{"id":472351,"date":"2026-03-12T23:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472351\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:33:09","slug":"three-conquerors-of-england-missing-as-italy-hunt-for-historic-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472351\/","title":{"rendered":"Three conquerors of England missing as Italy hunt for historic win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Italy<\/a> head coach Gonzalo Quesada<\/a> has named his side to take on Wales<\/a> in the final round of the Guinness Six Nations, with three changes to the starting XV that triumphed over England<\/a> for the first time in Rome last week. <\/p>\n

A back injury in the 23-18 victory over Steve Borthwick\u2019s side has ruled tighthead prop Simone Ferrari<\/a> out, prematurely ending a stellar Championship. Muhamed Hasa<\/a> will wear the No.3 jersey as the Azzurri look to win three Six Nations<\/a> matches for the first time in their history at the Principality Stadium. Giosu\u00e8 Zilocchi will serve as back-up tighthead. <\/p>\n

Another change in the pack will see Federico Ruzza<\/a> partner Niccol\u00f2 Cannone in the second-row in place of Andrea Zambonin<\/a>, with back-row David Odiase<\/a> joining the substitutes. <\/p>\n

The final change to the XV comes in the backline, with another scrum-half reshuffle. This week, Alessandro Fusco<\/a> will start instead of Alessandro Garbisi<\/a>, with Stephen Varney<\/a> a reserve. <\/p>\n

Italy have won their previous two meetings against Wales, who are looking to snap a 15-match unbeaten run in the Six Nations. <\/p>\n

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Wales <\/p>\n

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Italy <\/p>\n

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Italy XV
15 Lorenzo Pani<\/a>, 14 Louis Lynagh<\/a>, 13 Juan Ignacio Brex<\/a>, 12 Tommaso Menoncello<\/a>, 11 Monty Ioane<\/a>, 10 Paolo Garbisi<\/a>, 9 Alessandro Fusco<\/a>, 1 Danilo Fischetti<\/a>, 2 Giacomo Nicotera<\/a>, 3 Muhamed Hasa<\/a>, 4 Niccol\u00f2 Cannone, 5 Federico Ruzza<\/a>, 6 Michele Lamaro<\/a> (c), 7 Manuel Zuliani<\/a>, 8 Lorenzo Cannone<\/p>\n

Replacements
16 Tommaso Di Bartolomeo<\/a>, 17 Mirco Spagnolo<\/a>, 18 Giosu\u00e8 Zilocchi, 19 Riccardo Favretto<\/a>, 20 David Odiase<\/a>, 21 Stephen Varney<\/a>, 22 Leonardo Marin<\/a>, 23 Tommaso Allan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy head coach Gonzalo Quesada has named his side to take on Wales in the final round of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-472351","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\/472351","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=472351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}