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Scotland v Italy

Losty Dublin

Kicking off at 2PM, live on Virgin 1.

Scotland: 15-Stuart Hogg, 14-Tommy Seymour, 13-Huw Jones, 12-Sam Johnson, 11-Blair Kinghorn; 10-Finn Russell, 9-Greig Laidlaw; 1-Allan Dell, 2-Stuart McInally, 3-Willem Nel, 4-Ben Toolis, 5-Grant Gilchrist, 6-Sam Skinner, 7-Jamie Ritchie, 8-Ryan Wilson.

Replacements: 16-Jake Kerr, 17-Jamie Bhatti, 18-Simon Berghan, 19-Gary Graham, 20-Josh Strauss, 21-Ali Price, 22-Adam Hastings, 23-Chris Harris.

Italy: 15-Jayden Hayward, 14-Angelo Esposito, 13-Luca Morisi, 12-Tommaso Castello, 11-Michele Campagnaro; 10-Tommaso Allan, 9-Tito Tebaldi; 1-Andrea Lovotti, 2-Leonardo Ghiraldini, 3-Simone Ferrari, 4-David Sisi, 5-Dean Budd, 6-Sebastian Negri, 7-Braam Steyn, 8-Sergio Parisse.

Replacements: 16-Luca Bigi, 17-Cherif Traore, 18-Tiziano Pasquali, 19-Jimmy Tuivaiti, 20-Federico Ruzza, 21-Guglielmo Palazzani, 22-Ian McKinley, 23-Edoardo Padovani.

I'm expecting a home win but unlike other years they'll be made fight for it a lot harder than they're used to. The Italy 3/4 are capable of a lot of pace and they've been faring better in the Pro 14 as a whole compared to previous seasons. Oh and Finn Russell is playing as well, which is as good as a sixteenth man for them :pac:

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corny

Italy not getting a fair crack from the referee.

c.p.w.g.w

Deliberate knock on, not given. Forward pass from Laidlaw for 2nd try. Italy have no luck. Also how was the ball out for the first try?

ClanofLams

Italy not great but with correct decisions could easily be ahead

razorblunt

Absolutely zero atmosphere

munsterlegend

Yes Italy unlucky with decisions but will ball in hand pose no danger whatsoever.

Losty Dublin

36 minutes in and this line out is as close as Italy have been to a try. And it wasn't even their throw:rolleyes:

razorblunt

Not straight again. Toolis caught it low to his left

errlloyd

This game is very stop start.

razorblunt

errlloyd wrote: »

This game is very stop start.

Alexa show me the visual representation of Scotland under Townsend.

munsterlegend

Hard to see Italy scoring a try unless an intercept or something.

Southdubin6

Terrible game was expecting more from Scottish forwards.

LuckyGent88

Great turnover by Parisse

razorblunt

Was Pearce trying to get Allen to hurry up with the kick to touch there?

vienne86

Italy don't really seem to be at the races. Scotland should be way out in front. This is a pretty boring match.

Dubinusa

Italy are very poor! The protection of their own ball is terrible. Very inexperienced sided territorial.
Italy need to score something soon to get some momentum.
2nd try, I thought there was 2 forward passes.

eagle eye

Italy bench seems quite poor, would expect Scotland to score a lot in the last twenty minutes.

munsterlegend

Didn’t see anything wrong with any of the Scottish tries. Could argue deliberate knock on alright against Scottish winger and a yellow card.

Dave_The_Sheep

Nobody in the BBC studio mentioning that maybe, just maybe, both passes for Scotland's second try were forward.

razorblunt

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Nobody in the BBC studio mentioning that maybe, just maybe, both passes for Scotland's second try were forward.

Awful patronising stuff, just expecting Scotland to dominate. Cotter on commentary ignoring the obvious too, Moore had to point out the double movement the other two lads went quiet.

Polledri in the studio is playing it safe.

munsterlegend

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Nobody in the BBC studio mentioning that maybe, just maybe, both passes for Scotland's second try were forward.

Nothing clear and obvious from what I could see. Even Italians didn’t protest too much.

Losty Dublin

A fear I'd have for Scotland is that they have often struggled to kill off games. Thy've become a lot more adept at keeping the score in their favour in the last 18 months but they still aren't at that stage just yet where you know that they'll hold you down for the 80.

But and this is a big BUT, they are playing some really poor football and they are making needless errors. The Italians have the scrums and they can put pressure on. The first 15 minutes of the second half will decide this game and not the last 15.