Scotland (19) 52 |
Tries: Tuipulotu 2, Van der Merwe, Graham 3, Redpath, Hogg Con: Russell 6 |
Argentina (15) 29 |
Tries: De la Fuente, Alemanno, Boffelli, Ruiz Cons: Boffelli 3 Pen: Boffelli |
Scotland finished the autumn bid with triumph implicit ill-disciplined Argentina, who added 3 second-half yellowish cards to a first-half reddish successful a stormy contention astatine Murrayfield.
Fly-half Finn Russell, omitted from the squad initially, was instrumental successful each 8 Scotland tries, portion location skipper Jamie Ritchie and Sione Tuipulotu were sent to the bin.
Darcy Graham scored three, Tuipulotu got two, with Duhan van der Merwe, Cameron Redpath and Stuart Hogg besides crossing the whitewash.
Van der Merwe and Graham scored successful the contiguous aftermath of a reckless reddish paper for Marcos Kremer but Scotland led by conscionable 19-15 astatine halfway.
Two accelerated Argentine yellowish cards for Matias Alemanno and Tomas Lavanini followed Graham's 2nd score, with Tuipulotu, who crossed for the archetypal Scotland try, adding the 5th against 12 men.
Incredibly, Emiliano Boffelli had raced distant to plunge nether the posts during the aforesaid chaotic period, portion Jeronimo de la Fuente and Alemanno struck for the visitors earlier the interval and Ignacio Ruiz had the last say, 7 minutes into the red.
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It was a time of six cards, a twelve tries and a badly-needed and successful the extremity awesome triumph for Scotland who present decorativeness their hard 2022 connected a affirmative enactment and with immoderate momentum to footwear into 2023 with.
They tin convey Russell for it. As superb arsenic Graham was - and helium was gloriously satellite people - it was Russell who tied it each together.
He was immense, a changeless root of people and creativity, a subordinate who decorated the Test with 1 flourish aft different and 1 game-winning infinitesimal aft another. A fewer weeks backmost helium was, laughably, 4th prime 10 for Scotland. Thankfully, the weirdness successful enactment has passed and Russell is backmost wherever helium belongs.
Boffelli, the Edinburgh antheral playing his 12th Test successful 5 months, enactment the Pumas up with an aboriginal punishment but Russell took implicit soon after. His offload to Tuipolotu was sumptuous. The centre stepped Juan Cruz Mallia and past powered distant to people portion dragging fractional of Argentina with him.
Russell's conversion made it 7-3, but the fly-half was successful the heavy of it again wrong minutes erstwhile spilling shot arsenic helium attempted to wide from his ain 22. The Pumas seized connected it, spotted a constrictive defence successful beforehand of them and got De la Fuente implicit successful the corner. For a change, Boffelli missed the conversion.
The pivotal infinitesimal came aft 23 minutes erstwhile Kremer caught Ritchie connected the caput with a forearm astatine a ruck and referee Karl Dickson correctly sent him off. Scotland lone took a infinitesimal to hitch brackish successful the wound.
Again it was Russell astatine the bosom of it, stepping into a fractional spread adjacent the Argentina enactment earlier popping it to Van der Merwe, who muscled his mode implicit to crushed it nether pressure. The conversion made it 14-8.
When Graham scored conscionable earlier the half-hour a cakewalk looked connected the cards. The designer was Russell, who went done a spread to enactment the Pumas connected the backmost foot. Grant Gilchrist piled connected successful enactment and erstwhile Scotland went wide they scored. They made a spot of a repast of it. Chris Harris went for the enactment with men moving escaped extracurricular him but helium was halted. In the adjacent wave, Graham bailed him out. The small winger has had a terrific autumn.
That made it 19-8 but the fractional ended strangely. Firmly successful control, Scotland abruptly turned into a punishment instrumentality and allowed the Pumas to deed back, the hulking Alemanno scoring and Boffelli narrowing the spread to four. Scotland person made an creation signifier retired of blowing handsome leads successful games this play truthful Murrayfield was inactive breathing a interaction heavily.
That was the mode of it for a while. Another delicious Russell interruption and offload retired the broadside doorway enactment Hogg away, who successful turn, sent Graham distant for his 2nd effort of the day. Scotland led by nine.
Next, immoderate craziness descended connected Murrayfield. Alemanno was binned for a caput changeable connected Jonny Gray connected 50 minutes and his second-row partner, Tomas Lavanani walked for cynical play connected 51 minutes. Argentina were down to 12, past broke escaped of their ain 22 erstwhile Jack Dempsey fumbled portion successful a flap and scored. Matias Orlando scooped up the escaped shot and galloped away, linking with Boffelli successful support. The helping went implicit nether the sticks, past added the extras. The 12 men trailed by 2 points. Crackers.
Scotland's blushes eased a small erstwhile Hogg enactment Tuipolotu implicit successful the country for his 2nd effort of the Test. Russell made it 31-22 with the boot. That play erstwhile 15 played 12 ended 7-7.
Before we knew it the cards were retired again. A melee connected the touchline involving each antheral connected the tract barroom the budding UN peacekeeper Pierre Schoeman ended with Ritchie becoming Scotland's archetypal antheral successful the bin and Thomas Gallo the Pumas' third. It was 14 versus 13 now.
The full happening was a mess. Fractious and fractured, a stop-start matter that Scotland dominated but struggled to instrumentality vantage of until Russell - who other - grubbered precisely for Redpath to tally connected and people his archetypal planetary try. He added the conversion and the pb extended to sixteen points.
They motored connected from there. Hogg scored six minutes from the extremity and the fantastic Graham completed his hat-trick.
The extras brought it to 52-22, the Pumas adding different effort astatine the extremity done Ruiz. Scotland were down to 14 astatine the time, Tuipolotu being the past antheral to spot yellowish connected time of yellowish and red, but supra each a time erstwhile Russell and Graham shone brightly.
Line-ups
Scotland: Hogg; Graham, Harris, Tuipulotu, Van der Merwe; Russell, Price; Schoeman, Brown, Z Fagerson, Gray, Gilchrist, M Fagerson, Ritchie (capt), Dempsey.
Replacements: Turner, Bhatti, Walker, Young, Christie, White, Kinghorn, Redpath.
Argentina: Mallia; Delguy, Orlando, De la Fuente, Boffelli; S Carreras, Bertranou; Gallo, Montoya (capt), Bello, Alemanno, Lavanini, Gonzalez, Kremer, Matera.
Replacements: Ruiz, Tetaz Champarro, Medrano, Paulos, Isa, Bazan Velez, Sanchez, Moroni.