Italy will be without full-back/winger Ange Capuozzo for its first match of the Six Nations Tournament against England on Saturday in Rome. “Ange is suffering from gastroenteritis and will be replaced in the starting fifteen by Lorenzo Pani,” Parma winger, explained the Italian management at the opening of the press conference the day before the match.

Italy will also be without Treviso second-row Edoardo Iachizzi who was one of the substitutes and who was injured in the left shoulder.