{"id":208548,"date":"2025-10-12T19:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208548\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T19:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:49:11","slug":"paraguay-complete-shock-win-over-brazil-in-rugby-world-cup-2027-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208548\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay complete Shock Win over Brazil in Rugby World Cup 2027 Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paraguay completed a shock win over Brazil on Saturday. Played at the Estadio H\u00e9roes de Curupayty in Asunci\u00f3n, Los Yakares were 39-19 winners. The outcome means Brazil must win by 21 points or more in the return fixture in seven days time in Jacare\u00ed near S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n

Brazil entered the match having won the prior fixture 77-17 in 2024<\/a>. Brazil was ranked 28th in the world compared to Paraguay\u2019s position of 38th. What went wrong for Os Tupis in Asunci\u00f3n? The answer includes factors such as Paraguay\u2019s team appeared better prepared and had more cohesiveness. They won the battle of the forwards and converted more opportunities.<\/p>\n

The lead-up to the match involved a decision from Brasil Rugby (CBRu) to fire Head Coach Emiliano Caffera and replace him with former Head Coach, Josh Reeves<\/a>. ARN confirmed with sources close to the players that many were unhappy with the direction and thus backed the change. Be that as it may, the timing did not simplify the task of beating Paraguay.<\/p>\n

Prop Enrique Quinteros opened the scoring. It came from a mistake from the kick-off which handed Paraguay an attacking opportunity. Winger Juan Gonz\u00e1lez was able to split the defense. Recycled ball and option taking from Gonzalo Bareiro then saw Quinteros over.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s response came from a long pass from Paraguayan fullback, Joaqu\u00edn Mussi. Lucas Tranquil intercepted the pass and linked with Jo\u00e3o do Amaral who scored to male it 7-7.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Urbieta put Paraguay back in front with a penalty on 15 minutes. However, lightening struck twice as Brazil produced a second intercept try, this time N8 Andr\u00e9 Arruda gathered Urbierta\u2019s pass and tan 50 meters to score.\u00a0Tranquez converted for a 14-10 lead.<\/p>\n

Brazil scored again to go further ahead. This time Arruda combined with Robson Morais with the winger over in the corner. It was unconverted and, more importantly, it was Brazil\u2019s last score of the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Los Yakares hit-back with Juan Jos\u00e9 Heisecke scoring\u00a0a try from a maul. Urbieta landed the sideline conversion to narrow the deficit to two points at half-time. He then put Paraguay ahead in the second-half with a penalty on 48 minutes.<\/p>\n

What followed was careless from Jo\u00e3o do Amaral. With Brazil penalized in their own half, Urbieta lined-up a goal. The kick rebounded off the posts only for do Amaral to not gather it. Flanker Francisco Bareiro did so and scored a gift try. Urbane then added insult to injury with the conversion.<\/p>\n

The try of the match came next. Ramiro Amarilla burst through four defenders to go close before Gonzalo Bareiro passed to Arturo L\u00f3pez who scored down the right side. Gonzalo Bareiro was again involved as replacement Gast\u00f3n Salvi scored the game\u2019s final try.<\/p>\n

Paraguay\u2019s players celebrated the victory but will need to be cautious as Brazil\u2019s 2024 win is a case in point of what Brazil can do against them. The winner of the series, on aggregate, will face Belgium<\/a>, Namibia<\/a> and Samoa in repechage<\/a> to determine the final competitor for Rugby World Cup 2027 in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It was Paraguay\u2019s first win over Brazil since 2015.
\nIt was Paraguay\u2019s biggest win over Brazil since winning 45-08 in 2005.
\nReplacements Gustavo Gobeti, Vicente Galv\u00e3o and Renato Santos made their test debuts for Brazil.
\nMois\u00e9s Duque earned his 66th cap, extending his record as Brazil\u2019s most capped player in history.
\nThe winner of the two match series, on aggregate, will join Belgium<\/a>, Namibia<\/a> and Samoa<\/a> in repechage. The winner of the tournament in November will secure the last remaining place at Australia 2027.<\/p>\n

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PARAGUAY (39)
TRY \u2013 E Quinteros, JJ Heisecke, F Bareiro, A L\u00f3pez, G Salvi
CON \u2013 S Urbieta (4)
PEN \u2013 S Urbieta (2)<\/p>\n

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BRAZIL (19)
TRY \u2013 J do Amaral, A Arruda, R Morais
CON \u2013 L Tranquez (2)<\/p>\n

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PARAGUAY
15 Joaqu\u00edn Mussi, 14 Arturo L\u00f3pez, 13 Rafael Bareiro, 12 Ramiro Amarilla, 11 Juan Gonz\u00e1lez, 10 Sebasti\u00e1n Urbieta, 9 Gonzalo Bareiro, 8 Ignacio Mart\u00ednez, 7 Ariel N\u00fa\u00f1ez, 6 Francisco Bareiro, 5 Juan Jos\u00e9 Heisecke, 4 Mariano Garcete (capt.), 3 Enrique Quinteros, 2 Agust\u00edn Ben\u00edtez, 1 Camilo Blasco\u00a0<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Jordi Ch\u00e1vez, 17 Gast\u00f3n Salvi, 17 Ces\u00e1r P\u00e9rez, 19 Adri\u00e1n Le\u00f3n, 20 Carlos Plate, 21 Diego Mi\u00f1o, 22 Facundo Paiva, 23 Gianfranco Parodi<\/p>\n

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BRAZIL
15 Lucas Tranquez, 14 Robert Ten\u00f3rio, 13 Jo\u00e3o Amaral, 12 Antonio Zanatta, 11 Robson Morais, 10 Thiago Oviedo, 9 Lucas Spago, 8 Andr\u00e9 Arruda, 7 Matheus Cl\u00e1udio, 6 Cleber Dias (capt.), 5 H\u00e9lder L\u00facio, 4 Ben Donald, 3 Wilton Rebolo, 2 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 1 Brendon Alves<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Henrique Ferreira, 17 Vicente Galv\u00e3o, 18 Tiago Santos, 19 Gabriel Oliveira, 20 Adrio de Melo, 21 Renato Santos, 22 Gustavo Gobeti, 23 Mois\u00e9s Duque<\/p>\n

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Referee: Francisco Gonzalez (Uruguay)
Assistant Referees: Juan Mart\u00ednez (Argentina); Federico Longobardi (Argentina)
TMO: Ignacio Calle (Chile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paraguay completed a shock win over Brazil on Saturday. Played at the Estadio H\u00e9roes de Curupayty in Asunci\u00f3n,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-208548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}