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SCORING<\/p>\nAfter six narrow losses in the opening six rounds of Super Rugby Americas (SRA) 2026, Yacare were winless. This ended in week seven as Yacare were comprehensive winners over Los Dogos in Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay. The 41-20 victory sees the team now having breathing space between itself and the bottom of the table Cobras.<\/p>\n
Los Dogos could be accused of being complacent; however, the real story of the night was that Yacare turned-up and put in an excellent performance. In fact, Yacare won despite having lost Juan Bautista Mernes to a red card in the first-half.<\/p>\n
The first-half was highly competitive. Both teams scored two tries and, thanks to goal-kicking accuracy, Yacare were 14-10 up at the interval. Paraguayan flanker Ariel N\u00fa\u00f1ez opened the scoring while hooker\u00a0Jordi Chavez scored in there try zone late in the half.<\/p>\n
Los Dogos\u2019 two first-half tries also went to forwards. Former Los Cafeteros Pro forward, Enzo Ocampo scored as did hooker Juan Ignacio Revol.<\/p>\n
The second-half was very different. Los Dogos scored 10 points in total to double their score, but this was far from sufficient as Yacare went from 14 points to 41. Joaqu\u00edn Lamas landed two penalties to give the Paraguayans a good lead before he converted Francisco Calello\u2019s try. This was also inside the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Winger Juan Gonzalez then scored for Yacare at the close of the third quarter to seal to victory. Yacare were ahead by 31 points and had the bonus point win secured. Los Dogos were visibly cross with themselves but finished with two late tries to Pumas center Faustino S\u00e1nchez Valarolo and Argentina XV winger Mateo Soler to secure a losing bonus point. Woeful goal-kicking saw all four Dogos tries unconverted.<\/p>\n
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SCORING<\/p>\n
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YACARE (41)
TRY \u2013 A N\u00fa\u00f1ez (13\u2032); J Chaves (36\u2032); F Calello (53\u2032); J Gonz\u00e1lez (59\u2032)
CON \u2013 J Lamas 4 (14\u2032, 37\u2032, 54\u2032, 60\u2032)
PEN \u2013 J Lamas 2 (47\u2032, 49\u2032)
YC \u2013 JB Mernes (18\u2032)
RC \u2013 JB Mernes (33\u2032)<\/p>\n
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DOGOS (20)
TRY \u2013 E Ocampo (18\u2032); J Greissing Revol (34\u2032); F S\u00e1nchez Valarolo (32\u2032); M Soler (80\u2032)
YC \u2013 O Filippa (52\u2032)<\/p>\n
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LINE-UPS<\/p>\n
YACARE
1 Nicolas Toth, 2 Jordi Chavez, 3 Rodolfo Rivadeneira, 4 Marteo Gasparotti, 5 Joaqu\u00edn Dom\u00ednguez Herrera, 6 Manuel Todaro, 7 Ariel N\u00fa\u00f1ez, 8 Juan Bautista Mernes, 9 Juan Cruz Strada, 10 Joaqu\u00edn Lamas, 11 Juan Gonz\u00e1lez, 12 Francisco Gaspes, 13 Ramiro Amarilla (capt.), 14 Arturo L\u00f3pez, 15 Francisco Calello<\/p>\n
Replacements: 16 Valentino Rocco Rios, 17 Camilo Blasco, 18 Lu\u00eds Enrique Quinteros, 19 Mat\u00edas Muniagurria, 20 Francisco Luis Bareiro, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Sebasti\u00e1n Urbieta, 23 Joaqu\u00edn Mussi<\/p>\n
DOGOS
1 Ezequiel Bustos L\u00f3pez, 2 Juan Ignacio Revol, 3 Octavio Ignacio Filippa, 4 Valentin Gozalvez, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 Gaston Garayzabal, 7 Lautaro Simes, 8 Valentin Cabral (capt.), 9 Nicol\u00e1s Viola, 10 Facundo Pueyrred\u00f3n, 11 Agustin De Vertiz, 12 Faustino Sanchez Valarolo, 13 Agust\u00edn Segura, 14 Mateo Soler, 15 Mateo S\u00e1nchez<\/p>\n
Replacements: 16 Tom\u00e1s Montilla, 17 Juan Aguirre, 18 Galo Fern\u00e1ndez, 19 Tom\u00e1s Maria G\u00f3mez Gonz\u00e1lez, 20 Genaro Fissore, 21 Genaro Podesta, 22 Giuliano Avaca, 23 Ernesto Giudice<\/p>\n
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MATCH HIGHLIGHTS<\/p>\n
Video: To Follow<\/p>\n
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MATCH OFFICIALS<\/p>\n
VS
Referee: Dami\u00e1n Schneider(Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Raimundo Fuenzalida (Chile); Adri\u00e1n Bogado (Paraguay)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After six narrow losses in the opening six rounds of Super Rugby Americas (SRA) 2026, Yacare were winless.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,219276,446],"class_list":{"0":"post-601252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-super-rugby-americas","13":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601252","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=601252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}