Live Lions v Argentina: Score and latest updates from tour match in Dublin
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Tonight's line-ups
Maro Itoje, Lions captain, lines up in the second row alongside Tadhg Beirne, while there are four openside flankers in the squad - with the man of the moment, Henry Pollock, on the bench - and both Bundee Aki and Sione Tuipulotu named in the centres. There are nine Englishmen in the starting XV
British & Irish Lions starting XV: M Smith; T Freeman, S Tuipulotu, B Aki, D van der Merwe; F Smith, A Mitchell; E Genge, L Cowan-Dickie, F Bealham, M Itoje (capt), T Beirne, T Curry, J Morgan, B Earl.
Replacements: R Kelleher, P Schoeman, T Furlong, S Cummings, H Pollock, T Williams, E Daly, M Hansen.
Julian Montoya will lead Argentina against the Lions just six days after starting Leicester's Premiership final defeat to Bath.
Saracens flanker Juan Martin Gonzalez and Gloucester's Bath-bound full-back Santiago Carreras are among a strong Premiership contingent which includes Rodrigo Isgro, Lucio Cinti, Mayco Vivas, Franco Molina, Pedro Rubiolo as well as Montoya.
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