QF3: Ireland v Argentina, 18 October

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IRELAND v ARGENTINA

18 October 2015
KO: 13:00 BST (UTC+01)
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

Live on [tbc]

Ref: Jerome Garcès (France)
ARs: Romain Poite (France)and Chris Pollock (NZ)
TMO: George Ayoub (Australia)

A. Head to Head

15 Played 15
10 Won 5
0 Drawn 0
5 Lost 15
331 Points 283

B. Recent Form

14 June 2014
Estadio Monumental José Fierro, Tucumán
17 – 23 to Ireland

7 June 2014
Estadio Centenario, Resistencia
17 – 29 to Ireland

24 November 2012
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
46 – 24 to Ireland

28 November 2010
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
29 – 9 to Ireland

22 November 2008
Croke Park, Dublin
17 – 3 to Ireland

30 September 2007
Parc des Princes, Paris, France
30 – 15 to Argentina

2 June 2007
Estadio José Amalfitani, Buenos Aires
16 – 0 to Argentina

C. TEAMS:

IRELAND


15. Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster)
14. Tommy Bowe (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster)
13. Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster)
12. Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Connacht)
11. Dave Kearney (Lansdowne/Leinster)
10. Johnny Sexton (St Mary's College/Leinster)
9. Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster)
1. Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)
2. Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster)
3. Mike Ross (Clontarf/Leinster)
4. Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster)
5. Iain Henderson (Ballynahinch/Ulster)
6. Jordi Murphy (Lansdowne/Leinster)
7. Chris Henry (Malone/Ulster)
8. Jamie Heaslip (Dublin University/Leinster) captain

Replacements;
16. Richardt Strauss (Old Wesley/Leinster)
17. Jack McGrath (St Mary's College/Leinster)
18. Nathan White (Connacht)
19. Donnacha Ryan (Shannon/Munster)
20. Rhys Ruddock (St Mary's College/Leinster)
21. Eoin Reddan (Old Crescent/Leinster)
22. Ian Madigan (Blackrock/Leinster)
23. Luke Fitzgerald (Blackrock/Leinster)

ARGENTINA


15. Joaquin Tuculet
14. Santiago Cordero
13. Matías Moroni
12. Juan Martín Hernández
11. Juan Imhoff
10. Nicolás Sánchez
9. Martín Landajo
1. Marcos Ayerza
2. Agustín Creevy (c)
3. Ramiro Herrera
4. Guido Petti
5. Tomás Lavanini
6. Pablo Matera
7. Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe
8. Leonardo Senatore

Replacements:
16. Julián Montoya
17. Lucas Noguera
18. Juan Pablo Orlandi
19. Matías Alemanno
20. Facundo Isa
21. Tomás Cubelli
22. Jerónimo De La Fuente
23. Lucas González Amorosino

Well played Henderson there, good attacking scrum position.

Not reffing the scrum to Ireland s advantage

That ball has to go wide.

Ireland look so slow in attack.

glamorganalun wrote:Not reffing the scrum to Ireland s advantage

He's letting Ross get away with getting mullered and folding in at every scrum. Ross is going in and down to avoid going backwards. Ireland fortunate in that regard.

Just gotta get 3 points before half-time, make it a one score game and we're hanging in there.

I suppose this is one way to lose the 'favourite' tags the Irish hate so much. Have a poor start but stay within touch. Come out in the second half as underdogs and rip into them. Cunning.

What an absolutely poor first half from Ireland. Schmidt has a lot of work to do here. Dave Kearney and Henry have not had very good games so far.

This Argentina side are extremely dangerous.

glamorganalun wrote:Not reffing the scrum to Ireland s advantage

The Irish scrum has no scrum advantage

formerly known as Sam wrote:

glamorganalun wrote:Not reffing the scrum to Ireland s advantage

He's letting Ross get away with getting mullered and folding in at every scrum. Ross is going in and down to avoid going backwards. Ireland fortunate in that regard.

Agreed

HammerofThunor wrote:I suppose this is one way to lose the 'favourite' tags the Irish hate so much. Have a poor start but stay within touch. Come out in the second half as underdogs and rip into them. Cunning.

If Carlsberg did world cup quarter finals

Argentina set a blistering pace in the first 20 minutes, and tore us apart. Looks like that has taken it out of them though, with Ireland slowly edging into the game. Don't know if it will be enough though.

Still not out of sight for Ireland, but its going to be tough. Good game for the neutral

Before the game started i thought Ireland would be in the lead at half time, and not the other way around.

Ireland have a lot of work to do in the second half, to catch up and win try to the game.

That Argie 3 completely stopped Argentina's momentum..

HammerofThunor wrote:What a start by the Argentinos. Is this difference playing regular games against decent opposition gives you?

Yup

Notch wrote:We're narrow and we're passive. No line speed, allowing their inside backs to have loads of time to make decisions and pick their passes. No width in defence, leaving Argentina with 2 on 1s when they go wide.

A lethal combination. We need a score here.

I would say its more the sped of clearout and the speed of decision making / passing by the argentines that make it look slow

Ireland have given Argentina space, the most sought after thing in rugby. You can't stand off at this level and win.

Big next 10mins.

Cracking first half - this is the sort of entertainment we need

Just a polite word to Ireland - you cannot start very slowly, concede a bucketload of tries and then spend the rest of the game trying to claw it back.

That's OUR move.

COME ON IRELAND!

The quality of rugby has been pretty excellent this world cup. It's gone up another level in some games.

At the time when Herrera was off, thought Ireland would take a scrum in front of the posts rather than going for the 3 points. I just think they had them a little on the back foot at the time... needed a couple of more phases with the ball in hand to test them. 20-7 would have been a better result than 20-3. It was still around the 20 min mark only... with a large deficit to close.

VinceWLB wrote:That Argie 3 completely stopped Argentina's momentum..

Yeah it was completely moronic and could be very costly. Still 10points ahead but I can see Ireland coming out strong.

Great from Henry

Game on.

Fitz has been immense.

Fitzgerald!!!! Yes Ireland

YEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

I said this had all the makings of a classic!!

Game on!

So lazy from Argentina.

Love Ireland's cunning trick of packing down with a 4 man front row.

Thought I was imagining that.

Good comeback, but I still don't understand why Ireland are standing off? Giving the runners too much space and options.

Arg composure going

If Herrera gets another yellow it's red.

Well, it's over. What an idiot.

What an idiot.

Red card coming

There is nothing in that

That is yellow, clear as day.

Very lucky.

Argentina need to hook #3

wrong decision

Ref and TMO bottled it - would have been a yellow if he hadn't already had a yellow!

I reckon he would have got a yellow if he hadn't have done already

Didn't look as bad on second viewing but it's a yellow for me.

If he hadn't already been binned there's no way he gets away without a yellow.

Referee bottled it. If he wasn't already on a yellow, he would have DEFINITELY been sin binned. Garces has absolutely bottled it.

Poor decision from the ref, he's used an arm but it's on the wrong side.

Very lucky not to get another yellow at least.