Benetton Rugby team to face Zebre Rugby Club

Dec 28 • General News, Guinness Pro14 • 1402 Views • Comments Off on Benetton Rugby team to face Zebre Rugby Club

After the measured victory obtained last Sunday in Parma, Benetton Rugby will host Zebre Rugby Club on Saturday afternoon at 3:00 pm.

The game will be played at the Stadio Monigo in the twelfth round of Guinness PRO14.

Scottish referee Lloyd Linton will be in charge of the Italian derby with assistants Sam Grove-White and Matteo Liperini.

On the eve of the match, prop Marco Riccioni declared: “The first round was a tough match, we know that we made a lot of mistakes but during the week we worked to avoid repeating them. During the home game won against the Harlequins the support of our fans has been crucial, we hope it will be so tomorrow “.

Full back will be Jayden Hayward, on the wings Ratuva Tavuyara and Angelo Esposito. Ignacio Brex and Luca Morisi will be the centres.

The half backs are Dewaldt Duvenage at scrum half and Tommaso Allan at fly-half.

The front row will consist of Derrick Appiah, Luca Bigi and Marco Riccioni.

Locks will be Alessandro Zanni and Federico Ruzza. Finally, the back row sees Michele Lamaro, Abraham Steyn and captain Marco Barbini completing the XV chosen by Crowley.

Benetton Rugby: 15 Jayden Hayward, 14 Ratuva Tavuyara, 13 Ignacio Brex, 12 Luca Morisi, 11 Angelo Esposito, 10 Ian McKinley, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Marco Barbini (C), 7 Abraham Steyn, 6 Michele Lamaro, 5 Federico Ruzza, 4 Alessandro Zanni, 3 Marco Riccioni, 2 Luca Bigi, 1 Derrick Appiah

Substitutions: 16 Tomas Baravalle, 17 Cherif Traore, 18 Tiziano Pasquali, 19 Irné Herbst, 20 Giovanni Pettinelli, 21 Tito Tebaldi, 22 Ian McKinley, 23 Tommaso Benvenuti

Head coach: Kieran Crowley

Injured players: Robert Barbieri, Ornel Gega, Nasi Manu, Federico Zani

Referee: Lloyd Linton (SRU)
AR1: Sam Grove-White (SRU), AR2: Matteo Liperini (FIR)
TMO: Steffano Penne (FIR)

LIVE – The match can be followed live on DAZN on www.dazn.com

Direct text of the match on www.benettonrugby.it, Benetton Rugby App and Benetton Rugby official twitter account on the hashtag #BENvZEB