Tarucas Remain Alive with road win over Cobras

Los Tarucas remain alive in Super Rugby Americas 2025. Los Tucumanos completed a bonus point road win over Os Cobras in São Paulo on Sunday. The 54-33 result keeps the team’s chances alive of a place in the Semi Finals in their inaugural season. Os Cobras will not feature in the Semi Finals and will be watching the final round next weekend as they have a Bye.

MATCH NOTES

The teams were level at 21-21 at the end of the first-half.
Open running rugby was the norm in the second-half as Los Tarucas finished the match with eight tries and Os Cobras with five.
Os Cobras improved on their discipline by not conceding a yellow card.
Los Tarucas conceded two in the first-half and played with thirteen players.
Martiano Arrieta returned from the u20 Championship to look very dangerous.
Os Cobras ended their season with a bonus point for scoring 4 or more tries. The team had a winless campaign.
Los Tarucas return home with precisely what they needed: 5 competition points. They are now on 29 points. Yacare have 31 and Selknam 32.
Los Tarucas now need to defeat Yacare in the final round and also need for Selknam to lose against Los Dogos.

SCORING

COBRAS (33)
TRY – L Massari Temer 2 (7′, 19′); F Luna (34′); H Ferreira (68′); A de Melo (80′)
CON – L Tranquez 4 (8′, 20′, 35′, 69′)

TARUCAS (54)
TRY – T Medina (4′); S Ferro (25′); B Gómez Urrutia (39′); N Roger (46′); M Arrieta (59′); B Estofan (64′); M Pasquini (71′); S Ahguilar (78′)
CON – N Roger 4 (5′, 26′, 40′, 47′); JM Molinuevo 3 (60′, 72′, 79′)
YC – S Ferro (29′); B Garrido (33′)

Foto: Bruno Ruas / Gaspafotos / Super Rugby Américas

LINEUPS

COBRAS
1 Brendon Alves, 2 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 3 Javier Coronel, 4 Ben Donald, 5 Gabriel Oliveira, 6 Cléber Dias (capt.), 7 Adrio de Melo, 8 Rodolfo Martins, 9 Felipe Gonçalves, 10 Lucas Tranquez, 11 Victor Souza, 12 Robert Tenório, 13 Lorenzo Massari Temer, 14 Robson Morais, 15 Fernando Luna

Replacements: 16 Henrique Ribeiro, 17 Vicente Galvão, 18 Tiago Gonçalves, 19 Gabriel Paganini, 20 Manuel Todaro, 21 João Arraez, 22 Nicolás Azevedo, 23 Augusto Guillamondegui

TARUCAS
1 Benjamín Garrido, 2 Juan Manuel Vivas, 3 Rodrigo Navarro, 4 Mariano Perondi, 5 Álvaro García Iandolino, 6 Thiago Sbrocco, 7 Bruno Gómez Urrutia, 8 Santiago Aguillar (capt.), 9 Estanislao Pregot, 10 Nicolás Roger, 11 Martiano Arrieta, 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Tomás Medina, 14 Mateo Pasquini, 15 Stefano Ferro

Replacements: 16 Diego Fortuny, 17, Julián Martín, 18 Francisco Moreno, 19 Joaquín Aguilar, 20 Agustín Sarelli, 21 Simón Benítez Cruz, 22 Juan Manuel Molinuevo, 23 Mariano García Ascarate

MATCH HIGHLIGHTS

Video: To Follow

OFFICIALS

Referee: Frank Méndez (CL)
Assistants: Pedro López (AR); Lucas Saccomanno (BR)
TMO: Victor Hugo Barboza (BR)

NEXT WEEK

BYE
MAY 31 VS