Argentina have named their side to face Ireland as the Pumas bid for a hat-trick of victories against Ireland on Saturday afternoon.
The Pumas, fresh from a morale boosting 36-6 win over Italy at the weekend, announced their side after training in Naas this morning and include lock Ignacio Fernandez Lobbe in the second row after his performance against the Ireland Development XV last night.
The only change from the side that took to the field in Rome sees Castres prop Mauricio Reggiardo regaining his place in the front row at the expense of Roberto Grau having been dropped for the Italian game following a poor performance against Australia in Buenos Aires the week before.
Otherwise it is same again for the Pumas, who recorded a 36-6 victory over the Italians in Rome.
Stade Francais fullback Ignacio Corleto is again be among the strike runners in a backline that also feature's Bristol's half-back pairing of Felipe Contepomi and Agustin Pichot and Leeds winger Diego Albanese.
Meanwhile, Malcolm O'Kelly believes thoughts of revenge this weekend can have a positive impact on Ireland's midset.
O'Kelly has twice been on the losing side against the Pumas, most painfully at the 1999 World Cup when the South Americans upset the odds to claim a quarter-final spot in a nail-biting encounter in Lens.
Argentina then beat Ireland a second time and by a bigger margin of 34-23 in Buenos Aires in June 2000 - and those losses are what will be spurring O'Kelly.
"If you take on board the fact that you've lost a couple of games against them you can look at it two ways," he said.
"You can be negative in that you don't think you can beat these guys. Or you can look it at that for us we've developed as a side.
"I've tasted the bitter pill of defeat against them twice, so I'm really looking forward to personally lifting my game and playing well against these guys and seeing what it's like to actually beat them."
The Lens defeat, a 28-24 loss which ended with Ireland camped on the Argentine try line and even employing 15-man line-outs to conjure up a victory, still holds painful memories for O'Kelly.
"It was like a funeral afterwards - one of the worst feelings I've ever had as a player," he said. "The game itself was very tough, and I'd like to think that if we were there again we would have won it. But it was just one of those days."
ArgentinaIgnacio Corleto; Ganzalo Camardon, Jose Orengo, Lisandro Arbizu, Diego Albanese; Felipe Contepomi, Augustin Pichot; Mauricio Reggiardo, Mario Ledsema, Omar Hasan; Ignacio Fernandez Lobbe, Rimas Alvarez; Santiago Phelan, Rolando Martin, Gonzalo Longo.
ReplacementsJuan Jose Villaz, Martin Scelzo, Pedro Sporleder, Martin Durand, Nicolas Fernandez Miranda, Juan Fernandez Miranda, Jose Nunez Piossek.