Ireland U20 bring in big guns for Arg

Head coach Nigel Carolan has made a number of changes to the side that defeated Georgia to top Pool A on Wednesday.

Front-rowers Andrew Porter, Adam McBurney and Ben Betts all return to the starting XV, as does captain James Ryan, who has recovered from the thigh injury that kept him out of the Georgia match. He will be joined in the second row by Sean O'Connor.

The back-row is comprised of Max Deegan at N.8 and flanks David Aspil and Greg Jones. Jones will be making his fourth start of the Championship.

Stephen Kerins will wear the No.9 jersey and will be partnered at half-back by Johnny McPhillips, who scored 18 points in last week's Georgian win.

Conor O'Brien and Shane Daly make up the centre partnership and the back three is comprised of Jacob Stockdale at fullback and Matthew Byrne and Hugo Keenan on the wings.

Speaking ahead of the semifinal, Carolan said: "The players have done really well to get themselves into a World Championship semifinal.

There's a great belief amongst this group and they've shown what they can do as a team over the course of the last number of games.

Argentina are going to present another big test for us. They have a lot of physicality up front as well as pace out wide so we are going to need to be at the top of our game tomorrow."

Ireland U20: 15 Jacob Stockdale, 14 Matthew Byrne, 13 Shane Daly, 12 Conor O'Brien, 11 Hugo Keenan, 10 Johnny McPhillips, 9 Stephen Kerins, 8 Max Deegan, 7 David Aspil, 6 Greg Jones, 5 James Ryan (captain), 4 Sean O'Connor, 3 Ben Betts, 2 Adam McBurney, 1 Andrew Porter.

Replacements: 16 Vincent O'Brien, 17 James Bollard, 18 Adam Coyle, 19 Evan Mintern, 20 Kelvin Brown, 21 Niall Saunders, 22 Brett Connon, 23 Jimmy O'Brien.

Date: Monday, June 20

Venue: Manchester City Academy Stadium, Manchester

Kick-off: 17.30 (16.30 GMT)

Referee: Craig Maxwell-Keys (England)

Assistant referees: Elia Rizzo (Italy), Andrew Jackson (England)

TMO: Paul Adams (England)