Argentina vs England, 1st Test

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Match Details

Venue: Estadio del Bicentenario, San Juan
Date: Saturday 10th June
Time: 20:15 BST
TV: BBC2



Officials

Referee - Nigel Owens (Wales)
Ass 1 - John Lacey (Ireland)
Ass 2 - Egon Seconds (SA)
TMO - Aaron Paterson (NZ)


Teams

Argentina - 15 Joaquin Tuculet, 14 Matias Moroni, 13 Matias Orlando, 12 Jeronimo de la Fuente, 11 Emiliano Boffelli, 10 Nicolas Sanchez, 9 Martin Landajo, 1 Lucas Noguera Paz, 2 Agustin Creevy (c), 3 Enrique Pieretto, 4 Matias Alemanno, 5 Tomas Lavanini, 6 Pablo Matera, 7 Javier Ortega Desio, 8 Juan Manuel Leguizamon.

Replacements: 16 Julian Montoya, 17 Santiago Garcia Botta, 18 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, 19 Guido Petti, 20 Leonardo Senatore, 21 Gonzalo Bertranou, 22 Juan Martin Hernandez, 23 Ramiro Moyano.



England - 15 Mike Brown, 14 Marland Yarde, 13 Henry Slade, 12 Alex Lozowski, 11 Jonny May, 10 George Ford, 9 Danny Care; 1 Ellis Genge, 2 Dylan Hartley (c), 3 Harry Williams, 4 Joe Launchbury, 5 Charlie Ewels, 6 Mark Wilson, 7 Tom Curry, 8 Nathan Hughes.

Replacements: 16 Jack Singleton, 17 Matt Mullan, 18 Will Collier, 19 Nick Isiekwe, 20 Don Armand, 21 Jack Maunder, 22 Piers Francis, 23 Denny Solomona.

Lol massive jinx

That's 6 from 7 now for Ford I think. Some difficult kicks in there too.

Mistake from Argentina on the restart gives England a decent position.

Argeniina being naive, they should stuff it up the jumper but they're trying to force the money shot. Never a good result.

It's just fun for the spectators Sgt...great to watch.

Has Brown ever passed?

Important turnover from Solomona.

Yeah this has been the match of the weekend.

entertaining game, this
South Africa v France was good earlier, too

Ah don't be silly Scott don't praise Solomona please.

Silly maul penalty to give away in a silly area to give it. There was no threat.

robbo277 wrote:That's 6 from 7 now for Ford I think. Some difficult kicks in there too.

Mistake from Argentina on the restart gives England a decent position.

He's made some great kicks and from distance. I think he looked a bit tired as he took the last one. Running 70 metres to score at that point in the game and it's understandable.

Oh another foreigner coming on for England

Great turnover Hughes, we needed that

Great game, some cracking plays..

Ah don't be silly Scott don't praise Solomona please.

I thought it was Hughes.

Mark Wilson you beauty!

Great turnover by Wilson that time! What a game though, still time for all 3 results!

robbo277 wrote:

Ah don't be silly Scott don't praise Solomona please.

I thought it was Hughes.

Yeah you're right, just saw a lot of strapping.

How many turnovers has Wilson got??? Impressive showing

Hartley is playing his last two games for England

Unsure why Sanchez took the DG there. Helps England out by keeping time on the clock.

Wasn't sanchez.

World class Solomona

Solomona!

Denny Solomona!!!

Denny

Boom!

English through and through...and I'll argue with anyone who says he's not!

2 assists for Francis already. Good signing Jim.

Great game, and what a win for this inexperienced England side. The 10/12/13 were brilliant.

What a finish, Wade who?

What a great game and a great win

My god what a game

I've never seen a debut like Solomona.. 3 awful missed tackles then does that with ball in hand

Curry, Genge, Wilson of the debut starters absolutely brilliant, Ford and Launchbury were excellent and really led the backs and pack respectively

How the feck does the Argentinian interviewer understand ford there ha ha ha

Wow what a game. Very promising for the youngsters.

Really really positive. You'll get that with young guys. Some great things some which simply show inexperience. Good showing and re bonus of a win. I'm rearing myself in regards to the lions and this but this is pretty much a scratch side and they should get better next week.

Bloody hell. Considering England are meant to be the best and world beaters at every sport going...they haven't half fluked it today with the football and now rugby

Fantastic! Great time to be an England fan What an incredible game

Steffan, don't forget England smashed the Aussies in the cricket too!

Collier made a big difference to the scrum when he came on. Solomona was all at sea but recovered well. Slade had some nice touches, as did Francis. Maunder looks like the right pick from the young scrum halves.

Curry not quite done yet, but will be good one day. Wilson did a good job and looks like he could be a useful addition to England's back row resources. Be interesting to see if Robshaw is fit and can control the game better next week.

Old Man Ford was excellent today

Steffan wrote:Bloody hell. Considering England are meant to be the best and world beaters at every sport going...they haven't half fluked it today with the football and now rugby

Haha suck it up.

Steffan wrote:Bloody hell. Considering England are meant to be the best and world beaters at every sport going...they haven't half fluked it today with the football and now rugby

This is an England side missing 30 players to injury and the Lions and featuring 11 debutants. They were playing a near full strength Argentina side away from home; any sort of win under those circumstances is a good win.

I think that May was bloody lucky that Owens was on the wrong side at that last ruck before Denny finally proved his worth. He could easily have been pinged for holding on.

Still -hell of a lot for Denny to do but he did it

Lot of good things - a few questionable things but what a game.

Classy

Ifs and buts about stuff, but in the end Eddie will be WAY happier than the argie coach.

Solomona needs to be parceled up and sent to NZ asap thanks

BamBam wrote:Classy

I've done better but it will do for now

Probably 2 less legs and less of a wooly coat than you're used to

Ah but Solomona is not feck in English arrrgghhhhh