Zebre welcome back 11 Italian internationals

For the ninth round of the Guinness PRO12 Zebre Rugby will be boosted by the return of 11 internationals to face the scottish side of Edinburgh.

The italian side - after four consecutive defeats - will try to repeat the result of last season when, beating the scottish capital city side 26-13 in April, the italian club achieved the first ever victory against a scottish one after six defeats.

After facing the four Irish teams and three of the four Welsh ones in the season Bortolami and his team mates will face for the first time this season a Scottish side. Edinburgh will try to stop his losing streak in Italy: coach Solomons side was defeated in the last three outings away from Murrayfield against Italian franchises. Last win for the gunners in Italy came in March 2013 in Parma in the 9-7 final score.

Here's Zebre line-up for Saturday 29 November 2014 at the Stadio XXV Aprile in Parma (Italy) for the 9th round of the GUINNESS PRO12 against Edinburgh. Kick off at 4.00 pm local time :

15 Hendrik Daniller
14 Leonardo Sarto*
13 Giulio Bisegni
12 Matteo Pratichetti
11 Giulio Toniolatti
10 Kelly Haimona
9 Brendon Leonard

8 Samuela Vunisa
7 Filippo Cristiano
6 Valerio Bernabò
5 Marco Bortolami (cap)
4 George Biagi
3 Dario Chistolini
2 Andrea Manici*
1 Andrea Lovotti*

Replacements :
16 Oliviero Fabiani
17 Andrea De Marchi
18 Lorenzo Romano
19 Quintin Geldenhuys
20 Andries Van Schalkwyk
21 Guglielmo Palazzani
22 Luciano Orquera
23 Michele Visentin*

Coach. Andrea CAVINATO

Not available for selection due to injury: Matias Aguero, Mauro Bergamasco, Tommaso D'Apice*, Filippo Ferrarini*, Gonzalo Garcia, Tommaso Iannone*, Luciano Leibson, Edoardo Padovani*

* Former member of the Italian Rugby Union U20 academy "Ivan Francescato"

Referee: David Wilkinson (Irish Rugby Football Union), 30th direction in the Guinness PRO12, first overall with Zebre Rugby.

Assistant Referees: Elia Rizzo e Stefano Roscini (Both Federazione Italiana Rugby)

TMO: Stefano Penné (Federazione Italiana Rugby)

Live tv coverage on Nuvolari TV in Italy. Live score text coverage on www.pro12rugby.com