All Blacks <\/a>player.<\/p>\nWill Jordan is starting at full-back and his prolific try scoring at Test level is particularly good against Los Pumas, crossing the whitewash seven times in as many games against the South Americans.<\/p>\n
Argentina have been boosted by the return of some of their premier players based in Europe. Top 14 stars such as Santiago Chocobares, Bautista Delguy, Marcos Kremer and Juan Cruz Mallia have come back into the squad after being rested in July.<\/p>\n
Here’s everything you need to know about the match.<\/p>\n
What time is Argentina v New Zealand kick-off?<\/p>\n
Argentina v New Zealand kicks off at 10.10pm UK time on Saturday, August 16 at Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes in Cordoba.<\/p>\n
Argentina v New Zealand<\/p>\n
Argentina v New Zealand is being shown live on Sky Sports +.<\/p>\n
Coverage begins at 10pm in the UK.<\/p>\n
Live stream by using the Sky Go app on desktop or mobile.<\/p>\n
What’s the team news?<\/p>\n
ARGENTINA: Juan Cruz Mall\u00eda (VC); Rodrigo Isgr\u00f3, Lucio Cinti, Santiago Chocobares, Bautista Delguy, Tom\u00e1s Albornoz, Gonzalo Garc\u00eda; Mayco Vivas, Juli\u00e1n Montoya (C), Pedro Delgado, Franco Molina, Pedro Rubiolo, Pablo Matera (VC), Marcos Kremer, Joaqu\u00edn Oviedo.<\/p>\n
Replacements: Ignacio Ruiz, Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, Joel Sclavi, Guido Petti, Juan Mart\u00edn Gonz\u00e1lez, Sim\u00f3n Ben\u00edtez Cruz, Santiago Carreras, Justo Piccardo.<\/p>\n
NEW ZEALAND: Will Jordan; Sevu Reece, Billy Proctor, Jordie Barrett (VC), Rieko Ioane, Beauden Barrett, Cortez Ratima; Ethan de Groot, Codie Taylor, Fletcher Newell, Scott Barrett (C), Fabian Holland, Tupou Vaa\u2019i, Du\u2019Plessis Kirifi, Ardie Savea (VC).<\/p>\n
Replacements: Samisoni Taukei\u2019aho, Ollie Norris, Pasilio Tosi, Patrick Tuipulotu, Samipeni Finau, Finlay Christie, Anton Lienert-Brown, Damian McKenzie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand have won 35 of their 39 men\u2019s Tests against Argentina. 06:00, 16 Aug 2025Updated 08:53, 16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[36919,36918,5903,101,36917,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-71491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-argentina-rugby-team","tag-new-zealand-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-the-rugby-championship","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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New Zealand legend Beauden Barrett starts at fly-half for the All Blacks. (Image: (Photo by Aaron Gillions\/Getty Images))<\/p>\n