The second SRA Saturday showdown sees Os Cobras at home against Los Dogos. The Brazilian franchise are in search of their first win of the 2025 season. The visitors from Córdoba arrive on the back of upsetting league leaders Los Pampas in Buenos Aires. The match is the second of two between Os Cobras and Los Dogos this season. The prior match was high-scoring with the 100 point mark broken.
| SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS 2025 – STANDINGS |
– 4th
– 7th
| SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS 2025 – COBRAS RESULTS |
45-06
| SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS 2025 – DOGOS RESULTS |
| SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS 2025 – DEBUT |
– Lyan Aquino (Jacareí), João Guilherme Arraez (Jacareí), Gustavo Gobeti (Pasteur), Lizandro Urrejola Gil (Universitário de La Plata, AR)
| STARTING LINE-UP CHANGES – COBRAS |
|
IN | OUT |
| 3 | Javier Coronel | Tiago Santos |
| 4 | Cléber Dias | Adrio de Melo |
| 5 | Hélder Lúcio | Gabriel Paganini |
| 6 | Manuel Todaro | Matheus Cláudio |
| 7 | Matheus Cláudio | Cléber Dias |
| 9 | Rodolfo Santos | Felipe Gonçalves |
| 11 | Lyan Aquino | Wilson Menezes |
| 13 | Fernando Luna | Lorenzo Massari Temer |
| 14 | Andrei Santana | Robson Morais |
| STARTING LINE-UP CHANGES – DOGOS |
|
IN | OUT |
| 3 | Octavio Filippa | Pedro Delgado |
| 13 | Felipe Mallía | Leonardo Gea Salim |
| CAPPED INTERNATIONALS |
– (8 capped by Brazil) – EW Pinheiro, C Dias, H Lúcio, M Cláudio, A Arruda, R Tenório, J Amaral, A de Melo
– (1 capped by Argentina) – Pedro Delgado
| NOTES |
- Los Dogos are undefeated against Os Cobras in five prior meetings.
- Dogos’ 10 Juan Bautista Baronio is the league’s top point scorer with 72 points. He starts outside Agustín Moyano who is in the discussion for a call-up to Los Pumas.
- Moyano and fullback Mateo Sánchez have scored 5 tries each in SRA 2025. They are tied with Raimundo Martínez (Selknam) and Juan Manuel Vivas (Tarucas) for top spot. Endy Willian Pinheiro (Cobras) has scored 4 tries thus far thus season.
- Os Cobras are without the suspended Gabriel Oliveira and Brendon Alves.
- The Brazilian side is also missing Lucas Spago, Daniel Lima and Ben Donald to injuries.
- Wing is notably affected; the uncapped Lyan Aquino, and Andrei Santana start for Os Cobras.
- Los Pumas 7’s Great Gastón Revol makes his Super Rugby Americas debut for Los Dogos.
- Lyan Aquino makes his SRA debut. He played fullback for Brazil u19 in 2024.
- João Guilherme Arraez debuts as the replacement Cobras hooker. He and Aquino are both home products of Jacareí Rugby.
- Gustavo Gobeti of the Pasteur club debuts as Os Cobras’ replacement scrum-half.
- Argentine prop Lizandro Urrejola Gil will also debut for Os Cobras. He is a product of Universitário de La Plata. The same club produced former Puma Mariano Galarza at Italian great Sergio Parisse.
- Five Cobras players are Argentines: Fernando Luna, Thiago Oviedo, Manuel Todaro, Javier Coronel and Lisandro Ezequiel.
- All 23 Dogos’ players are Argentines.
| PREDICTION |
Os Cobras are under pressure to end their winless campaign. Looking to do so against the reigning champions will require solid execution of a game plan, outperforming the opposition in the contact area and greatly improved discipline This will ask a lot of the Brazilian side. Los Dogos are favorites to win on the road.
| LINEUPS |
COBRAS
1 Vicente Galvão, 2 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 3 Javier Coronel, 4 Cléber Dias (capt.), 5 Hélder Lúcio, 6 Manuel Todaro, 7 Matheus Cláudio, 8 André Arruda, 9 Rodrigo Santos, 10 Thiago Oviedo, 11 Lyan Aquino, 12 Robert Tenório, 13 Fernando Luna, 14 Andrei Santana, 15 João Amaral
Replacements: 16 João Guilherme Arraez, 17 Lisandro Ezequiel, 18 Tiago Santos, 19 Adrio de Melo, 20 Rodolfo Martins, 21 Renato Santos, 22 Gustavo Gobeti, 23 Widson Menezes
DOGOS
1 Boris Wenger, 2 Leonel Oviedo, 3 Octavio Filippa, 4 Lautaro Simes, 5 Federico Albrisi, 6 Aitor Bildosola, 7 Valentín Cabral (capt.), 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Agustín Moyano, 10 Juan Bautista Baronio, 11 Lautaro Cipriani, 12 Faustino Sánchez Valarolo, 13 Felipe Mallía, 14 Mateo Soler, 15 Mateo Sánchez
Replacements: 16 Conrado Iglesias, 17 Nicolás Revol, 18 Pedro Delgado, 19 Ignacio Gandini, 20 Juan Cruz Caballero, 21 Juan Lovell, 22 Gastón Revol, 23 Ernesto Giudice
| MATCH INFO |
Date: Saturday, April 26
Venue: Jacareí, São Paulo (BR)
Kickoff: 3:45pm (BR); 3:45pm (AR)
Weather Forecast: Rain, 25°C; Wind 6 km/h
Broadcasts: ESPN; Disney +
| OFFICIALS |
Referee: Gonzalo De Achaval (AR)
Assistants: Martín Eusebio (AR); Lucas Saccomanno (BR)
TMO: Victor Barboza (BR)
| HEAD-TO-HEAD (5) Dogos (5), Cobras (0); Streak: Dogos (5) |
Mar 08, 2025 – Dogos 80-29 Cobras (Córdoba, AR)
Apr 21, 2024 – Dogos 31-09 Cobras (Córdoba, AR)
Feb 24, 2024 – Cobras 06-29 Dogos (Jacareí, BR)
Apr 14, 2023 – Dogos 45-29 Cobras (Córdoba, AR)
Feb 26, 2023 – Cobras 14-31 Dogos (São Paulo, BR)
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