This early Saturday morning game sees the Jaguares travelling to Johannesburg to play the Lions. Join The Roar from 3am (AEST) for all the live action as we cover this Round 9 match from South Africa.
The Lions bring excellent form into today’s clash, an impressive away win over the Stormers in Newlands setting themselves up as top dog within their own conference while the Jaguares stumbled somewhat last weekend in a disappointing display against the Bulls in Pretoria.
The Jaguares need to win today if they have any aspirations of winning their conference and pegging back the lead the Lions have now built within their group but it will take a dramatic form reversal from the Argentinian side to upset the inform Lions in Johannesburg.
A major challenge for the Jaguares today will be countering the Lions impressive set piece, both their scrum and lineout have been operating exceptionally this season and the Jaguares will need to ensure they can gain parity in these areas otherwise it will be a long night indeed.
Achieve this however and they Jaguares can certainly create plenty of problems for the Lions’ defence and an enthralling contest should ensue.
Some key match-ups to look out for will be at first five where two internationals in Elton Jantjies and Nicholas Sanchez line up against each other and their respective influence on today’s match will be a determining factor in the match result while the head to head at centre between Lionel Mapoe and Matais Orlando will be worth keeping an eye on as the match progresses.
Prediction
The Lions recent form has been far too good to ignore, add in they are at home and after losing the first match between these two sides in Argentina I can only see one result in this return fixture.
Lions by 20.
Join us here on The Roar for kick off at 3am AEST, pop the jug on and don’t forget to leave your thoughts on the match below.
Nobrain
Roar Guru
You never loose!!!!
Machooka
Roar Guru
Yep Tragic... and good to see our 'marathon man' had some company eh! Gotta say though it read like a three-way call. Interesting. Entertaining. A little crazy. :)
Tutema
Guest
I was partially right, Jags didn't win by one point but WON one point hahhahahahahhhahahahahaha
Rugby Tragic
Roar Rookie
*laughing*... didn't watch the game but reading Digger's blog and the comments was fun in itself! ... particularly after the Waratahs effort Fri night ..
Lions struggled in this match, warren whiteley weren't very happy with this performance
Nobrain
Roar Guru
Good game, Lions have not been tested like this in their home turf. I welcome the def bonus point! I think it will be important at the end.
Digby
Roar Guru
Cheers mate
RobC
Roar Guru
Thanks DC Good call, as usual man
RobC
Roar Guru
Lions have 8 lives left
Digby
Roar Guru
THE LIONS HAVE DEFEATED THE JAGUARES BY 24 POINTS TO 21 IN JOHANNESBURG
Digby
Roar Guru
83' Jags lineout from the penalty, 35 out, won, but messy, Jags have 35 to go, Baez a carry, Lions under him, its a maul, CANT GET IT OUT, TURNOVER, LIONS SCRUM, AND THAT WILL BE FULLTIME!! LIONS 24 JAGUARES 21
Digby
Roar Guru
80' Siren sounds, Jags scrum, 10 from their line, won, they shift, Orlando carries to his 22 line, Jags looking to go 80, Petti again, inside ball, Jags, Fuenta through but ankle tapped, Jags, up to halfway, pushed back to their 10, turnover, Lions now, Penalty Jags! Not releasing! Bad penalty there! LIONS 24 JAGUARES 21
RobC
Roar Guru
Mapoe passing like Lionel Richie
Digby
Roar Guru
79' Lions lineout from the penalty, 20 out, won, they maul, down now, Coetzee shapes to drop, steps and weaves instead, inside the 22, short side, Mapoe, offloads forward! LIONS 24 JAGUARES 21
RobC
Roar Guru
Elton is beltin! HazaaaàwàaaaaaaaàtaaăāÆ
Digby
Roar Guru
78' Penalty Lions from the kick off! Playing the man in the air contesting the kick off! Jags self destructing in 5, 4, 3................. LIONS 24 JAGUARES 21
RobC
Roar Guru
The big banana is getting his leg polished
Digby
Roar Guru
Jantjies, lines up, shakes, crouches, clasps hands, moves in, strikes...............ITS GOOD!! LIONS HIT THE FRONT!! LIONS 24 JAGUARES 21
Digby
Roar Guru
Lions will take the shot, just over 35 in front!! LIONS 21 JAGUARES 21
RobC
Roar Guru
Lions defending like Lions. For a change