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Men's Rugby World Cup 1999 · Millennium Stadium, Cardiff · 1 October 1999Head-to-head
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Wales won by 5 points.Half-time 13–9 · Tries 2–0

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4150
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Tacklesmademissed
WAL6110
ARG9422
Kicks at goalconv.pensdrops
WAL2/23/30
ARG0/06/60
← Argentina attack · Wales attack →Hover a try for detail · dots = tackles made · dashed = penalty goal · orange = missed · squares = rucks · triangles = line breaks and defenders beaten · rings = turnovers · bars at the foot = zone counts · thin lines = kicks from hand = attacking entries and ball won per band
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  • Ruck, line break, turnover, lineout and kick-from-hand positions are not in the feed for this match.
  • Tries with a dashed ring have no recorded position, so they sit in the in-goal at the end that side attacked.
Tries and goal kicks as a table
MinTeamWhatScore
41′WalesTry, Colin Charvis, converted11–9
50′WalesTry, Mark Taylor, converted18–9
Sample dataTerritory shares are estimated, and tries without a recorded position are placed in the in-goal. Other positions are as logged by the match feed and approximate.

Score progression

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41′Colin Charvis50′Mark Taylor
WAL

Team stats

ARG
100%Possession0%
99Carries55
473Metres gained228
14Clean breaks2
22Defenders beaten10
126Passes70
18Offloads4
61Tackles made94
10Tackles missed22
48/57Rucks won43/49
11/17Lineouts won15/18
8/8Scrums won6/7
5/5Mauls won14/15
13Penalties conceded9
34Kicks from hand48
Goal kicking
WAL conversions 2/2, penalties 3/3 · ARG conversions 0/0, penalties 6/6. Pale segment = set piece lost.

Match statistics and event positions come from World Rugby’s public match feed, which is unofficial and not licensed for reuse; TheBreakdown reduces them to the figures shown. This feed has team statistics but no positions for this match.

Line-ups

Wales

  1. 1Peter RogersProp
  2. 2Garin JenkinsHooker
  3. 3Dai YoungProp
  4. 4Craig QuinnellSecond row
  5. 5Chris WyattSecond row
  6. 6Colin CharvisFlanker
  7. 7Brett SinkinsonFlanker
  8. 8Scott QuinnellNumber 8
  9. 9Rob HowleyScrum-half
  10. 10Neil JenkinsFly-half
  11. 11Dafydd JamesWing
  12. 12Scott GibbsCentre
  13. 13Mark TaylorCentre
  14. 14Gareth ThomasWing
  15. 15Shane HowarthFull-back
  16. 16Jason Jones-HughesBench
  17. 17Stephen JonesBench
  18. 18David LlewellynBench
  19. 19Mike VoyleBench
  20. 20ALP LewisBench
  21. 21Ben EvansBench
  22. 22Jonathan HumphreysBench

Argentina

  1. 1Roberto GrauProp
  2. 2Mario LedesmaHooker
  3. 3Mauricio ReggiardoProp
  4. 4Raul PerezSecond row
  5. 5Alejandro AllubSecond row
  6. 6Santiago PhelanFlanker
  7. 7Lucas OstigliaFlanker
  8. 8Gonzalo Longo ElíaNumber 8
  9. 9Agustin PichotScrum-half
  10. 10Gonzalo QuesadaFly-half
  11. 11Diego AlbaneseWing
  12. 12Lisandro ArbizuCentre
  13. 13Eduardo SimoneCentre
  14. 14Octavio BartolucciWing
  15. 15Manuel ContepomiFull-back
  16. 16Gonzalo CamardonBench
  17. 17Felipe ContepomiBench
  18. 18Nicolás FernandezBench
  19. 19Agustin CanaldaBench
  20. 20Rolando MartinBench
  21. 21Omar Hasan JalilBench
  22. 22Carlos Ignacio Fernandez LobbeBench

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Context

All-time, Wales 15–10 Argentina, 2 drawn in 27 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Wales going in
Argentina going in

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.