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Italy’s Six Nations kicks off: Michele Lamaro has clear ideas

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After Thursday&#8217s appetizer with the victory of defending champion France over Ireland, the first day of the Six Nations continues on Saturday, with the match that will see Italy starring against Scotland at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, with whistle at 3:10 p.m. An important appointment for the Azzurri, coming off a 2025 marked by ups and downs and aiming not only to avoid the Wooden Spoon but also to surprise the eve favorites. Michele Lamaro, captain of the national team, has no doubts about what to expect.

“We play one of the toughest tournaments in the world – he said in a press conference – and how high the level is we already saw in France-Ireland. Our goal is to continue doing what we are doing, focusing on performance because that is the only thing that can allow us to compete, to come in the final attached in the score and try to win games. We always say that performance is the’only thing we focus on but in our heads we always have a dream firmly set: to win every game we play in this tournament”.

Francesco LuciveroIreland, nightmare in the rain at the Six Nations

The Six Nations kicks off exceptionally on Thursday night for Friday’s Winter Olympics at San Siro.
Yoram Moefana recovers the ball and serves Louis Bielle-Biarrey who jumps three tackles for 7-0.

At 22' Dupont opens for Jalibert who breaks the line and dunks for the French double.

Jalibert kicks for himself, Mickael Guillard clears Charles Ollivon for 22-0.
At 47' Thomas Ramos invents a perfect outside kick for Bielle-Biarrey who flies in the goal: 29-0.
L'Ireland tries to fight back: at 59' Prendergast sends Nick Timoney under the posts for 29-7.
At 62' the Greens advance with maul and pick and go until Michael Milne’s goal.

On 73' Ronan Kelleher intercepts and scores, but the TMO cancels for an earlier forward.
At the expiration Nicolas Depoortere charges, ball to Theo Attissogbe who dunks at the'corner for 36-14.
France dominant from start to finish, bad day for Ireland in the first round.
Mickael Guillard elected best player in French victory in pouring rain.

Saturday it's Italy&#039s turn: in Rome comes Scotland for the second match of the tournament.

Lamaro does not want to think about the results obtained in the first twenty-five years of the Six Nations: “We have to believe in it every time we take the field, knowing that the results and our effectiveness in the game come from the performance – explained the third line also engaged in the United Rugby Championship with Benetton – Without that dream all the efforts we make would be useless. Adding up the last two Six Nations we have managed to be performers against every team. Now we want to do that in one tournament”.

Scotland is certainly a tough customer, but Lamaro knows a few secrets of the opposing players, especially those led, in Glasgow, by ’former Azzurri coach Franco Smith: “Clearly – he still specified – everything is in the way things are executed on the field: so in the end the reading is not so different from the way one does in preparing for any match”.

Scotland, stressed again ‘Mitch’, “has significant depth and has reached the point where they can select players based on form because they are all at the same level. We know it is a crucial game for them as well. Among the three-quarterbacks, Dobie and Steyn have made a top start to the season, this has led to them being selected instead of Van der Merwe and Graham”.

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