The Pumas buy on Australia on Sunday in the moment semi-final and the Saracens centre opens up on the secrets of their successMarcelo Bosch was aptly named phonetically when he made his debut for Argentina eight years ago,a bosher being a pejorative term for someone who prefers to go through opponents rather than around them. The Pumas were then a team where everything started at forward and nearly always ended there with the backs required to kick and tackle.
Argentina are now the great entertainers having taken the opposite direction to France. They produced in the first 20 minutes of their quarter-final victory over Ireland some of the best rugby this tournament: everything done at pace, and the transition from 10-man rugby to everyman has been astonishingly rapid, or taking little more than two years.
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Source: theguardian.com