The Pumas are resting backline star Juan Martín Hernández for their clash with the All Blacks.

Hernández was a shock omission when coach Daniel Hourcade named his 28-man squad to travel to New Zealand for next Friday's Rugby Championship test in Christchurch.

Hourcade is monitoring the fitness and welfare of his squad in the buildup to the World Cup and wants to give Hernández a break after his busy workload for European champions Toulon.

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Tomás Lavanini, Pablo Matera and Leonardo Senatore will also miss the clash with the All Blacks.

Nicolas Sánchez, Juan Pablo Socino and Santiago González Iglesias are options at No 10 for the team to play the All Blacks.

"We are following the plan we had set out and picking based on how each player is," Hourcade said in naming his squad.

"We have an individual plan, there are players who are in a preparation period and others with niggles and we don't want to risk them, so it was down to this, the minutes played and the recovery time from the end of the season that we picked the squad.

"After the game against New Zealand we'll meet back up in Buenos Aires for three days and then we'll decide on the squad for Australia, continuing to manage the minutes, and rotate players so they arrive at the World Cup with the right number of games, but still being conscious of the fact we are taking on three global powers. We have to make sure the team is strong, but also follow the plan we've laid out."

The All Blacks and Argentina are in the same pool at this year's World Cup in England and meet in their opening match at Wembley Stadium on September 20.

AT A GLANCE

Argentina squad: Horacio Agulla, Matías Alemanno, Marcos Ayerza, Marcelo Bosch, Manuel Carizza, Santiago Cordero, Agustín Creevy, Tomás Cubelli, Jerónimo De la Fuente, Matías Díaz, Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, Lucas González Amorosino, Santiago González Iglesias, Ramiro Herrera, Juan Imhoff, Facundo Isa, Martín Landajo, Juan Manuel Leguizamón, Benjamin Macome, Julián Montoya, Matías Moroni, Lucas Noguera, Javier Ortega Desio, Guido Petti, Nicolás Sánchez, Juan Pablo Socino, Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, Joaquín Tuculet