{"id":238877,"date":"2025-07-05T01:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238877\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T01:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:34:13","slug":"argentina-second-half-magic-stuns-spain-at-u20-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238877\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina Second-Half Magic Stuns Spain at u20 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second-half magic from Argentina saw the South Americans completing a miraculous and stunning win over Spain at the World Rugby u20 Championship. Played in Rovigo, Italy on Friday, Los Pumas came back from a 30-7 deficit at half-time to defeat Spain 33-30.<\/p>\n

Beltr\u00e1n Ortega opened the scoring. The Spanish fullback finished off a break from fly half Lucien Richardis which also saw winger Pelayo Serrano involved. The conversion was off target though Spain added further points before Argentina scored any. Two penalties made it 11-0 early in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

Los Pumitas\u2019 first score would be their only points of the first half. In a sign of what was to come in the second-half, the South Americans charged forward with a rolling-maul. Spain were guilty of collapsing and Argentina came away with a penalty try.<\/p>\n

The 11-7 scoreline did not last; instead, Spain scored three rapid-fire tries. This was so despite Argentina playing with 15 players and Spain with 14. Center Oriol Marsinyac Garc\u00eda went over from close-range for Spain\u2019s second try of the match.<\/p>\n

Argentina\u2019s problems increased with Pedro Coll yellow carded. It was followed by a brilliant try from nothing scored by fly half Luciano Richardis. He picked up a loose lineout throw and kicked over, regathered and scored. Argentina\u2019s fullback, Pascall Senillosa, was guilty of being out of position.<\/p>\n

Poor defense also contributed to the next try. Spain\u2019s rampaging performance continued with Oriol Marsinyac Garc\u00eda closing through for his second try; Timoteo Silva fell off a tackle. Marsinyac\u2019s second try was converted and Spain were 30-7 up.<\/p>\n

A fired-up Argentina came out hungry in the second-half. Coach Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez Miranda replaced the entire front-row and they delivered. Replacement hooker Jer\u00f3nimo Ota\u00f1o was particularly impressive. He scored from a fifteen meter rolling-maul.<\/p>\n

Argentina were in again four minutes later. The forwards again had the team threatening deep inside Spain\u2019s 22. The Spanish were unable to retreat fast enough which saw Argentina attacking left and Pedro Coll finding his way over.<\/p>\n

Los Pumitas had fought back to 30-19. They were now in control of play and their sustained pressure saw Ota\u00f1o over for a second try. The replacement hooker scored from a five meter lineout to maul move. Senillosa converted from a very unfavorable angle. It was 30-26 with a quarter of the match remaining.<\/p>\n

The La Rochelle bound Gael Galv\u00e1n<\/a> put Argentina in front. He scored following an overthrown defensive Spanish lineout. Santiago Neyra won the ball before the forwards arrived in support. Galv\u00e1n then barged over to underline why the Top 14 club signed him. The try was converted for a 33-30 lead in tone final score of the contest.<\/p>\n

\"\"Foto Cr\u00e9dito: Prensa UAR<\/p>\n

The match was the second for both Argentina and Spain at the 2025 World Rugby u20 Championship. Argentina defeated Wales in their opening match<\/a> while Spain had their moments in defeat against France. Wales also lost to France on Friday.<\/p>\n

The remaining fixtures in the pool phase will be played on Wednesday, July 09. Argentina face France and Spain take-on Wales. A win for Los Pumitas will mean they qualify for the Semi Finals. The two other pool see split results with New Zealand and South Africa unbeaten.<\/p>\n

As it stands, both Argentina and France are likely to advance as the top second-placed team from the pools will join there three winners in the Semi Finals. Argentina, France, New Zealand and South Africa all have 10 points after two rounds. Ireland have 6 and England have 5.<\/p>\n

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SPAIN u20 (30)<\/strong>
TRY \u2013 B Ortega Garc\u00eda (4\u2032), O Marsinyac Garcia 2 (27\u2032, 38\u2032), L Richardis (35\u2032)
CON \u2013 N Infer 2 (27\u2032, 39\u2032)
PEN \u2013 N Infer 2 (20\u2032, 22\u2032)
YC \u2013 M L\u00f3pez (24\u2032)<\/p>\n

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ARGENTINA u20 (33)
<\/strong>TRY \u2013 Penalty Try (24\u2032), J Ota\u00f1o 2 (50\u2032, 59\u2032), P Coll (55\u2032), G Galvan (65\u2032)
CON \u2013 No Kick (24\u2032) P Senillosa 3 (56\u2032, 60\u2032, 66\u2032)
YC \u2013 P Coll (33\u2032)<\/p>\n

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WALES u20<\/strong>
1 Alberto G\u00f3mez, 2 Pau Massoni, 3 Hugo Gonz\u00e1lez, 4 V\u00edctor Ofojetu, 5 Liam McNamee, 6 Gael Almorin, 7 Unax Salvador, 8 Marcos L\u00f3pez, 9. Nico Infer, 10 Lucien Richardis, 11 Jorge Garreta, 12 Hugo Pichardie, 13 Oriol Marsinyac Garc\u00eda, 14 Pelayo Serrano, 15 Beltr\u00e1n Ortega<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Marcos L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez Adrada, 17 Juan Barcenilla, 18 Guido Reyes, 19 Guardin Gonz\u00e1lez Ciscar, 20 Manex Pujana Lendinez, 21 Nicol\u00e1s Gali, 22 Gonzalo Otamendi, 23 Telmo Fischer Obieta<\/p>\n

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ARGENTINA u20
<\/strong>1 Juan Ignacio Rodr\u00edguez, 2 Tadeo Ledesma Arocena, 3 Tom\u00e1s Rapetti, 4 Tom\u00e1s Duclos, 5 \u00c1lvaro Garc\u00eda Iandolino, 6 Tom\u00e1s Dande, 7 Santiago Neyra, 8 Agust\u00edn Garc\u00eda Campos, 9 F\u00e9lix Corleto, 10 Rafael Benedit, 11 Aquiles Vieyra, 12 Felipe Ledesma (capt.), 13 Pedro Coll, 14 Timoteo Silva, 15 Pascal Senillosa<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Jer\u00f3nimo Ota\u00f1o, 17 Diego Correa, 18 Gael Galv\u00e1n, 19 Valentino Freiria, 20 Pampa Storey, 21 Fabricio Griffo, 22 Ram\u00f3n Fern\u00e1ndez Miranda, 23 Bautista Lescano<\/p>\n

Referee: Peter Martin (Ireland)
Assistant Referees: Katsuki Furuse (Japan); Riccardo Bonato (Italy)
TMO: Graham Cooper (Australia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second-half magic from Argentina saw the South Americans completing a miraculous and stunning win over Spain at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-238877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}