6 MartÃn Sigren replaces Clemente Saavedra
– First Match of South American Tour
Pablo Lemoine has moved Clemente Saavedra to lock with regular captain MartÃn Sigren starting.
Chile are without first-choice backs Iñaki Ayarza, Rodrigo Fernández and MatÃas Garafulic.
Chilean replacements see reinforcements in the form of players based in Europe: MatÃas Dittus, JoaquÃn Milesi, and Lucas Berti did not feature against Hong Kong.
Lucas Berti will make his debut for Chile as a replacement.
The match is Belgium’s first of their gather match tour of South America. Following matches will be away to Paraguay and Brazil.
Bilingual officiating will feature calls for Chile in Spanish and for Belgium in English.
Chile are 21st in the Official World Rugby Rankings. Belgium are 28th. The win over Hong Kong lifted Chile from 23rd while Canada and Namibia are 22nd and 23rd now. Against the backdrop is Belgium’s 10-6 win over Portugal from February. Belgium went from that win to losing 33-18 to Romania. In addition, Chile have World Cup experience; Belgium do not. Chile also happen to be playing at home and are confident after beating the Asia No 2 last weekend. In short, it is advantage Cóndores. ARN projects Chile to win by +12 points.
CHILE
1 Javier Carrasco , 2 Augusto Bohme, 3 Iñaki Gurruchaga, 4 Clemente Saavedra, 5 Javier Eissmann, 6 MartÃn Sigren (capt.), 7 Raimundo MartÃnez, 8 Alfonso Escobar, 9 Marcelo Torrealba, 10 Tomás Salas, 11 Nicolás Garafulic, 12 Santiago Videla, 13 Domingo Saavedra, 14 Cristóbal Game, 15 Luca Strabucchi
Replacements: 16 Diego Escobar, 17 Salvador Lues, 18 MatÃas Dittus, 19 Santiago Pedrero, 20 JoaquÃn Milesi, 21 Inti Ubeda, 22 BenjamÃn Videla, 23 Lucas Berti
BELGIUM
1 Bruno Vliegen, 2 Alexandre Raynier, 3 Basile van Parys, 4 Gillian Benoy, 5 Maximilien Hendrickx, 6 Toon Deceunnick, 7 Jérémie Brasseur, 8 Lucas Rassinfosse, 9 Julien Berger, 10 Hugo de Francq, 11 Dazzy Cornerz, 12 Jens Torfs, 13 Forian Remue, 14 Thomas Wallraf, 15 Matias Remue
Replacements: 16 Remi de Wolf, 17 Alexis Cuffolo, 18 Samuel Opsomer, 19 Dries de Keyser, 20 Arthur Smeets, 21 Timothé Rifon, 22 Viktor Pazgrat, 23 Simeon Soenen
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Date: Saturday, July 13
Venue: Estadio Sausalito (Viña del Mar, CL)
Kickoff: 3pm (CL); 9pm (BE)
Weather Forecast: Sunny; 14 (Celsius); Wind 10 km/h
Broadcasts: ESPN; Disney +
Referee: Tómas Bertazza (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Mauro Rossi (Argentina); Federico Solari (Argentina)
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