{"id":6983,"date":"2025-07-19T22:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6983\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:51:12","slug":"chile-defeat-brazil-in-rugby-world-cup-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6983\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile defeat Brazil in Rugby World Cup Qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chile\u2019s quest to qualify for back-to-back Rugby World Cups was boosted on Saturday. Los C\u00f3ndores defeated Brazil in S\u00e3o Paulo to now be well-placed in the two-match series. The 35-21 win gives Chile a +14 advantage ahead of the return match next Saturday in Santiago. The winner, on aggregate, will advance to the South American Final to determine who goes to Australia 2027 as South America 1.<\/p>\n

Santiago Videla opened the point scoring. The Chilean inside center landed a penalty on 10 minutes. It came after Brazil had looked good early on. Os Tupis were more than rewarded though as debutant Raphael Hollister scored the game\u2019s first try. The English player\u2019s try was converted by Argentine Thiago Oviedo who was also on debut. Both qualify for Brazil via a parent.<\/p>\n

Oviedo landed the conversion to give Brazil a 7-3 lead. Scoring resumed in the second quarter. It was Chile who scored next with I\u00f1aki Gurruchaga doing so from a maul. Hooker Diego Escobar gave Los C\u00f3ndores back-to-back tries and Videla converted both.<\/p>\n

Chile then powered out to a comfortable lead. Back-rower Alfonso Escobar\u2019s try and Videla\u2019s conversion put Chile 25-7 ahead. The result was all but secured; yet, Brazil never gave up and made sure the match was competitive for 80 minutes.<\/p>\n

Second-rower Matteo Dell\u2019acqua scored for Brazil with Oviedo converting. Brazil then had a serious problem as captain Cleber D\u00edas was yellow carded with Chile also awarded a penalty try. Videla extended Chile\u2019s lead to 35-14.<\/p>\n

With time up, Brazil scored through Gabriel Oliveira. Oviedo converted for a final score of 35-21 in favor of the visitors. The try followed that of Dell\u2019Acqua\u2019s earlier in the match which saw two of Brazil\u2019s three tries being score by second-rowers.<\/p>\n

The teams will meet again on Saturday, July 26. Chile will have home advantage against Brazil at Parque Mahuida in La Reina, Santiago. Brazil need to win by +15. Any other result will see Chile through to the South American Final.<\/p>\n

\"\"Foto Cr\u00e9dito: Prensa Chile Rugby<\/p>\n

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BRAZIL (21)
TRY \u2013 R Hollister, M Dell\u2019Acqua, G Oliveira
CON \u2013 T Oviedo (3)<\/p>\n

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CHILE (35)
TRY \u2013 I Gurruchaga, D Escobar, A Escobar; Penal Try
CON \u2013 S Videla (2); No Kick (1)
PEN \u2013 S Videla (3)<\/p>\n

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BRAZIL
1 Brandon Alves, 2 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 3 Leonel Moreno, 4 Ben Donald, 5 Mateo Dell\u2019acqua, 6 Matheus Cl\u00e1udio, 7 Cleber D\u00edas (capt.), 8 Andr\u00e9 Arruda, 9 Lucas Spago, 10 Thiago Oviedo, 11 Lorenzo Massari Temer, 12 Raphael Hollister, 13 Carlo Mignot, 14 Robert Ten\u00f3rio, 15 Jo\u00e3o do Amaral<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Henrique Ferreira, 17 Aquiles Schulter, 18 Tiago Gon\u00e7alves dos Santos, 19 Gabriel Oliveira, 20 Adrio de Melo, 21 Rodolfo Martins, 22 Felipe Gon\u00e7alves, 23 Lucas Tranquez<\/p>\n

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CHILE
1 Javier Carrasco, 2 Diego Escobar, 3 I\u00f1aki Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Javier Eissmann, 6 Raimundo Mart\u00ednez, 7 Clemente Saavedra (capt.), 8 Alfonso Escobar, 9 Lucas Berti, 10 Rodrigo Fern\u00e1ndez, 11 Nicol\u00e1s Saab, 12 Santiago Videla, 13 Mat\u00edas Garafulic, 14 Nicol\u00e1s Garafulic, 15 I\u00f1aki Ayarza<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Norman Aguayo, 17 Salvador Lues, 18 Mat\u00edas Dittus, 19 Bruno S\u00e1ez, 20 Joaqu\u00edn Milesi, 21 Juan Cruz Reyes, 22 Luca Strabucchi, 23 Ernesto Tchimino<\/p>\n

Video: To Follow<\/p>\n

Referee: Pablo De Luca (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Longobardi (Argentina), Sergio Alvarenga (Paraguay)
TMO: Francisco Pesce (Uruguai)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chile\u2019s quest to qualify for back-to-back Rugby World Cups was boosted on Saturday. Los C\u00f3ndores defeated Brazil in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-6983","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\/6983","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=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}