{"id":20663,"date":"2025-09-26T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=20663"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:04:03","slug":"argentina-choose-carreras-over-albornoz-at-fly-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=20663","title":{"rendered":"Argentina choose Carreras over Albornoz at fly-half"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Argentina have retained Santiago Carreras at fly-half for a Rugby Championship penultimate round match against title-holders South Africa in Durban on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Gloucester playmaker was the Pumas&#8217; second choice for the key role behind Italy-based Tomas Albornoz when the southern hemisphere tournament kicked off in August.<\/p>\n<p>But Benetton fly-half Albornoz dislocated a finger early in a historic second-round triumph over New Zealand in Buenos Aires, and Carreras has starred since. Albornoz is on the bench for the Boks Test.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time Argentina beat nine-time Championship winners New Zealand in 16 attempts in the South American nation.<\/p>\n<p>Carreras is the leading points scorer in the Championship this season with 47, including 23 in a win over Australia this month in Sydney, where he had a perfect eight-from-eight goal-kicking record.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Felipe Contepomi has made three personnel changes to the team that started the victory over Australia.<\/p>\n<p>All the alterations involve forwards with locks Lucas Paulos and Franco Molina and flanker Pablo Matera replacing Guido Petti, Pedro Rubiolo and Juan Martin Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>The dropped trio are among the replacements in a six forwards-two backs split.<\/p>\n<p>Australia, who play New Zealand in Auckland on Saturday, top the table with 11 points after four rounds. South Africa and New Zealand have 10 each and Argentina nine.<\/p>\n<p>Team (15-1)<\/p>\n<p>Juan Cruz Mallia; Rodrigo Isgro, Lucio Cinti, Santiago Chocobares, Mateo Carreras; Santiago Carreras, Gonzalo Garcia; Joaqu\u00edn Oviedo, Marcos Kremer, Pablo Matera; Lucas Paulos, Franco Molina; Joel Sclavi, Julian Montoya (capt), Mayco Vivas<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Ignacio Ruiz, Boris Wenger, Francisco Coria Marchetti, Guido Petti, Pedro Rubiolo, Juan Martin Gonzalez, Simon Benitez Cruz, Tomas Albornoz<\/p>\n<p>Coach: Felipe Contepomi (ARG)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina have retained Santiago Carreras at fly-half for a Rugby Championship penultimate round match against title-holders South Africa in Durban on Saturday. The 25-year-old Gloucester playmaker was the Pumas&#8217; second choice for the key role behind Italy-based Tomas Albornoz when the southern hemisphere tournament kicked off in August. But Benetton fly-half Albornoz dislocated a finger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}