“We know that we are going to be alone”: Juan Cruz Mallía, Los Pumas “against all South Africa” ​​and arbitration

The fifth date of the Rugby Championship 2025 and for Los Pumas A huge challenge appears in Durban in front of the Springboks. The best of rugby, in Disney+ Premium Plan

The Argentine team will try to repeat the historic 2015 win at the Kings Park, but the South Africans arrive at an unprecedented win against the All Blacks in New Zealand And they want to take advantage in the fight to keep the title.

The last antecedent of the team led by Felipe Contepomi in South Africa is a painful 48-7 below in Nelspruit and Juan Cruz Mallía assured: “We propose to think every game as the most important thing, like that only game that is. Without a doubt that in that game the departure of the field and others cost us. Then, they are things that we started working after there, we take it for November and I think that the goal is to go in search of this game, being better than what we were last week, knowing that this is our floor and try to grow and learn after each game”.

In the face of Saturday’s clash, the Cordoba said: “Beyond the names they play, we know that it is South Africa, they are the two -time champions of the world and we have a lot of respect for them. It is to concentrate on what we can do beyond the own names,”.

“We know that they are also strong at home, they look for that energy in the people, so we know that we will be alone there. It is a bit to join, to know that we are against all South Africa. I think that we will be able to get that internal flow out there,”added the Toulouse.

Finally, in dialogue with Scrum, Mallía He referred to the debates in relation to arbitration and the decisions that harmed Los Pumas In this campaign, as was for example Andrew Kellaway’s Forward pass for Filipo Daugunu’s Try in the last match against the Wallabies.

“We try that the things that we cannot control put them aside. Because we cannot change them. What we can change are the mistakes we made, how we can do it better, how do not leave doubts for those situations”said.

And expanded: “There are situations in which we get in danger alone, that if they were criminal or not criminal, whatever. They are situations avoidable for us and it is what we can control, then I think that as a team we have to concentrate on that”.