Benetton Rugby team to face Leinster Rugby

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Benetton Rugby will return at the Monigo Stadium to face Leinster Rugby on Saturday afternoon.

The match will start at 4pm and will be directed by Welsh referee Ben Whitehouse and assistants Craig Evans and Andrea Spadoni.

These are the 23 Lions that will take the field:

Full back will be Jayden Hayward, on the wings Ratuva Tavuyara and Monty Ioane. Ignacio Brex and captain Alberto Sgarbi will be right and left centre respectively.

The half backs are Dewaldt Duvenage at scrum half and Antonio Rizzi at fly-half.

The front row will consist of Derrick Appiah, Hame Faiva and Marco Riccioni.

The locks will be Irné Herbst and Federico Ruzza. Finally, the back row sees Giovanni Pettinelli, Michele Lamaro and Marco Barbini completing the XV chosen by Crowley.

Benetton Rugby:
15 Jayden Hayward, 14 Ratuva Tavuyara, 13 Ignacio Brex, 12 Alberto Sgarbi (C), 11 Monty Ioane, 10 Antonio Rizzi, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Marco Barbini, 7 Michele Lamaro, 6 Giovanni Pettinelli, 5 Federico Ruzza, 4 Irné Herbst, 3 Marco Riccioni, 2 Hame Faiva, 1 Derrick Appiah.

Substitutes:

16 Tomas Baravalle, 17 Alberto De Marchi, 18 Simone Ferrari, 19 Alessandro Zanni, 20 Marco Lazzaroni, 21 Tito Tebaldi, 22 Tommaso Iannone, 23 Angelo Esposito

Head Coach: Kieran Crowley

Unavailable: Tommaso Allan, Robert Barbieri, Ornel Gega, Nasi Manu, Ian McKinley, Abraham Steyn, Federico Zani

Referee: Ben Whitehouse (WRU) Assistant Referees: Craig Evans (WRU), Andrea Spadoni (FIR)

Citing Commissioner: Giuseppe Vivarini e Stafano Marrama (FIR)

TMO: Alan Falzone (FIR)

Live coverage of the game in Italy on live streaming on DAZN on www.dazn.com. Live text coverage of the game on www.benettonrugby.it on Benetton Rugby twitter account with the official game hashtag #BENvLEI