Rugby: Italy-Scotland; Smith confirms XV Paris blue

Saturday we play at the Olimpico Italy-Scotland for the third day of the 6 Nations 2020. Italy hopes to catch the first success after 5 years without victories in the tournament, and 7 without success at home. For this challenge coach Franco Smith, who plays confirmation in this match and in the next two against Ireland and England (his job is 'interim'), has decided to deploy the same initial XV seen two weeks ago in Paris against France, where the blues lost 35-22. So there will be the enlarged triangle formed by Hayward and the two Padovans - Bellini and Minozzi - to act on the wing. Pair of centers formed by Luca Morisi and Carlo Canna, while in the median Tommaso Allan will take the field for the 57th time with the blue shirt, the fifth against Scotland in which he played up to the under 20 level. Next to number 10 of the Benetton Rugby will find space for the English Braley, his future teammate in Treviso.
Third line tested with Steyn n.8 supported by Sebastian Negri and Jake Polledri. In the second line Niccolò Cannone will be joined by one of the most present players in the history of Italian rugby - Alessandro Zanni - who will reach 119 appearances in the National team, linking Castrogiovanni in the blue attendance ranking of all time. In the front line captain Bigi will find on the sides the physicality of Zilocchi and the experience of Lovotti, both of his teammates at Zebre.
In the meantime, it should be noted that 55 thousand tickets have been sold for Italy-Scotland so far, seven thousand of which to the visiting fans, some of whom already circulate on the streets of central Rome. For this appointment, the Village of the Third Time will also be set up by Peroni Beer.
This is the 15th anti-Scotland blue: 15 Hayward, 14 Bellini, 13 Morisi, 12 Canna, 11 Minozzi, 10 Allan, 9 Braley, 8 Steyn, 7 Negri, 6 Polledri, 5 Cannon, 4 Zanni, 3 Zilocchi, 2 Bigi, 1 Lovotti. (HANDLE).