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Sunday 2nd October 2011 ARGENTINA KO: 13:00 GEORGIA Arena Manawatu, Palmerston North Key Facts & Figures Pool scenario The venue • Following Scotland’s loss to England, Argentina need to gain • Arena Manawatu hosted one match at RWC 1987, Wales just one competition point to progress to the quarter-finals. beating Tonga 29-16. It also hosted the RWC 2011 match The highest they can finish in the pool is second. between Georgia and Romania. • Hosted the first ever Super rugby match in 1996 which was Head-to-head also the first professional match in the southern hemisphere. That was between the Wellington Hurricanes and the • Argentina and Georgia have met just once before, at Rugby Auckland Blues as they were then known. World Cup 2007. Argentina won that match 33-3 in Lyon, • Hosted this year’s ITM Championship final to decide which France, and scored the bonus point for scoring four tries. team would be promoted to next season’s Premiership. • Of the current starting XV, Marcos Ayerza, Mario Ledesma Hawke’s Bay beat Manawatu 35-30. Arocena, Patricio Albacete, Juan Manuel Leguizamón and • The stadium has hosted events in a variety of sports including Felipe Contepomi all started in that match. Albacete scored a rugby (union and league), football and netball. try and Contepomi kicked 11 points. • Nineteen years ago, the Great Britain Lions (Rugby League) • Five Georgia players in the starting XV for this match also played here on their 1992 tour of Papua New Guinea, started in 2003. They were Akvsenti Giorgadze, Giorgi Australia and New Zealand. Current Wales defence coach Chkhaidze, Mamuka Gordgodze, who played second row, Shaun Edwards scored a try but Great Britain lost 15-14 to Irakli Abuseridze and Malkhaz Urjukashvili. New Zealand. • Merab Kvirikashvili, who starts Sunday’s match on the bench, scored Georgia’s three points that day. The line-ups Argentina • Argentina have made five changes to the team who beat Scotland last Sunday, three of them in the pack. • Returned to No.8 on the IRB World Rankings after their victory • Rodrigo Roncero and Juan Martín Fernandez Lobbe were over Scotland. both injured in last weekend’s match and are replaced by • Have conceded just two tries in their opening three Rugby Marcos Ayerza and Leonardo Senatore respectively. The World Cup matches, the fourth best of all teams behind other change in the forwards is second row Mariano Galarza Australia, England and South Africa (all one). coming in for Manuel Carizza. • Argentina’s 33 points conceded is fifth best behind South • Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino, who scored the try which won Africa (19), England (22), Australia (26) and Ireland (28). the match for Argentina against Scotland, is rewarded with a • Have won eight of their last 10 RWC matches, losing only to starting place at full back. Juan José Imhoff comes in on the RWC 2007 finalists South Africa and England. left wing with Horacio Agulla switching to the right wing to • Have won seven of their last eight RWC encounters with accommodate him. Gonzalo Camacho and Martín Rodríguez European opposition. are the players to lose their places. • Have played just six Tests in 2011, the fewest of any of the • Mario Ledesma Arocena will play his 17th RWC match, already competing teams at RWC 2011. a record for Argentina but now just one match short of the • Can win three test matches in succession for the first time record for a hooker, set by Raphaël Ibañez (FRA). Ledesma since 2009-2010 when they beat Scotland, Uruguay and Chile. Arocena is now joint second on the list of most RWC matches • Only Samoa have won a greater percentage of scrums against by a hooker, level with Sean Fitzpatrick (NZL). the head than Argentina (17.4 per cent) at RWC 2011. • Captain Felipe Contepomi needs to score 18 points to break • Argentina have the worst success rate at kicking penalties the Argentine record of 590 international points set by the at RWC 2011, scoring from only six of the 18 they have legendary Hugo Porta. Contepomi needs 26 to become attempted (33.3 per cent). Argentina’s top scorer at a Rugby World Cup, a record • Argentina’s overall success rate from place kicks is under 50 currently held by Gonzalo Quesada who scored 135 points. per cent. Only three other teams have a success rate of under • Georgia have named their second-most experienced RWC half – Namibia, Romania and Russia. line-up. The starting XV have 550 Test caps between them. Their competition record of 551 caps was set by the side who Georgia started against Romania on Wednesday. • David Kacharava and Tedo Zibzibadze start as Georgia’s • 14th in the IRB World Rankings having risen from 16th in the centre combination for a Georgia record 14th time, breaking latest update the record of Zibzibadze and Irakli Giorgadze. • Can win two RWC matches in a row for the first time. • Malkhaz Urjukashvili