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Pumas change seven for Italy

Thursday 26th June 2008

New look line-up: Argentina

Pumas Head Coach Santiago Phelan has made seven changes to his side to face Italy in Córdoba on Saturday.

Argentina welcome back a host of stars from club duty in the Top 14, most notably Stade Français's Juan Martín Hernández who comes in at fly-half and Biarritz's Marcelo Bosch at centre, meaning there in no room for Felipe Contepomi or Federico Todeschini.

Álvaro Galindo will wear the number seven jersey while Manuel Carizza is added at lock in the place of brothers Juan and Ignacio Fernández Lobbe respectively.

At tighthead prop Juan Gómez replaces Santiago González Bonorino and loosehead prop Marcos Ayerza makes way for Rodrigo Roncero.

Assistant coach Fabián Turnes has described the Test against Italy as an important game for the Pumas as they try to get back on winning track and regain their confidence after losing in the second Test to Scotland a fortnight ago.

Argentina: 15 Bernardo Stortoni, 14 Lucas Borges, 13 Marcelo Bosch, 12 Miguel Avramovic, 11 Horacio Agulla, 10 Juan Martín Hernández, 9 Nicolás Vergallo, 8 Juan Manuel Leguizamón, 7 Álvaro Galindo, 6 Martín Durand, 5 Esteban Lozada, 4 Manuel Carizza, 3 Juan Gómez, 2 Álvaro Tejeda, 1 Rodrigo Roncero.
Replacements: 16 Pablo Gambarini, 17 Pedro Ledesma, 18 James Stuart, 19 Alejandro Campos, 20 Alfredo Lalanne, 21 Federico Martín Aramburu, 22 Hernán Senillosa.

Date: Saturday, June 28
Venue: Estadio Chateau Carreras, Córdoba
Kick-off: 15.10 (19.10 GMT)
Referee: Matt Goddard (Australia)
Touch judges: Craig Joubert (South Africa), Paul Marks (Australia)
TMO: George Ayoub (Australia)