Preview: Argentina vs. England - prediction, team news, lineups

Argentina invited England to the Estadio Unico Madre de Ciudades connected Saturday evening for their 3rd and last location lucifer successful the inaugural Nations Championship campaign.

Los Pumas bushed Steve Tandy's Wales 35-21 successful their erstwhile fixture, portion Steve Borthwick's men claimed an emphatic 73-8 triumph implicit Fiji astatine the Hill Dickinson Stadium.

Match preview

After a patchy tally of signifier starring up to the tournament, winning and losing 5 each successful their erstwhile 10 matches, Argentina’s inconsistency has continued implicit the archetypal 2 Nations Championship games.

Despite matching their opponents’ second-half score, Los Pumas fell to a constrictive 47-38 decision erstwhile facing Scotland successful their opening bout, but responded well, scoring 4 tries earlier the interruption connected their mode to claiming a 35-21 triumph against Wales successful San Juan connected Saturday evening.

Securing a bonus-point triumph has Felipe Contepomi’s men sitting beauteous successful 3rd spot successful the Southern Hemisphere table, trailing lone heavyweights South Africa and New Zealand, who they volition surely beryllium looking to surpass with triumph this weekend.

To bash so, Argentina volition request to halt the rut against England connected location ungraded though, having mislaid their erstwhile 5 matches erstwhile these sides person met successful acquainted territory and their astir caller triumph coming successful a 24-22 Salta triumph implicit 17 years ago.

Heading into the tourney connected their worst tally of signifier since 2018, England person done a decent occupation of averting their Six Nations woes during the archetypal 2 Nations Championship fixtures.

Despite decision successful their opening lucifer against South Africa, Borthwick’s broadside were wrong 10 points of the back-to-back satellite champions until the closing stages and were rewarded for their efforts with a stunning 73-8 demolition of Fiji successful Liverpool past weekend, ending a tally of 5 consecutive losses.

Currently sat 4th supra some Wales and Italy successful the Northern Hemisphere table, England volition surely beryllium looking to support up the consciousness bully origin against Argentina this play and ascent a further fewer places heading into November’s location fixtures.

The visitors volition besides beryllium enthused by their awesome caller grounds against Los Pumas, winning this fixture connected 14 of the erstwhile 15 occasions and claiming a 22-17 triumph erstwhile the teams met successful San Juan for an planetary affable past year.

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Team News

Argentina person made conscionable 1 alteration to the scrum that bushed Wales past play with Mayco Vivas replacing Boris Wenger, portion Julian Montoya skippers the broadside from hooker.

There is simply a singular alteration to the backs excessively arsenic Matias Moroni is preferred to Lucio Cinti and volition beryllium paired successful the centre by Justo Piccardo, who dotted down Los Pumas' 2nd effort past Saturday.

England person named an unchanged starting lineup from their thrashing of the Flying Fijians past weekend, with Jamie George, overmuch similar his other man, continuing to skipper the broadside from hooker and amongst a battalion that consists of Saracens teammates George Martin and Ben Earl, who erstwhile again is deployed connected the back-row.

After impressing connected his instrumentality to planetary rugby, Henry Slade keeps his spot and pairs Seb Atkinson successful the midfield, portion Tommy Freeman maintains his spot connected the helping pursuing a drawstring of matches wearing the 13 shirt.

Scoring tries connected their planetary debuts astatine the Hill Dickinson Stadium, Benhard Janse van Rensburg and Noah Caluori volition beryllium looking to marque an interaction disconnected the seat erstwhile much connected Saturday.

Argentina starting lineup:

15 Santiago Carreras, 14 Bautista Delguy, 13 Matias Moroni, 12 Justo Piccardo, 11 Mateo Carreras, 10 Tomas Albornoz, 9 Gonzalo Garcia; 1 Mayco Vivas, 2 Julian Montoya, 3 Tomas Rapetti, 4 Guido Petti, 5 Matias Alemanno, 6 Santiago Grondona, 7 Marcos Kremer, 8 Joaquin Oviedo

Replacements:

16 Ignacio Ruiz, 17 Boris Wenger, 18 Pedro Delgado, 19 Efrain Elias, 20 Pablo Matera, 21 Joaquin Moro, 22 Simon Benitez, 23 Lucio Cinti.

England starting lineup:

15 Marcus Smith, 14 Tommy Freeman, 13 Henry Slade, 12 Seb Atkinson, 11 Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, 10 Fin Smith, 9 Jack van Poortvliet; 1 Ellis Genge, 2 Jamie George, 3 Joe Heyes, 4 Alex Coles, 5 George Martin, 6 Ollie Chessum, 7 Guy Pepper, 8 Ben Earl

Replacements:

16 Luke Cowan-Dickie, 17 Emmanuel Iyogun, 18 Asher Opoku-Fordjour, 19 Tom Curry, 20 Henry Pollock, 21 Ben Spencer, 22 Benhard Janse van Rensburg, 23 Noah Caluori

We say: Argentina 21-25 England

Although their triumph past play was undoubtedly impressive, England were surely favourites to travel retired connected apical successful Liverpool and look a overmuch tougher task erstwhile they diagnostic astatine the Estadio Unico Madre de Ciudades connected Saturday evening.

However, aft returning to winning ways we deliberation the visitors volition proceed their bounce backmost against Argentina, claiming triumph successful a choky Santiago del Estero contest.