Peñarol Sneak in victory over Peñarol at the death

Peñarol came out 22-17 winners over Selkman in Santiago del Chile on Saturday. The match saw the Uruguayans scoring a fortuitous try one minute from full-time to claim victory. Selknam will be frustrated with the outcome but the try did see a scrum-half breaking a regulation tackle of a tight head prop. Such an incident should not happen at this level.

MATCH NOTES

Peñarol held a 17-7 half-time lead. The lead was built with two tries from forward power through mauls. Selknam’s first-half try saw Raimundo Martínez scoring from a lineout to maul.
It took a long time for scoring to resume in the second-half. It did so with Martínez scoring again, this time from a set-move with him having a 20 meter run to the try zone.
Selknam turned down three opportunities of kicks at goal to go for attacking lineouts. Peñarol did not concede tries from any of the moves.
Selknam finally went for a kick at goal on 72 minutes. Tomás Salas made it a 17-17 scoreline.
A draw appeared all but inevitable; however, Peñarol scored after they made a mess of their own lineout inside their own half. Santiago Álvarez picked up a loose ball and fell down only to get up and break a tackle from Baltazar Gurrichaga. Álvarez had a free run and a two on one to put Ignacio Facciolo over.
The match-winning try was controversial as the lineout throw was undisputedly not straight.
Peñarol are now 2nd on 27 points behind Los Pampas on 29.
Selknam secured a bonus point to now have 24 points. They can fall below Los Dogos if the Cordobeses defeat Os Cobras well in Brazil in the final match of the round.

SCORING

SELKNAM (17)
TRY – R Martínez 2 (12′, 57′)
CON – T Salas 2/2 (13′, 58′)
PEN – T Salas 1/1 (52′)

PEÑAROL (22)
TRY – M Sanguinetti (7′); F Aliaga (27′); I Facciolo (79′)
CON – F Etcheverry 2/3 (8′, 28′)
PEN – F Etcheverry 1/1 (30′)
YC – J Ferrario (59′)

LINEUPS

SELKNAM
1 Javier Carrasco, 2 Augusto Böhme, 3 Nahuel DeBiassi, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Bruno Sáez, 6 Martín Sigren (capt.), 7 Raimundo Martínez, 8 Joaquin Milesi, 9 Marcelo Torrealba, 10 Juan Cruz Reyes, 11 Nicolás Garafulic, 12 Nicolás Saab, 13 Luca Strabucchi, 14 Clemente Armstrong, 15 Tomás Salas

Replacements: 16 Salvador Lues, 17 Emilio Shea, 18 Baltazar Gurruchaga, 19 Agustín Toth, 20 Clemente Saavedra, 21 Benjamín Videla, 22 Manuel Bustamente, 23 Gonzalo Lara

PEÑAROL
1 Mateo Sanguinetti, 2 Sebastian Pérez, 3 Bautista Vidal, 4 Felipe Aliaga, 5 Bautista Viero, 6 Lucas Bianchi, 7 Carlos Deus, 8 Manuel Diana (capt.), 9 Tomás Di Biase, 10 Felipe Etcheverry, 11 Ignacio Facciolo, 12 Bautista Farise, 13 Alfonso Perillo Albarracin, 14 Ícaro Amarillo, 15 Justo Ferrario

Replacements: 16 Juan Francisco Aguirre, 17 Mateo Perillo, 18 Francisco Suárez Folch, 19 Manuel Rosmarino, 20 Santiago Civetta, 21 Franco Bertini, 22 Santiago Álvarez, 23 Francisco Landauer

MATCH HIGHLIGHTS

Video: To Follow

OFFICIALS

Referee: Damian Schneider (AR)
Assistants: Frank Méndez (CL); Sebastián Toledo (CL)
TMO: Ignacio Calle (CL)

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