Wales have a new head coach as they prepare to take on Argentina in the November International Rugby Series in Cardiff on Sunday
Wales v Argentina, Sunday 9th November, Cardiff, KO 17:10 (South African time)
Referee: Ben O'Keeffe (NZR)
Assistant Referees: Karl Dickson (RFU), Anthony Woodthorpe (RFU)
TMO: Quinton Immelman (SARU)
Weather Forecast - Cardiff (check to find out if the roof will be closed)
Wales:
Steve Tandy has taken over as coach of Wales for their first action of the November series. In July they were in Japan where they lost the first test 24-19 before snapping an 18 match losing streak with a 31-22 victory in the second test.
Wales had a really poor 6 Nations earlier this year, finishing with the wooden spoon after losing all their matches, in France (43-0) and Italy (22-15), at home to Ireland 27-18) and in Scotland (35-29) before being thrashed by England in Cardiff (68-14).
In the November Internationals of 2024 Wales lost to Fiji (24-19), Australia (52-20) and South Africa (45-12).
After this Wales will host Japan, New Zealand and South Africa
Argentina:
Los Pumas were not in action last week. They were last seen in the Rugby Championship in August / September / October where they won 2 and lost 4 of their matches. A double against the All Blacks saw Los Pumas go down 41-24 but they subsequently a first win over New Zealand on their home turf in winning the Round 2 clash 29-23. Two matches against the Wallabies in Australia were both thrillers with the Wallabies edging the first 28-24 before Argentina came out on top in the second 28-26. To finish up Argentina lost 67-30 to the Boks in South Africa before another meeting at Twickenham saw them go down 29-27.
In July Argentina lost 2 test matches at home to England (35-12 and 22-17) before thrashing Uruguay (52-17).
In the 2024 November series Argentina won in Italy (50-18), they were edged out in Ireland (22-19) and then lost in France (37-23).
After this Argentina will take on Scotland and then England
Recent Head to Head
Oct 2023 RWC Marseille Wales 17-29 Argentina
Nov 2022 INT Cardiff Wales 20-13 Argentina
July 2021 INT Cardiff Wales 11-33 Argentina
July 2021 INT Cardiff Wales 20-20 Argentina
Team News
Wales: 15 Blair Murray, 14 Tom Rogers, 13 Max Llewellyn, 12 Ben Thomas, 11 Josh Adams, 10 Dan Edwards, 9 Tomos Williams, 8 Aaron Wainwright, 7 Jac Morgan (captain), 6 Alex Mann, 5 Adam Beard, 4 Dafydd Jenkins, 3 Keiron Assiratti, 2 Dewi Lake, 1 Rhys Carre
Replacements: 16 Liam Belcher, 17 Nicky Smith, 18 Archie Griffin, 19 Freddie Thomas, 20 Olly Cracknell, 21 Kieran Hardy, 22 Jarrod Evans, 23 Louis Rees-Zammit
Argentina: 15 Santiago Carreras, 14 Bautista Delguy, 13 Justo Piccardo, 12 Santiago Chocobares, 11 Mateo Carreras, 10 Geronimo Prisciantelli, 9 Simon Cruz Benitez, 8 Joaquin Oviedo, 7 Juan Martin Gonzalez, 6 Pablo Matera (vice-captain), 5 Marcos Kremer, 4 Guido Petti, 3 Pedro Delgado, 2 Julián Montoya (captain), 1 Mayco Vivas.
Replacements: 16 Ignacio Ruiz, 17 Thomas Gallo, 18 Tomas Rapetti, 19 Matias Alemanno, 20 Santiago Grondona, 21 Agustin Moyano, 22 Juan Cruz Mallia, 23 Rodrigo Isgro
The Betting
Average early show, subject to change
Wales +11.5 points at 9/10
Argentina -11.5 points at 9/10
Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.
This Weeks Bets
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