Watch every second of the 2025 Autumn Nations Series live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nArgentina responded with five tries in the final 23 minutes as skipper Julian Montoya, Rodrigo Isgro, Pedro Rubiolo, Pablo Matera and Justo Piccardo all crossed Scotland’s line.<\/p>\n
Santiago Carreras, on as replacement, kicked four conversions and Argentina won in Edinburgh for the first time in 16 years.<\/p>\n
“We fell asleep at the wheel,” Scotland captain Sione Tuipulotu, whose side were booed off the field at full-time, told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n
Defeat followed last week’s agonising loss to New Zealand when Scotland fought back from 17-0 down to 17-17 before suffering a 25-17 loss that left them still searching for a first win in 120 years of Tests with the All Blacks.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think I could be as disappointed as I was last week, but I think this is more disappointing,” Australia-born centre Tuipulotu told the BBC. “I said to the boys: ‘we are going to have to take a really hard look at ourselves’.”<\/p>\n
– ‘Not good enough’ –<\/p>\n
Scotland coach Gregor Townsend added: “We went 21-0 up and were back on their try-line and there’s a huge momentum swing in that moment. The last 10 minutes wasn’t good enough.”<\/p>\n
Argentina, fresh from a record 52-28 win over Wales in Cardiff, struggled to impose themselves early on at Murrayfield.<\/p>\n
But as the match headed into the final quarter the Pumas capitalised on a loose pass from Scotland playmaker Finn Russell and a yellow card for Blair Kinghorn to turn the tide in spectacular style.<\/p>\n
Scotland were forced into a late change when scrum-half Ben White dropped out due to illness, with Jamie Dobie taking his place.<\/p>\n
The hosts soon found themselves up against 14 men when Argentina full-back Juan Cruz Mallia was yellow-carded for a deliberate knock-on.<\/p>\n
Mallia was still in the sin bin when Scotland opened the scoring, Russell sending back-row Jack Dempsey for a try the fly-half converted.<\/p>\n
Mallia missed two penalties either side of Scotland doubling their lead when Ashman piled over for a try, again converted by Russell.<\/p>\n
Scotland went further ahead in the 44th minute when Ashman scored a close-range try.<\/p>\n
The match turned when, with Scotland threatening a fourth try, Russell’s ambitious pass was intercepted, with Argentina launching a counter-attack that led to Scotland full-back Kinghorn being sin-binned in the 54th minute for deliberate offside.<\/p>\n
The Pumas, who still had not scored a point, made their man advantage count by scoring twice in three minutes.<\/p>\n
Montoya was awarded a 57th-minute try. The hooker was ruled to have grounded the ball over the line following a lengthy television review. Carreras converted.<\/p>\n
Pumas wing Rodrigo Isgo then struck from close range for an unconverted try.<\/p>\n
Russell’s long-range penalty gave Scotland a 24-12 lead with 16 minutes left but the Pumas were far from finished.<\/p>\n
Argentina lock Pedro Rubiolo scored a pick-and-go try under the posts in the 70th minute. Carreras’s conversion cut Scotland’s lead to five points.<\/p>\n
In the 75th minute the Pumas had a fourth try when replacement back row Matera was ruled to have grounded the ball on review.<\/p>\n
Carreras’s conversion nudged Argentina two points ahead and, with a minute left, Piccardo compounded Scotland’s woes by running in a try converted by Carreras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentina staged an astonishing rally as they came from 21-0 behind to beat Scotland 33-24 in an Autumn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[12910,64,63,760,5994,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-289093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-rugby","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289093","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=289093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}