Diego Maradona cheers on Argentina against Tonga as football legend makes rare

It was another No. 10, Sanchez, who ran the show for the Pumas, and he became the tournament’s leading scorer with 51 points so far.

The Tongans will be confident in their ability to take down top-tier nations, cementing their status as giant-killers with a stunning victory over France during the 2011 World Cup.

The Sea Eagles lost their opening game to Georgia before defeating Namibia and with a game against New Zealand looming in their final Pool C fixture, they must defeat Argentina if they are to have any hope of progressing to the knockout stages.

Diego Maradona – the footballing legend himself – was in the stand of the Leicester City Stadium, wildly gesticulating and generally ramping up the crowd.

Indeed Tonga came roaring out of the blocks, but their tries from Kurt Morath and big man Soane Tonga’uiha couldn’t contend with the breakout powers of the Pumas, whose class told in the end as they scored five tries – with Tuculet, Imhoff, Sanchez, Montoya, and Cordero all crossing the whitewash.

Argentina’s rugby team contains a few decent finishers, too.

Argentina are the serial over-achievers of World Rugby, as displayed by their bronze medal in the 2007 World Cup, and their upset victories over Australia and South Africa in recent years. “However, we have to remain alert to everyone who didn’t speak up against those people at the time”.

Morath struck the post with the conversion, but as the half wore on Argentina began to settle, Nicolas Sanchez getting them off the mark with a penalty on the 20 minute mark.

He also failed to convert both tries. The second try was even better, Cordero ripping through Tonga’s midfield before offloading to give Inhoff.

Tonga’s Fetu’u Vainikolo breaks away from Martin Landajo and Ramiro Herrera.

“What let us down today was our lack of composure when they had the ball”, he said.

The flyhalves swapped penalties after the restart before Morath missed relatively routine penalty attempts from the right and the left.

“If we win, with a bonus point, it could take us somewhere we have never been before”, said Latu.

It was the first ever meeting in the competition between the sides and Tonga made their presence felt early on, scoring a seventh-minute try through Morath.

“He said if we reach the semifinals he will be there”, Creevy said, smiling.

“We were not very happy, as our defence was not as how it is supposed to be”.