Italy (38) 53 / Russia (7) 17 (Final Score)
Italy and Russia did battle in Nelson at 09:30 SA Time (19:30 NZ Time).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 1, SHD & CSN on TV in SA.
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Italy scored 9 tries to 3 by Russia.
It was good rugby though, nice running and full-on dominance by Italy in the scrums.
Scorers:
Italy:
- Penalties – 0
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Sergio Parisse (1), Giulio Toniolatti (2), Tommaso Benvenuti (2), Penalty try (1), Eduardo Gori (1), Luke McLean (1), Alessandro Zanni (1)
- Conversions – Riccardo Bocchino (4)
Russia:
- Penalties – 0
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Alexander Yanyushkin (1)
- Conversions – Konstantin Rachkov (1), Vladimir Ostroushko (1), Alexei Makovetskiy (1)
Teams:
Italy: 15 Andrea Masi, 14 Giulio Toniolatti, 13 Tommaso Benvenuti, 12 Matteo Pratichetti, 11 Luke McLean, 10 Riccardo Bocchino, 9 Edoardo Gori, 8 Sergio Parisse (captain), 7 Mauro Bergamasco, 6 Paul Derbyshire, 5 Marco Bortolami, 4 Quintin Geldenhuys, 3 Lorenzo Cittadini, 2 Fabio Ongaro, 1 Salvatore Perugini.
Replacements: 16 Tommaso D’Apice, 17 Martin Castrogiovanni, 18 Cornelius van Zyl, 19 Alessandro Zanni, 20 Pablo Canavosio, 21 Luciano Orquera, 22 Alberto Sgarbi.
Russia: 15 Igor Klyuchnikov, 14 Vasile Artemiev, 13 Andrei Kuzin, 12 Alexei Makovetskiy, 11 Vladimir Ostroushko, 10 Konstantin Rachkov, 9 Alexander Shakirov, 8 Victor Gresev, 7 Andrei Garbuzov, 6 Viatcheslav Grachev, 5 Adam Byrnes, 4 Alexander Voytov, 3 Ivan Prishchepenko, 2 Vladislav Korshunov (captain), 1 Vladimir Botvinnikov>
Replacements: 16 Valerie Tsnobiladze, 17 Alexander Khrokin, 18 Denis Antonov, 19 Artem Fatahov, 20 Alexander Yanyushkin, 21 Mikhail Sidorov, 22 Yuri Kushnarev.
Date: Tuesday 20 September
Kick-off: 09:30 SA Time (19:30 NZ Time)
Venue: Trafalgar Park, Nelson
Expected weather: Clear with a high of 15°C, dropping to 5°C.
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
Assistant referees: Steve Walsh (Australia), Chris Pollock (New Zealand)
TMO: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)
Vrystaaaaat!
Game ON, immediate mistake by Russia from kick-off, scrum on middle spot
Italy get a penalty and will go for goal
Bocchino misses to the left
Italy get another penalty, Russia offside, they kick for touch this time
Try to Parisse for the Azzuri
Italy 7 / 0
Free Kick to Russia, early engage at the scrum by Italy
Penalty to Italy again on the Russian 10m line.
It seems the smaller or minnow sides suffer from a lot of handling mistakes and quite a bit of ill dicipline, in general. What I mean is that their physicality is usually good, but finishing is a real problem… and under severe pressure, the minnows fold… by giving penalties away
Italy goes for touch
Try Italy again… the right wing
TMO
Awarded
Another try to Italy, the center, Benvenuti
Ciao Gbs!
3 mete per L’Azzurri. 3 tries for the light blues!
Italy 17 / 0
12 @ The_Young_Turk:
Hello Turkey!
Azzuri playing well
Italy really dominating that scrum, and gets a penalty
Italy fail to kick it out, Ruskies running it back at them
Italy counter-rucking the Ruskies off their ball…
Bonus point try for Italy, No 2 for the right wing!
Italy 24 / 0
Russia not so bad. There has been a big improvement in the minnow nations. I feel italy should play more against the 2nd tier teams and not so much against the top teams like SANZAR.
Only ONE team on the field really…
Italy getting penalty upon penalty.. they now have a scrum, 5m out
Would like to see Italy play more against the Pacific nations and Argentina.
Another penalty… Italy WANT to go for the push-over scrum
Penalty try to Italy
Italy 31 / 0
Italy scoring faster than the clock… could be a real massacre here
Italian forward play is up to top standards but their backs can’t play at all. They need to be able to get opportunity to give more ball to the backs so they can develope.
22 @ The_Young_Turk:
Yip… some more exposure for Italy would be good. Not good if they suck the hind tit in the Six Nations the whole time.
Fabio Ongaro cops a Yellow for Italy…
Tryyyyyyy Russia, the scrummie
Deserved try for the Ruskis!
Italy 31 / 7
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