They finish with a resounding victory over a team ranked above them, but there will be a whopping great asterisk next to Scotland’s second win from four this autumn. Quite possibly three of them, one for each player Argentina had missing for a 10-minute spell of the third quarter.
The score during that period, less impressively, read 7-7. Emiliano Boffelli’s try and conversion for the 12 Pumas on the field cut back Argentina’s deficit to 24-22. But the laws of gravity kicked in after that. Scotland responded with four tries in the last half-hour. The electric Darcy Graham finished with a hat-trick and the restored Finn Russell played like the emperor he so often looks, with more than just a hand in all but the last of Scotland’s eight tries.
