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Match Complete
Chiefs
16
| J. D. Bonilla |  | 59 | ||
| J. D. Bonilla | | 54 | ||
| J. D. Bonilla |  | 52 | ||
| M. Moroni |  | 51 | ||
| 47 | | M. McKenzie | ||
| 43 | | J. Debreczeni | ||
| 35 | | J. Debreczeni | ||
| 27 | | J. Debreczeni | ||
| 26 | | L. Boshier | ||
| J. D. Bonilla | | 21 | ||
| P. Matera | | 0 |
| 2 | Tries | 1 | ||
| 1 | Conversions | 1 | ||
| 3 | Penalty Goals | 3 | ||
| 0 | Field Goals | 0 |
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The Jaguares welcome the Chiefs to Buenos Aires in the second quarter final of this year’s Super Rugby competition.
Both sides are taking great recent form into this all or nothing match and while the Jaguares are the favourites in many people’s eyes, this game is going to be a very close affair.
Join The Roar for live scores and a blog of this exciting match starting from 8:05am AEST on Saturday.
After 18 rounds of the regular season we’ve got down to the real business and this game should be the clash of the round. For the Jaguares they really couldn’t be in a better position.
They’re the in-form team of the competition, they’ve won their conference and they have the home advantage. What’s more they were able to take advantage of playing the Sunwolves in Round 18 and rested lots of their top talent.
That talent will all come flooding back into the Jaguares starting line up and coach Gonzalo Quesada must be excited about being able to include names like Tomas Lavanini, Mayco Vivas, Agustin Creevy, Santiago Medrano, Pablo Matera, Marcos Kremer and Javier Ortega Desio to the pack.
That is an incredible amount of experience there alone and the battle up front is going to be so important.
In the backs too, the Jaguares are recalling some of their best with Tomas Cubeli and Joaquin Diaz Bonilla lining up in the halves together and Matias Moroni and Emiliano Boffeli in the back three.
But don’t discount the Chiefs. After a terrible start and injuries to key players their season was being spoken about as being dead and buried.
Yet they’ve found a way to come together as a team and learned how to win with the talent that they have. This has led to them losing only three matches from the past 11 and scoring an absolute ton of points in the past few weeks.
In the most recent test of their strength they went to Melbourne in Round 18 knowing that only a big win would see them make the finals.
They destroyed the home side who were also fighting for knock out rugby and should be going into this match against the Jaguares with plenty of confidence.
A lot of that confidence is coming from the return of club hero Sam Cane who has really helped his team take a step up since he returned from long term injury a few rounds ago.
Equally they will be very happy that there are almost zero changes to their starting line up. The only change coach Colin Cooper has made is to bring in Tumua Manu to play in the centres.
Of course overall season record matters but almost more important is momentum going into the Finals and both these teams are in great form.
They’ve played three times so far in Super Rugby and after 240 minutes of rugby there is only three points separating them.
Prediction
This one is very hard to call. You naturally want to go for the Jags but just as you go to write that down you have this nagging feeling that the Chiefs are going to do something special in Argentina.
Time to toss a coin maybe? In the end the Jaguares are at home and it feels like they have the better pack which will give them the ability to build control and a strong platform for their backs.
Jaguares by 5.
Join The Roar for live scores and a blog of this exciting match starting from 8:05am AEST on Saturday.
Where: Estadio José Amalfitani, Buenos Aires
Date: Saturday 22nd June 2019
When: Kick off 08:05 AEDT
TV: Foxsports
Betting: Jaguares $1.66, Chiefs $2.20
Jaguares
15 Emiliano Boffelli
14 Sebastian Cancelliere
13 Matias Orlando
12 Jeronimo de la Fuente (c)
11 Matias Moroni
10 Joaquin Diaz Bonilla
9 Tomas Cubelli
8 Javier Ortega Desio
7 Marcos Kremer
6 Pablo Matera
5 Tomas Lavanini
4 Guido Petti
3 Santiago Medrano
2 Agustin Creevy
1 Mayco Vivas
Replacements:
16 Julian Montoya
17 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro
18 Enrique Pieretto
19 Tomas Lezana
20 Francisco Gorrissen
21 Felipe Ezcurra
22 Domingo Miotti
23 Santiago Carreras
Chiefs
15. Solomon Alaimalo
14. Shaun Stevenson
13. Tumua Manu
12. Anton Lienert-Brown
11. Sean Wainui
10. Jack Debreczeni
9. Brad Weber
8. Pita Gus Sowakula
7. Sam Cane (c)
6. Lachlan Boshier
5. Tyler Ardron
4. Brodie Retallick
3. Angus Ta’avao
2. Nathan Harris
1. Atu Moli
Replacements
16. Samisoni Taukei’aho
17. Aidan Ross
18. Nepo Laulala
19. Jesse Parete
20. Mitchell Jacobson
21. Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi
22. Marty McKenzie
23. Alex Nankivell/Ataata Moeakiola
Referee: Glen Jackson
Assistant Referee: Nick Briant, Federico Anselmi
TMO: Santiago Borsani
2019 Form (last 5 games)
Jaguares – WWWWW
Chiefs – WLWWW
Played 3
Jaguares won 1
Chiefs won 2
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