2023-07-31 20:34:58
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 2 hours ago, Updated 2 hours ago
Grant Williams knocked out after a charge from Juan Cruz Mallia. Canal+
Author of a rough but unsanctioned act during the 3rd match of Rugby Championship against the Springboks, the Argentinian could be sanctioned a posteriori.
Argentinian player Juan Cruz Mallia has been cited by southern hemisphere rugby governing body SANZAAR for an unsanctioned dangerous collision on South African Grant Williams during a Rugby Championship match, the league said. body on Monday.
«Cruz Mallia is suspected of violating rule 9.11: players must not do anything that is thoughtless or dangerous to others“Said SANZAAR in a press release, believing that the Toulouse player should have been punished with a red card.
The Argentina full-back slammed into the South African scrum-half, who had just kicked the ball away, after just ten seconds of play in the Pumas’ 22-21 loss to Johannesburg on Saturday, on the final day of the Rugby Championship.
Williams out for two weeks
KO, Williams was evacuated on a stretcher before joining his teammates on the bench a few minutes later.
After watching the action on the giant screen, Irish referee Andrew Brace commented that “no fault had occurred».
After the meeting, the Springboks coach said that Williams, who knew his first start there, would be unavailable “at least for two weeks“, while the World Cup in France will begin in just over a month, on September 8.
The SANZAAR Disciplinary Committee will meet on Tuesday, by videoconference, to decide.
Argentina will face the reigning world champions South Africa again on Saturday, this time in Buenos Aires in a friendly test match.
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