Full time24 October 1978
Stadio Mario Battaglini, Rovigo, Italy · Tour 1978Head-to-head
Italy won by 13 points.
Scoring
- 1’PArgentina penalty · Hugo Porta0–3
- 1’DArgentina drop goal · Hugo Porta0–6
- 4’PItaly penalty · Loredano Zuin3–6
- 14’PItaly penalty · Loredano Zuin6–6
- 18’DItaly drop goal · Loredano Zuin9–6
- 28’TItaly try · Serafino Ghizzoni13–6
- 78’CItaly conversion · Loredano Zuin15–6
- 78’TItaly try · Rino Francescato19–6
Line-ups
Italy
- 1Anacleto AltigieriProp
- 2Claudio RobazzaHooker
- 3Ambrogio BonaProp
- 4Fulivo Di CarloSecond row
- 5Adriano FedrigoSecond row
- 6Paolo MarianiFlanker
- 7Fiorenzo BlessanoFlanker
- 8Elio De AnnaNumber 8
- 9Angelo VisentinScrum-half
- 10Loredano ZuinFly-half
- 11Serafino GhizzoniWing
- 12Rino FrancescatoCentre
- 13Nello FrancescatoCentre
- 14Massimo MasciolettiWing
- 15Rocco CaligiuriFull-back
- Marciso ZanellaBench
Argentina
- 1Rodolfo VenturaProp
- 2Alejandro CubelliHooker
- 3Alejandro CerioniProp
- 4Ricardo PassagliaSecond row
- 5Alejandro IachettiSecond row
- 6Tomas PetersenFlanker
- 7Gabriel TravagliniFlanker
- 8Carlos SerranoNumber 8
- 9Alfredo Soares-GacheScrum-half
- 10Hugo PortaFly-half
- 11Martin SansotWing
- 12Javier EscalanteCentre
- 13Rafael MaderoCentre
- 14Marcelo CampoWing
- 15Eduardo SanguinettiFull-back
- Adolfo CapellettiBench
- Hugo NicolaBench
Match officials
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Context
All-time, Italy 5–18 Argentina, 1 drawn in 24 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
Italy going in
Argentina going in
- Next meeting on record: 28 May 1987
Also on this day
Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.