Round twelve of Super Rugby Americas 2025 begins in Argentina on Friday. The Friday showdown is a derby of Tucumán vs Córdoba. The 3rd placed Dogos travel to Tucumán to face rookie team Los Tarucas. Both teams need the win. Los Cordobeses are the defending champions but sit in third position while Los Tarucas are two points outside the Semi Finals zone at present.
| SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS 2025 – |
| SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS 2025 – |
| STARTING LINE-UP CHANGES – |
| IN | OUT | |
| 2 | Juan Manuel Vivas | Tomás Bartolini |
| 15 | Ignacio Cerrutti | Stefano Ferro |
| STARTING LINE-UP CHANGES – |
| IN | OUT | |
| 7 | Valentín Cabral | Felipe Villagrán |
| 9 | Juan Lovell | Agustín Moyano |
| 13 | Leonardo Gea Salim | Felipe Mallía |
| 14 | Francisco Rossetto | Mateo Soler |
| CAPPED INTERNATIONALS |
– Diego Fortuny
– Pedro Delgado
| NOTES |
- The match opens competition in Tucumán between Argentina’s two professional teams del interior.
- The teams faced-off in two warm-up matches in February. Los Dogos won both matches.
- Los Tarucas lost captain Tomás Bartolini to a first-half injury against Selknam.
- Los Dogos’ are without regular Mateo Soler who has had surgery on a broken ankle.
- Scrum-half Fabricio Griffo will make his SRA debut as a replacement. He is covering Juan Lovell who starts at scrum-half in place of Agustín Moyano.
- With Moyano out the match will not feature the scrum-half battle which is a potential trial for Los Pumas.
- Referee Tomás Bertazza recently officiated at the u20 Rugby Championship in South Africa.
| PREDICTION |
Both teams have had highs and lows this season. The high that Los Tarucas enjoyed in their prior match puts them where they need to be going in to their home match against the defending champions. The combative nature of their play against Selknam left Chileans injured. It was a display of the stereotype of Tucumán rugby: forward power in the scrum, defense, mauls and rucks. Excellent conditions are forecast for the match. Los Dogos are favorites to win in Tucumán.
| LINEUPS |

1 Julián Martín, 2 Juan Manuel Vivas, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Mariano Perondi, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Simón Benítez Cruz, 10 Nicolás Roger, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Mariano García Ascarate, 13 Tomás Medina, 14 Mateo Pasquini, 15 Ignacio Cerrutti
Replacements: 16 Diego Fortuny, 17 Benjamín Garrido, 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Joaquín Aguilar, 20 Santiago Aguilar, 21 Bruno Gómez Urrutia, 22 Estanislao Pregot, 23 Stefano Ferro
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DOGOS
1 Boris Wenger, 2 Lionel Oviedo, 3 Pedro Delgado, 4 Ignacio José Gandini (capt.), 5 Federico Albrisi, 6 Aitor Bildosola, 7 Valentín Cabral, 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Juan Lovell, 10 Juan Bautista Baronio, 11 Lautaro Cipriani, 12 Faustino Sánchez Valarolo, 13 Leonardo Gea Salim, 14 Franco Rossetto, 15 Mateo Sánchez
Replacements: 16 Conrado Iglesias, 17 Nicolás Revol Pitt, 18 Octavio Fillippa, 19 Felipe Villagrán, 20 Juan Cruz Caballero, 21 Fabricio Griffo, 22 Julián Hernández, 23 Ernesto Giudice
| MATCH INFO |
Date: Friday, May 16
Venue: Tucumán Lawn Tennis (Tucumán, AR)
Kickoff: 8pm (AR)
Weather Forecast: Cloudy, 24°C; Wind 4 km/h
Broadcasts: ESPN; Disney +
| OFFICIALS |
Referee: Tomás Bertazza (AR)
Assistants: Juan Pablo Chumbita (AR); Pedro López Vildoza (AR)
TMO: Álvaro del Barco (AR)
| PRIOR SRA RESULTS |
MARCH 24, 2025 – Dogos 20-22 Tarucas (Córdoba AR)
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