Zebre Rugby team to face Connacht Rugby

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Zebre are ready to return to the field in the Guinness PRO14 in the penultimate home game of the 2018/19 season against Connacht.

For the twentieth time, Biagi and his team-mates will play Connacht, the team most competed in an official game in the recent new era of the zebras, twice defeated last season but capable of overcoming the XV of the Italian North-West in the first leg on the Irish Atlantic coast.

The coaching staff, directed by the former Connacht head-coach Michael Bradley, opted for 4 changes compared to the 15 days ago game at the Thomond Park Stadium.

In fact Bellini and Brummer are back as starters after taking over from the bench, the same as the Italian-Argentine tight-head prop Ciccioli, who will earn his starting debut.

The last change is Renton, who will partner South African fly-half Brummer.

Here’s Zebre Rugby Club line-up for Saturday, April 6 match at Stadio Lanfranchi in Parma (Italy) for the 19th round of the Guinness PRO14 against the Irish side of Connacht. Kick-off at 6.30 pm local time:

15 Edoardo Padovani*
14 Mattia Bellini,
13 Giulio Bisegni
12 Tommaso Boni*
11 James Elliott
10 Francois Brummer
9 Joshua Renton

8 Renato Giammarioli*
7 Maxime Mbandà*
6 Jimmy Tuivaiti
5 George Biagi (cap)
4 David Sisi
3 Marco Ciccioli
2 Oliviero Fabiani
1 Andrea Lovotti*

Replacements

16 Massimo Ceciliani*
17Daniele Rimpelli*
18 Giosué Zilocchi*
19 Leonard Krumov*
20 James Brown
21 Guglielmo Palazzani
22 Nicolas De Battista
23 Gabriele Di Giulio*

Head Coach: Michael Bradley

Not available for selection due to injury: Cruze Ah-Nau,Mattia Bellini, Eduardo Bello, Dario Chistolini,Giovanni Licata*, Johan Meyer,Matteo Minozzi*, Marcello Violi* and Giosué Zilocchi*

*Former member of the Italian Rugby Union National Academy “Ivan Francescato”

Referee: Ben Blain (Scottish Rugby Union)

Assistant Referees: Keith Allen (Scottish Rugby Union) e Andrea Spadoni (Federazione Italiana Rugby)

TMO: Andrew McMenemy (Scottish Rugby Union)

Live coverage of the game in Italy on live streaming on DAZN on www.dazn.com. Live text coverage of the game on www.pro14rugby.org and on Zebre Rugby twitter account with the official game hashtag #ZEBvCON