terrible discipline! Great game.

Cant see Ireland losing now. A bit of patience is all is needed and tries will come.

What a D brain

Argentina have decided they don't want to win the game.

Argentina playing horrifically idiotic rugby

The good and the bad of Argentinian rugby has probably never been more clearly on display. Fast, dynamic, powerful and completely brain dead.

Another great steal! This is too much and there's still 20 minutes left.

Lucky why did he not kick. One mistake here could end it

Good football skills with the dive

Still cant see Ireland winning this but they have shown some heart, really stupid from Toner there.

What's toner supposed to do?

LeinsterFan4life wrote:What's toner supposed to do?

Cut his legs

Ireland aren't going to run one in from our own half. We need to kick to retrieve it.

When Ireland have the ball it's like watching a team attack in slow motion.

This getting poor Ireland lacking a cutting edge as the game is going on.

did he get it down cleanly?

Tackle around the neck.

That's the game.

What a finish

Looks OK.

Thought they were crazy for not asking for the penalty from the scrum. As usual I was completely wrong.

That's a try.

Still don't understand why Argentina still had advantage...

Ridiculous finish

Great game and fully deserved to Argentina. Irelamd's attsck is embarrasing. Almost like warching Leinster under MOC.

No coming back from here.

Three tries that expose us in the wide channels. One achilles heel, ruthlessly exploited.

Damn I guess I was wrong. All started with a bad knock on from Murray

Dave Kearney's wing again. He may kiss his Irish jersey goodbye.

His leg hit the player in touch

17 points at the end just too much a head start to give away at the beginning.

Not going to blame Garces but Argentina really should be a man down.

For me, the big frustration is that Herrera should have had a second yellow card. That would have changed the game for sure.

glamorganalun wrote:His leg hit the player in touch

And?

JmD wrote:Dave Kearney's wing again. He may kiss his Irish jersey goodbye.

Is it really his fault though?

Dave Kearney and Ian Maddigan have been woefull!

Hair palm off.

And what a try that was.

Awful.

Well that's game over. Gutted

Done and dusted, Ireland out

Argentina have totally deserved this win though. Outplayed and outthought Ireland all over the park.

Game set and match well done Argentina, hard luck Ireland the 6N not doing well

And another try on that wing. We have been well and truly exposed. Earls and Kearney just not good enough at this level. Ireland need to go back to the drawing board when the 6N comes around.

So bloody gutted......now can we have our unused players back to Ulster please and give them a bit of gametime

This is miles better than their 37-25 win over SA in Durban this year.

Argentina Scotland is going to be a cracking semi final

That just about sums up your contribution to this game, Earls.