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.

Burgess was the world class flanker who got away.

No 7&1/2 wrote:Burgess was the world class flanker who got away.

By wasting his time at 12.

Yup. Shame.

scottrf in this tour, there is no one fit or available to replace Hartley, in the future, I want to see more opportunities for other hookers.

Sgt Pooly hardly wide of the mark when Hartley saved one of his best performances for an inconsequential league game that his team still lost. Hartley is limited in the sense that he offers very little outside the set piece and if that goes to pieces like the lineout did vs Argentina he offers nothing. That's from a playing perspective.

As a captain his stock has gone down too - leadership being poor vs Italy,Ireland and France. Taken off just after half time vs Wales. Only good game in 6 nations vs Scotland.

englandglory4ever Solomona was on the bench, Burgess was fast tracked into the England starting line up.