For the first time during this season the italia Northwest franchise could select in front of the home crowd their Italian internationals that took part into the Rugby World Cup 2015.
Except the center Garcia, recovering from his injury suffered in the match against Ireland few weeks ago, all the other 10 Azzurri were selected into the 23 list with seven of them as starters.
Although the return of the internationals the line-up still suffers the defeat in the centre unit of many players like Bisegni and Garcia while Boni was ruled out of the game in an injury occurred during the week of training. In the halves there will be the home debut of the young internationals Canna at fly-half and Violi; the 22 year old scrum-half is one of the three Parma born players in the 2015/16 roster.
In the pack respect to last round held in Galway lock Marco Bortolami won't be part of the game -suspended for two weeks after his citing for a foul play occurred in the last Friday match against Connacht - along with Argentinian props Coria and Postiglioni injured this week.
Zebre are looking for their first win of the season as the Scotland's capital side travels to Parma aiming to maintain his 100% victory season: 4 wins for Solomons' side that gain 12 points in the table for Edinburgh, one point behind the leader Munster. The previous three encounters at the Stadio Lanfranchi have favoured to the home side that beat Edinburgh twice in the last two fixture of April and November 2014.
Here's Zebre line-up for Saturday October 24th match at Stadio Lanfranchi in Parma (Italy) for the 5th round of the Guinness PRO12 against Edinburgh. Kick off at 2.30 pm local time :
15 Kayle Van Zyl
14 Dion Berryman
13 Michele Visentin
12 Matteo Pratichetti
11 Leonardo Sarto*
10 Carlo Canna
9 Marcello Violi*
8 Andries Van Schalkwyk
7 Johan Meyer
6 Jean Cook
5 George Biagi (cap)
4 Quintin Geldenhuys
3 Dario Chistolini
2 Andrea Manici*
1 Andrea Lovotti*
Replacements :
16 Oliviero Fabiani
17 Andrea De Marchi
18 Pietro Ceccarelli
19 Valerio Bernabò
20 Jacopo Sarto
21 Luke Burgess
22 Guglielmo Palazzani
23 Edoardo Padovani
Coach. Gianluca Guidi
*Former member of the Italian Rugby Union academy "Ivan Francescato" of Tirrenia.
Referee: Dudley Phillips (Irish Rugby Football Union)
Assistant Referees: Matteo Liperini and Filippo Bertelli(both Federazione Italiana Rugby)
TMO: Alan Falzone (Federazione Italiana Rugby)
Delayed tv coverage on RAI Sport 1 in Italy at 10.55 pm. Live radio streaming in italian through the website www.sportparma.com. Live text coverage of the game on www.pro12rugby.com
Guinness PRO12 Zebre News
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