Tito Tebaldi makes his 20th appearance for the side from 20 RaboDirect PRO12 games this season. He will play again at fullback, while wings Giulio Toniolatti and Sinoti Sinoti and centres Gilberto Pavan and Matteo Pratichetti complete the back line.
In the halves, Luciano Orquera (who needs one more point to reach 100 points scored in all competitions this season) pairs up with scrum half Tyson Keats.
In the pack, Josh Sole is back at number 8 with Simone Favaro and Nicola Cattina flankering. In the second row Aironi can count on Quintin Geldenhuys and captain Marco Bortolami: stats say that the pair helped Italy to become the best line-out of the tournament during the Six Nations. In the front row, experienced prop Matias Aguero and hooker Fabio Ongaro play alongside young tighthead prop Lorenzo Romano.
There are two important comebacks amongst the replacements: Tommaso D'Apice and Nick Williams. Williams has played just 8 PRO12 games so far this season, but with five tries he's the top scorer of the club and the fourth of the tournament, in which he scored a try every 117 minutes giving him the best minutes played/try scored ratio.
AIRONI: 15 Tito Tebaldi; 14 Giulio Toniolatti, 13 Gilberto Pavan, 12 Matteo Pratichetti, 11 Sinoti Sinoti; 10 Luciano Orquera, 9 Tyson Keats; 8 Josh Sole, 7 Simone Favaro, 6 Nicola Cattina; 5 Marco Bortolami (cap), 4 Quintin Geldenhuys; 3 Lorenzo Romano, 2 Fabio Ongaro, 1 Matias Aguero.
Replacements: 16 Tommaso D'Apice, 17 Alberto De Marchi, 18 Salvatore Perugini, 19 Joshua Furno, 20 Nick Williams, 21 Filippo Ferrarini, 22 Naas Olivier, 23 Giovanbattista Venditti.
Coach: Rowland Phillips.
Guinness PRO12 Aironi News
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