Scotland vs Argentina

But Emiliano Boffelli added to earlier scores by Santiago Carreras, Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro and Gonzalo Bertranou to give the Pumas a 34-31 win. Michael Cheika's ...

Kinghorn suffered his first miss with a penalty to keep it tight at the interval. Kinghorn got back on track with the conversion. A scrum near the line led to the decisive moment and Edinburgh's Boffelli went over on the left before adding the conversion. The Scots then decided to send a kickable penalty to the corner and Argentina seized the initiative. Kinghorn converted. A long-range Boffelli penalty was missed but the fly-half got his next one to get his side back to within a point.

Edinburgh wing Emiliano Boffelli crossed after the 80-minute mark to deny Scotland a tour series victory in Argentina. Scotland were 15 points ahead with ...

“We got 15 ahead by kicking towards the corner in the first half,” he said. Scotland took control in the opening 10 minutes of the second period. Scotland had made eight changes following their second-Test victory with full-back Ollie Smith making his debut, and they finally came to life in the 13th minute.

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But Scotland wouldn't close down the game and the Pumas closed them out for their first home series win over Scotland in 28 years. Instead, the honor went to Scotland wing Duhan van der Merwe, who ran off Kinghorns shoulder and powered past four defenders. Argentina won the first test 26-18 and lost the second 29-6. Soon after, scrumhalf Ali Price kicked out on the full and put Argentina back deep in Scotland's half. Given a scrum in front of the posts, they shoved Scotland back, set up ruck ball, and passed quickly left to unmarked winger Boffelli, who stepped inside one defender and went over the tryline in the corner to a huge roar at the new Estadio Unico Madre de Ciudades. Crucially, Scotland had three easy penalty shots that they kicked for touch instead.

Scotland succumbed to self-inflicted wounds after blowing a 15 point lead to Argentina in a tense and entertaining Test match in Santiago.

It was our best display of the tour, and it would have been a famous win, but the feeling now is the opposite of that. “And we had chances to be more efficient with our exiting in the last 20 minutes, so that was disappointing After a period of pressure the hosts pulled another try back through replacement scrum-half Gonzalo Bertranou sniping over from the base of a ruck. The winger had to make do instead with a 52-yard penalty a couple of minutes later following a Price offside. Scotland had two chances to finish the first half on a high. If you don’t have a good set-piece in Test rugby, and you can’t win your line-out, you are going to struggle.

Argentina's Emiliano Boffelli scored a last-gasp try, as they snatched a dramatic 34-31 win over Scotland in the third test on Sunday (NZ time) after coming ...