Italrugby, against Chile a revolutionized XV: as many as ten changes for Gonzalo Quesada

Gonzalo Quesada, head coach of the men’s national rugby team, made official on Thursday the starting lineup that will take the field on Saturday, Nov. 22, at 9:10 p.m. against Chile at Genoa’s Luigi Ferraris Stadium. As many as ten changes have been made by the coach from the starting XV of last Saturday’s match against South Africa, with a couple of absolute starters making their debuts.

In the scrum, debut from 1′ after sub minutes for prop Muhamed Hasa and hooker Tommaso Di Bartolomeo, while the’other prop will be the more experienced Simone Ferrari. In the second line, space will be given to Niccolò Cannone and Federizo Ruzza, the third lines will be Alessandro Izekor on the closed side, captain Michele Lamaro on the open side and Lorenzo Cannone as number 8.

Median of the scrum will then be Alessandro Garbisi, while at the opening there will be Giacomo Da Re. Leonardo Marin will play as first center next to Tommaso Menoncello, while in the extended triangle there will be Monty Ioane on the left wing, Mirko Belloni on the right wing and Ange Capuozzo, fresh from his goal against the South Africans, in the fullback role. Compared with the XV from the match against the Springboks, Danilo Fischetti, Giacomo Nicotera, Marco Riccioni, Andrea Zambonin, Ross Vintcent, Manuel Zuliani, Stephen Varney, Paolo Garbisi, Ignacio Brex and Luois Lynagh will not be there from 1′

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The eight members of the bench will be hooker Pablo Dimcheff, props Fischetti and Joshua Zilocchi, second- and third-line jokers Enoch Opoku Gyamfi and Zuliani, scrum-half Martin Page-Relo, and three-quarterbacks Brex and Edoardo Todaro. Saturday’s will be the first-ever match between Italy and Chile in oval ball.