{"id":422227,"date":"2026-02-12T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422227\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:47:09","slug":"six-nations-reaction-and-analysis-from-ireland-and-scotlands-team-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422227\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations: Reaction and analysis from Ireland and Scotland&#8217;s team announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pani returns for Italypublished at 15:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p>15:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-w0w395-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Ireland v Italy (Sat, 14:10)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/26615b6a-4335-4a1c-a1e4-2dc2d9c184dc.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Italy Rugby<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lorenzo Pani\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/12332f91-6107-468b-bacc-92c90440f30a.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"513\" height=\"288\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Italy have recalled Lorenzo Pani for Saturday&#8217;s game against Ireland. He will make his first Test start in almost two years as he comes in for Juan Ignacio Brex. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leonardo Marin moves from full-back to outside centre to cover Brex&#8217;s absence with Pani given the 15 shirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ange Capuozzo is not included despite returning to the squad after a finger injury earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Italy: Pani; Lynagh, Marin, Menoncello, Ioane; P Garbisi, Fusco; Cannone, Zuliani, Lamaro (capt); Zambonin, Cannone; Ferrari, Nicotera, Fischetti <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Replacements: Di Bartolomeo, Spagnolo, Hasa, Ruzza, Favretto, Odiase, A Garbisi, Odogwu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pani returns for Italypublished at 15:55 GMT 15:55 GMT Ireland v Italy (Sat, 14:10) Italy Rugby Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-422227","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\/422227","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=422227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}