Half-back switch for Italy

Published: Sunday, 25. September, 2011 in category Italy
Orquera: In at fly-half

Orquera is preferred to the benched Riccardo Bocchino in the No.10 jersey, with Fabio Semenzato coming in at scrum-half.

In total Mallett has made nine changes of personnel and one positional switch for their penultimate Pool C encounter.

Gonzalo Canale, Gonzalo Garcia, Mirco Bergamasco, Alessandro Zanni, Cornelius van Zyl, Martin Castrogiovanni and Leonardo Ghiraldini also come into the Azzurri line-up, with Tommaso Benvenuti switching back to the wing after his cameo in the centres against Russia.

Italy: 15 Andrea Masi, 14 Tommaso Benvenuti, 13 Gonzalo Canale, 12 Gonzalo Garcia, 11 Mirco Bergamasco, 10 Luciano Orquera, 9 Fabio Semenzato, 8 Sergio Parisse (c), 7 Mauro Bergamasco, 6 Alessandro Zanni, 5 Cornelius van Zyl, 4 Quintin Geldenhuys, 3 Martin Castrogiovanni, 2 Leonardo Ghiraldini, 1 Salvatore Perugini.Replacements: 16 Fabio Ongaro, 17 Andrea Lo Cicero, 18 Marco Bortolami, 19 Paul Derbyshire, 20 Edoardo Gori, 21 Riccardo Bocchino, 22 Luke McLean.