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.

Even ford is kicking well

Cracking play! Fantastic offloading

Don't know why Eddie picked that Yarde fella, he's shoite.

Scottrf wrote:National treasure scores!

Enjoying this half.

Ha ha ha ha not quite Deity?

Ozzy3213 wrote:Don't know why Eddie picked that Yarde fella, he's shoite.

You think there's a wing in the Prem that wouldn't have scored it though?

What the he'll was Williams doing there!! Get stuck in man!

Obviously Hartley was struggling to keep him up, someone should have got under that imo.

Scottrf wrote:

Ozzy3213 wrote:Don't know why Eddie picked that Yarde fella, he's shoite.

You think there's a wing in the Prem that wouldn't have scored it though?

Banahan......

Scottrf wrote:

Ozzy3213 wrote:Don't know why Eddie picked that Yarde fella, he's shoite.

You think there's a wing in the Prem that wouldn't have scored it though?

I'd have scored that!

Mark Wilson 3 turnovers! That's my boy.

Probably not difficult in such an open disjointed game as this mind.

Yarde playing well so far.

Wade should be on in place of yarde!

Top game of open if scrappish rugby - decent crowd too.

Naive from Curry, no need for that.

GeordieFalcon wrote:Wade should be on in place of yarde!

Quite right Geordie you sarcastic viking

Ha ha nowt sarcastic. Yarde is just not impressing and makes me nervy!

Jesus Williams just stood off for their try. What on earth was he doing!

Wow...Hartley rag dolled!

GeordieFalcon wrote:Wow...Hartley rag dolled!

Cracking hit. Yarde done okay since I insulted him.

Lovely Slade!

Awesome Slade that was class!

For all mike browns faults he was a gentleman there

Ford is nailing them!

Ford is kicking superb

I don't think Hartley will be starting Hooker in November

Oh great....Solomona.

That dummy and kick through by Slade was something special.

Great try... and oh Denny

Ah Tom. Learn from that!

Solomona got the wrong boots on? I'm guessing that's not how he wanted to start his international career.

For Gods sake Solomona you clown. Who said Wade couldn't tackle?

Oh dear Denny. Headless chicken mode.

Arg look good when they get going. They always have very skilful backs with good footwork.

Er alternatively splomona can't tackle and gell never be seen again...

GeordieFalcon wrote:For Gods sake Solomona you clown.  Who said Wade couldn't tackle?

Attempted tackles 3, completed tackles 0. That's not a good stat on your debut.

And I've had too much to drink with that spelling! Solomona will be good. Maybe jones W's right to start experience though.

Great try from Argentina

fair play, that was some try

Wow that was a scrum

Blitzed

Mullan will not have enjoyed that. Genge had been looking solid and as soon as he goes off for the more experienced Mullan the scrum goes into reverse.

Well it's good experience for these players. And it's not over yet...

Brown showing why he should have been a Lion

Brown and Hartley showing why they won't be starters come November

Ford is 100%?

Lovely try

Great counter attack.

Ford take a bow.

Good game to watch

Brown hasn't had his best game. Hasn't been solid under the high ball, hasn't made any breaks of note and one pass to May checked him in a good position.

Saying that, great stuff by Ford and Francis. The pace in this England backline can hurt anyone.

What a cracking game!