{"id":409819,"date":"2026-02-05T19:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409819\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:31:15","slug":"landmark-occasion-for-trio-as-italy-name-team-for-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409819\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark occasion for trio as Italy name team for Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Italy<\/a> captain Michele Lamaro<\/a>, centre Juan Ignacio Brex<\/a> and fly-half Paolo Garbisi<\/a> will all earn their 50th caps against Scotland<\/a> on Saturday in round one of the Guinness Six Nations<\/a> at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.<\/p>\n

Lamaro will lead what is a settled Italian team named by Gonzalo Quesada<\/a>, who will be looking to repeat the victory they earned over Scotland at home two years ago.<\/p>\n

In the absence of Toulouse<\/a> full-back Ange Capuozzo<\/a>, who has broken his finger, Benetton\u2019s Leonardo Marin<\/a> will wear the No.15 shirt with Louis Lynagh<\/a> and Monty Ioane<\/a> on either wing.<\/p>\n

Juan Ignacio Brex and Tommaso Menoncello<\/a> will reunite again to form their familiar centre partnership, playing outside Garbisi. With Martin Page-Relo<\/a> and Stephen Varney<\/a> injured, Zebre\u2019s Alessandro Fusco<\/a> will be Garbisi\u2019s half-back partner.<\/p>\n

Only one player in the pack, lock Andrea Zambonin<\/a>, has fewer than 30 caps, with Lamaro joining Danilo Fischetti<\/a>, Simone Ferrari<\/a> and Niccolo Cannone<\/a> as a half-centurion at the weekend.<\/p>\n

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Italy <\/p>\n

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Scotland <\/p>\n

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Italy XV
15. Leonardo Marin (Benetton<\/a> Rugby, 17 caps)
14. Louis Lynagh (Benetton Rugby, 9 caps)
13. Juan Ignacio Brex (Toulon, 49 caps)
12. Tommaso Menoncello (Benetton Rugby, 34 caps)
11. Monty Ioane (Lyon, 42 caps)
10. Paolo Garbisi (Toulon, 49 caps)
9. Alessandro Fusco (Zebre<\/a> Parma, 20 caps)
1. Danilo Fischetti<\/a> (Northampton<\/a> Saints, 58 caps)
2. Giacomo Nicotera<\/a> (Stade Fran\u00e7ais, 36 caps)
3. Simone Ferrari (Benetton Rugby, 69 caps)
4. Niccol\u00f2 Cannone (Benetton Rugby, 58 caps)
5. Andrea Zambonin<\/a> (Exeter Chiefs, 14 caps)
6. Michele Lamaro<\/a> (Benetton Rugby, 49 caps) (c)
7. Manuel Zuliani<\/a> (Benetton Rugby, 38 caps)
8. Lorenzo Cannone<\/a> (Benetton Rugby, 33 caps)<\/p>\n

Replacements
16. Tommaso Di Bartolomeo<\/a> (Zebre Parma, 6 caps)
17. Mirco Spagnolo<\/a> (Benetton Rugby, 19 caps)
18. Muhamed Hasa<\/a> (Zebre Parma, 4 caps)
19. Federico Ruzza<\/a> (Benetton Rugby, 67 caps)
20. Riccardo Favretto<\/a> (Benetton Rugby, 8 caps)
21. Alessandro Garbisi<\/a> (Benetton Rugby, 19 caps)
22. Giacomo Da Re<\/a> (Zebre Parma, 6 caps)
23. Lorenzo Pani<\/a> (Zebre Parma, 8 caps)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy captain Michele Lamaro, centre Juan Ignacio Brex and fly-half Paolo Garbisi will all earn their 50th caps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-409819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}