Wallabies captain Stephen Moore has sensed a lift in positivity in camp but says last week's victory over South Africa will mean little if Australia cannot win against Argentina in Perth.
Australia finalised their preparations on Friday at NIB Stadium on a surface Michael Cheika believes "you could play lawn bowls on".
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It will be a quick track come Saturday night and the Wallabies are renowned for scoring plenty of points against the Pumas: an average of 28.4 in their last seven outings.
The Wallabies have a winning record of 76 per cent against Argentina, the highest for any nation they have played more than 20 times.
And while the Pumas have lost their last 11 matches against the Wallabies in Australia, they will not get a better opportunity to cause an upset over Cheika's men.
A six-point win over the Springboks is all the Wallabies have to show for 2016 and Moore says there is a strong determination to not undo the progress made at Suncorp Stadium.
"That win last week doesn't really count for anything, it's a totally new game," Moore said. "It's always a good week after you have a win. There has been a bit more positivity around but I think we've tried to keep our preparation pretty consistent irrespective of the results. What happened last week isn't going to guarantee anything this week."
Moore said the Wallabies needed to take their opportunities in attack more than they did in Brisbane, for the Pumas demonstrated against South Africa and New Zealand their potent offloading capabilities.
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"They're a big side physically but they like to pass the ball a lot and there is a lot of running in the games, so we're expecting that," Moore said.
Analysis has again centred on the Pumas' attacking flair but Moore warned their scrum will be just as dangerous.
"That [the scrum] is an important part of their game, no doubt," Moore said. "I know everyone talks a bit more about how they attack and their backs but that's still very central to the way they play. They've got a powerful scrum, they always have, so we expect a big battle there tomorrow."
The Perth fixture is the last time the Wallabies play in Australia this year. The squad departs next Saturday for games in Pretoria and London. They return to Australia before a final Bledisloe Cup match in Auckland and then a six-week spring tour.
The difficulty of winning on the road is a valuable reminder to Moore and his players why victory against the Pumas is imperative to build momentum.
"The results haven't gone the way we wanted them to and playing at home in front of our fans is a big part of what we do," Moore said. "We isolated these last two games [in Australia] as an opportunity to restore a little bit of that and tomorrow is an opportunity again to do that, so that's certainly not lost on the team."
Moore, the oldest member of the Wallabies squad, confirmed he had not been receiving Brumbies teammate and Argentina halfback Tomas Cubelli's Snapchats during the week but wished him all the best in his first run-on start in four matches.
"I ran into him in the street on Wednesday, had a bit of a chat with Tom," Moore said. "He'll be pretty excited about it. A lot of us played with him all year at the Brumbies and he was a terrific member of our team. He's going to be a key player for them tomorrow night."
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