{"id":559787,"date":"2025-11-09T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/559787\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T17:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T17:30:29","slug":"argentina-overpower-tandys-wales-with-record-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/559787\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina overpower Tandy&#8217;s Wales with record win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Autumn Nations Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wales (14) 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tries:<\/strong> T Williams, Lake, Morgan, Murray <strong>Cons: <\/strong>Edwards 3, Evans<\/p>\n<p><strong>Argentina (31) 52<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tries: <\/strong>Delgado, Prisciantelli 2, Benitez Cruz, M Carreras, Delguy, Grondona, <strong>Cons<\/strong>: S Carreras 7 <strong>Pen: <\/strong>Carreras<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Wales head coach Steve Tandy suffered an opening defeat in his first game as Argentina powered to a record win in a 11-try thriller at Principality Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was a 10th successive home defeat for Wales, who also lost inspirational captain Jac Morgan to a serious looking shoulder or arm injury.<\/p>\n<p>Flanker Morgan suffered the problem in the act of scoring one of Wales&#8217; four tries, while number eight Aaron Wainwright was also forced off.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina crossed for seven tries with fly-half Geronimo Prisciantelli&#8217;s double supplemented by scores from prop Pedro Delgado, scrum-half Simon Benitez Cruz, wings Mateo Carreras and Bautista Delguy and replacement Santiago Grondona, while full-back Santiago Carreras kicked 17 points.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Wales responded with tries from scrum-half Tomos Williams, hooker Dewi Lake Morgan and full-back Blair Murray.<\/p>\n<p>Wales centre Ben Thomas was shown a costly a first-half yellow card for kicking out at Argentina captain Pablo Matera and can count himself lucky not to have been shown red for the reckless act.<\/p>\n<p>The second half also saw the international rugby return of Wales wing Louis Rees-Zammit after a two-year absence.<\/p>\n<p>In front of a crowd of 50,185, Argentina&#8217;s victory should be no surprise after they arrived in Cardiff as firm favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Los Pumas were ranked sixth in the world prior to the game, six places higher than Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina enjoyed some outstanding results in the Rugby Championship, including historic victories over Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Felipe Contepomi&#8217;s battle-hardened matchday squad also had 944 caps between them &#8211; 400 more than Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The experience and class told as Argentina celebrated the most points ever scored against Wales and a record margin of victory.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p>Tandy given international education<\/p>\n<p>It is now 27 months or 827 days since Wales won an international game in Cardiff, a triumph against England in a World Cup warm-up match in August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Wales had ended an abysmal record run of 18 straight defeats with victory in their last summer Test in Japan, so Tandy was coming in with a fresh slate.<\/p>\n<p>He became the first Welshman to become the men&#8217;s permanent head coach since Gareth Jenkins left office in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Tandy has risen from the small village of Tonmawr with more than 300 of the village side&#8217;s supporters travelling to Cardiff to cheer on one of its favourite sons.<\/p>\n<p>Tandy left his previous role as Scotland defence coach for this challenge and has had to cope with the latest off-the-field turmoil with the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) announcing they were planning to cut a Welsh professional side, leaving players worried about their job security.<\/p>\n<p>If Tandy did not know the magnitude of the challenge he has taken on before this first game, he certainly will now.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Fast start for Pumas<\/p>\n<p>Tandy made his mark by bringing back Saracens prop Rhys Carre into the starting side.<\/p>\n<p>British and Irish Lions duo Morgan and scrum-half Williams returned, while centre Max Llewellyn and locks Adam Beard and Dafydd Jenkins were recalled after missing Wales&#8217; summer tour.<\/p>\n<p>There was a frantic start, but a careless offside penalty conceded by Jenkins allowed Argentina the platform for Delgado to open the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors followed up with an incisive counter-attacking try. Wales wing Tom Rogers tapped a high ball back to Pumas flanker Juan Martin Gonzalez who fed Mateo Carreras. The wing sprinted away before his clever chip kick was dived on by Prisciantelli.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Wales responded with a fine flowing move as Rogers made a searing midfield break before linking up with captain Morgan, who produced a superb offload to scrum-half Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Wales&#8217; tails were up and they levelled the scores when hooker Lake powered over.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More to follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Line-ups<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wale<\/strong>s: Murray; Rogers, Llewellyn, B Thomas, Adams; Edwards, T Williams; Carre, Lake, Assiratti, D Jenkins, Beard, Mann, Morgan (capt), Wainwright.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Belcher, Smith, Griffin, F Thomas, Cracknell, Hardy, J Evans, Rees-Zammit.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sin-bin: <\/strong>Thomas (27)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Argentina<\/strong>: S Carreras; Delguy, Piccardo, Chocobares, M Carreras; Prisciantelli, Benitez Cruz; Vivas, Montoya (capt), Delgado, Petti, Kremer, Matera, JM Gonzalez, Oviedo.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Ruiz, Gallo, Rapetti, Alemanno, Grondona, Moyano, Mallia, Isgro.<\/p>\n<p>Match officials<\/p>\n<p><strong>Referee<\/strong>: Ben O&#8217;Keeffe (New Zealand)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant referees<\/strong>: Karl Dickson (England), Anthony Woodthorpe (England)<\/p>\n<p><strong>TMO: <\/strong>Quinton Immelman (South Africa)<\/p>\n<p><strong>FPRO:<\/strong> Eric Gauzins (France).<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762709429_169_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Autumn Nations Series Wales (14) 28 Tries: T Williams, Lake, Morgan, Murray Cons: Edwards 3, Evans Argentina (31)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[10105,178573,178572,748,170309,35461,178574,178570,178575,4884,178576,23126,178577,178569,81402,178568,124356,178567,23125,178571,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-559787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-ben-thomas","10":"tag-benitez-cruz","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-captain-morgan","13":"tag-dafydd-jenkins","14":"tag-delguy","15":"tag-flanker-morgan","16":"tag-gareth-jenkins","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-grondona","19":"tag-jac-morgan","20":"tag-los-pumas","21":"tag-m-carreras","22":"tag-pablo-matera","23":"tag-pedro-delgado","24":"tag-rhys-carre","25":"tag-s-carreras","26":"tag-steve-tandy","27":"tag-t-williams","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115520932312483677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559787","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=559787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}