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ITALY NAME TEAM TO FACE SCOTLAND

IOANE 2024
Gonzalo Quesada, the Italy men’s head coach has named his team to take on Scotland on Saturday 9 March at 2:15 at the Stadio Olimpico for Round 4 of the Guinness Six Nations 2024.

The game will be shown live in Italy on Sky Sport 1 and on terrestrial on Cielo (channel 26).

There is a new back three with Ange Capuozzo, Monty Ioane and Louis Lynagh making his debut with the national team. Tommaso Menoncello will join Juan Ignacio Brex in the centres while Paolo Garbisi and Martin Page-Relo will form the half-back pairing once again.

Italy team to face Scotland

15 Ange CAPUOZZO (Stade Toulousain, 18 caps) 14 Louis LYNAGH (Harlequins, debut) 13 Juan Ignacio BREX (Benetton Rugby, 33 caps) 12 Tommaso MENONCELLO (Benetton Rugby, 16 caps) 11 Monty IOANE (Lyon 28 caps) 10 Paolo GARBISI (Toulon, 34 caps) 9 Martin PAGE-RELO (Lyon, 6 caps) 8 Ross VINTCENT (Exeter, 2 caps) 7 Michele LAMARO (Benetton Rugby, 36 caps) – captain 6 Sebastian NEGRI (Benetton Rugby, 53 caps) 5 Federico RUZZA (Benetton Rugby, 52 caps) 4 Niccolò CANNONE (Benetton Rugby, 39 caps) 3 Simone FERRARI (Benetton Rugby, 51 caps) 2 Giacomo NICOTERA (Benetton Rugby, 21 caps) 1 Danilo FISCHETTI (Zebre Parma, 39 caps)

Replacements

16 Gianmarco LUCCHESI (Benetton Rugby, 20 caps) 17 Mirco SPAGNOLO (Benetton Rugby, 3 caps) 18 Giosuè ZILOCCHI (Benetton Rugby, 19 caps) 19 Andrea ZAMBONIN (Zebre Parma, 6 caps) 20 Lorenzo CANNONE (Benetton Rugby, 17 caps) 21 Stephen VARNEY (Gloucester, 27 caps) 22 Leonardo MARIN (Benetton Rugby, 7 caps) 23 Federico MORI (Bayonne, 16 caps)