Tokyo (AFP)
Second-row Argentine Tomas Lavanini, sent off for a dangerous veneer over Englishman Owen Farrell on Saturday, was suspended for four matches by a World Cup Discipline Committee on Monday.
Lavanini was excluded in the 18th minute of the match lost by the Pumas against England (39-10) in Tokyo.
Lavanini is the eighth player suspended for dangerous veneer since the start of the World Cup. Seven of them have been suspended for three games: Australian Reece Hodge, Samoans Rey Lee-Lo and Motu Matu'u, American John Quill, Uruguayan Facundo Gattas, and Italy's Andrea Lovotti and Nicola. Quaglio.
Lavanini, the most sanctioned player in the history of the Pumas (7th card on Saturday), was sentenced to an extra match suspension because of his history.
He is suspended for the last match of the Pumas at the World Cup on Wednesday against the United States, as well as for three games with his English club Leicester. He will be able to play again on November 1st.
Before the start of the World Cup, World Rugby affirmed its desire to hunt dangerous veneers, made with the shoulder or without clasping the opponent, or causing contact with the opponent's head.
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