Ospreys instead come to their third home game of the season with two defeats in front of their home crowd against Munster and Connacht.
In this first phase of Guinness PRO12, Alun-Wyn Jones and his team mates grabbed only one win; in Treviso in the fourth round.
Eleven internationals who took part in the Rugby World Cup could return available to coach Tandy for the challenge against Zebre.
It will be a special game for the Welsh scrum-half Brendon Leonard, former Zebre player who wore the white & black jersey in 47 official games during the past two seasons. The New Zealander was starter for the Italian side also in the only victory of the Parma based against the Ospreys at home in May 2014.
Respect to the match of last week Zebre will be without two injured players for the Swansea trip: back rower Cook and winger Berryman.
Zebre Rugby team manager Andrea De Rossi presents the pitfalls of the Swansea game: "Tomorrow we will find a special atmosphere: the Ospreys -strong team and a club with great tradition in this competition- arrive by 5 defeats in the first six races of the season and surely will deploy all national Welsh for this delicate challenge. Zebre are presented for the first time ahead in the table standings but the two last Parma wins just belong to the past: we must continue to be hungry for results, keep our feet on the ground with strong concentration, a key factor to achieve success in these high level challenges. It has been a good week of work; once again based on the study of the opponent and on our technical certainties".
Here's Zebre line-up for Saturday November 7th match at Liberty Stadium in Swansea (Wales) for the 7th round of the Guinness PRO12 against the Ospreys. Kick off at 2.30 pm local time :
15 Guglielmo Palazzani
14 Kayle Van Zyl
13 Giulio Bisegni
12 Matteo Pratichetti
11 Leonardo Sarto*
10 Carlo Canna
9 Luke Burgess
8 Andries Van Schalkwyk
7 Johan Meyer
6 Jacopo Sarto
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 Federico Ruzza*
20 Emiliano Caffini*
21 Marcello Violi*
22 Michele Visentin*
23 Edoardo Padovani*
Coach. Gianluca Guidi
*Former member of the Italian Rugby Union academy "Ivan Francescato" of Tirrenia.
Referee: Gary Conway (Irish Rugby Football Union)
Assistant Referees: Sean Brickell e Greg Morgan (both Welsh Rugby Union)
No tv production of the game. Live text coverage of the game on www.pro12rugby.com
Guinness PRO12 Zebre News
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