Tomorrow Benetton Rugby, at 2:30pm local time (1:30pm Italian time) will face the Toyota Cheetahs. The game will be directed by Welsh referee Craig Evans and assistants Ben Crouse and Jaco Kotze.
The only previous match between the two team resulted in a win for Benetton Rugby at the Monigo Stadium.
The full back will be Angelo Esposito, on the wings Marco Zanon and Monty Ioane. Tommaso Iannone and Ignacio Brex will be the centres.
The half backs are Dewaldt Duvenage at scrum half and Ian McKinley at fly-half.
The front row will consist of Nicola Quaglio, Tomas Baravalle and Giuseppe Di Stefano.
Locks will be Irné Herbst and Federico Ruzza. Finally, the back row sees Giovanni Pettinelli, Michele Lamaro and captain Marco Barbini completing the XV chosen by Crowley.
Benetton Rugby: 15 Angelo Esposito, 14 Marco Zanon, 13 Tommaso Iannone, 12 Ignacio Brex, 11 Monty Ioane, 10 Ian McKinley, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Marco Barbini (C), 7 Michele Lamaro, 6 Giovanni Pettinelli, 5 Federico Ruzza, 4 Irné Herbst, 3 Giuseppe Di Stefano, 2 Tomas Baravalle, 1 Nicola Quaglio.
Substitutions: 16 Hame Faiva, 17 Derrick Appiah, 18 Marco Riccioni, 19 Niccolò Cannone, 20 Marco Lazzaroni, 21 Giorgio Bronzini, 22 Antonio Rizzi, 23 Alberto Sgarbi
Head coach: Kieran Crowley
Injured players: Robert Barbieri, Ornel Gega, Edoardo Gori, Nasi Manu, Federico Zani.
Involved with the Italian National team: Tommaso Allan, Tommaso Benvenuti, Luca Bigi, Dean Budd, Simone Ferrari, Marco Fuser, Jayden Hayward, Luca Morisi, Sebastian Negri, Tiziano Pasquali, Luca Sperandio, Abraham Steyn, Tito Tebaldi, Cherif Traore, Alessandro Zanni
Referee: Craig Evans (WRU) Assistants: Ben Crouse (SARU), Jaco Kotze (SARU) Citing Commissioner: Christopher Boucher (SARU) TMO: Andrew Johan Greeffe (SARU)
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