has been named as starting full back. He • No Georgian player has ever scored more than one RWC try. is currently Georgia’s second highest scoring player ever with • Match against Namibia is the only RWC fixture in which 316 Test points and needs just five more to break the record Georgia have scored more than a single try. held by Pavle Jimsheladze. • Have won nine of their past 11 matches, losing only against • Georgia have made six changes to the starting line-up that England and Scotland at RWC 2011. faced Romania, with three players moving from the bench • Georgia are the only team to have converted 100 per cent of to the starting XV, and three more from outside the 22 that the tries they have scored at RWC. faced Romania coming in. • There are six players in the starting XV who started in The referee Georgia’s only previous match against the Pumas at RWC 2007. There are a further three players on the bench who also • Alain Rolland (IRE) has been named as the referee for a record played in that RWC 2007 match. 13th RWC match. He will be equalled by Jonathan Kaplan who will referee his 13th RWC match later on Sunday when Ireland take on Italy. © International Rugby Board 2011. Data extracted from Rugby Information Management System (30/09/2011 16:27). Page 1 Sunday 2nd October 2011 ARGENTINA KO: 13:00 GEORGIA Arena Manawatu, Palmerston North Team Sheets 15 Lucas ARGENTINA Gonzalez IRB RANKING: 8 Amorosino Test #: 344 Montpellier Herault Rugby Club Replacements 16 Agustín Creevy (Montpellier Herault RC) 14 13 12 11 17 Martín Scelzo (Sporting Union Agen) Horacio Marcelo Felipe Juan 18 Tomas Vallejos (Harlequins) Agulla Bosch Contepomi (C) Jose Imhoff 19 Alejandro Campos () Leicester Tigers Biarritz Olympique Stade Français Duendes 20 Alfredo Lalanne (London Irish) 21 Agustín Gosio (Newman) 10 9 22 Martín Rodríguez (Stade Français) Santiago Nicolás Fernández Vergallo Montpellier Herault Stade Toulousain Rugby Club Key Stats 8 Leonardo # Caps Starting Lineup: 386 Avg Age Starting Lineup: 28 Senatore Oldest Player: Mario Ledesma Arocena (38) Gimnasia y Esgrima de Youngest Player: Juan Jose Imhoff (23) 6 Rosario 7 Juan Avg Weight Forwards: 112 kg Julio 5 4 Manuel Farias Cabello Leguizamón Patricio Mariano Lyon Olimpique Tucumán RC Albacete Galarza Universitaire Stade Toulousain Officials 3 2 1 Referee: Alain Rolland (Ireland) - 54 Tests Juan Mario Marcos Figallo Ledesma Arocena Ayerza Tests at Venue: 0 Tests Montpellier Herault Argentina: 3 Tests Leicester Tigers Rugby Club Georgia: 2 Tests Test Debut: 19/09/2001 - Wales v Romania Assistant Referee: Dave Pearson (England) Assistant Referee: 1 2 3 Vinny Munro (New Zealand) Vasil Akvsenti David Kakovin Giorgadze Kubriashvili TV Match Official: CA Brive-Correze Castres Olympique RC Toulonnais Giulio De Santis (Italy) 4 5 6 Levan Vakhtang 7 Datunashvili Maisuradze Giorgi Viktor Chkhaidze Aurillac US Seynoise Kolelishvili ASM Clermont Auvergne 8 Replacements Mamuka 16 Jaba Bregvadze (Army) Gorgodze 17 Goderdzi Shvelidze (Montpellier Herault RC) Montpellier Herault Rugby Club 18 Ilia Zedginidze (Carcassonne) 19 Giorgi Nemsadze (Montauban) 9 10 20 Bidzina Samkharadze (Army) Irakli Lasha 21 Merab Kvirikashvili (Figeac) Abuseridze (C) Khmaladze 22 Lasha Malaguradze (AS Béziers) Auxerre Lelo 11 12 13 14 Alexander Tedo David Lekso Key Stats Todua Zibzibadze Kacharava Gugava Lelo Perigueux Nice Lelo # Caps Starting Lineup: 550 Avg Age Starting Lineup: 27 Oldest Player: Akvsenti Giorgadze (35) 15 Youngest Player: Vasil Kakovin (21) Avg Weight Forwards: 110 kg Malkhaz Urjukashvili Gourdon GEORGIA IRB RANKING: 14 Test #: 136 © International Rugby Board 2011. Data extracted from Rugby Information Management System (30/09/2011 16:27). Page 2 Sunday 2nd October 2011 ARGENTINA KO: 13:00 GEORGIA Arena Manawatu, Palmerston North Head to Head Recent Results Date Team A Result Team B Venue 11/09/2007 Argentina 33 3 Georgia Lyon Summary Argentina 1 Matches (0 Draw) Georgia 1 Won 0 33 Points 3 4 Tries 0 2 Conversions 0 3 Penalties 1 0 Drop Goals 0 Player Records For Argentina against Georgia For Georgia against Argentina 21 Players - 1 Appearances 1 - 22 Players Felipe Contepomi - 11 Points 3 - Merab Kvirikashvili Lucas Borges - 2 Tries - 2 Players - 1 Conversions - Felipe Contepomi - 3 Penalties 1 - Merab Kvirikashvili - Drop Goals - Player Records in a Match For Argentina against Georgia For Georgia against Argentina Felipe Contepomi on 11/09/2007 - 11 Points 3 - Merab Kvirikashvili on 11/09/2007 Lucas Borges on 11/09/2007 - 2 Tries - On 2 Occasions - 1 Conversions - Felipe Contepomi on 11/09/2007 - 3 Penalties 1 - Merab Kvirikashvili on 11/09/2007 - Drop Goals - Team Records in a Match For Argentina against Georgia For Georgia against Argentina On 11/09/2007 - 33 Points 3 - On 11/09/2007 On 11/09/2007 - 4 Tries - On 11/09/2007 - 2 Conversions - On 11/09/2007 - 3 Penalties 1 - On 11/09/2007 - Drop Goals - © International Rugby Board 2011.