Daniel Hourcade has made three changes to the Argentina team to play England this weekend.
Facundo Isa is dropped to the bench, whilst Nicolas Sanchez drops out of the squad altogether – Juan Martín Hernández starts at fly-half.
Argentina:
15 Joaquín Tuculet
14 Matías Orlando
13 Matías Moroni
12 Santiago González Iglesias
11 Santiago Cordero
10 Juan Martín Hernández
9 Tomás Cubelli
8 Leonardo Senatore
7 Javier Ortega Desio
6 Pablo Matera
5 Matías Alemanno
4 Guido Petti
3 Ramiro Herrera
2 Agustín Creevy (c)
1 Lucas Noguera
Replacements: 16 Julián Montoya, 17 Santiago García Botta, 18 Enrique Pieretto, 19 Facundo Isa, 20 Tomas Lezana, 21 Tomás Cubelli, 22 Jerónimo De la Fuente, 23 Juan Pablo Estelles
How do you see the game going?
I actually think Hernandez has been more influential at 12 and I think he may be easier to target and contain at 10. Expect Lawes to be smashing him at every opportunity.
I think ‘smashing’ the opposing no. 10 is pretty cowardly and retrograde in the long term. If the only way you can win is taking out the opposition’s best players, it doesn’t say much for you.
Seriously? I wouldn’t have thought that any team goes into a game thinking, the only way we’ll win this is to take out the numer 10, however, it’s the first job you learn as a flanker and disrupting the opposition attack is to try and get a big tackle in on the opposition 10 early in the game, I had that in juniors 25 year’s ago!
Injuring players shouldn’t be the aim, but if you can put a couple of big hits in on the 10 early then it affects their game going forwards as they are always looking out for defenders making them slower or less accurate when distributing the ball
Standard tactics for any professional side in the world