Four days from the end of the regular season for Zebre Parma and Glasgow Warriors who will face each other on Saturday at 2.00 pm in the 15th round of the United Rugby Championship. This is the former Italy coach’s first match of the season with the Glasgow Warriors Frank Smithfather of Franco Smith jr number 13 of the match. Zebre and Glasgow are also rivals in the Italian-Scottish group and second in the standings with 53 points, the result of 11 wins and 3 defeats. Zebre last with 15 points in the standings.
Training news
Rest session for Gonzalo Garcia, Simone Gesi, Giovanni Licata, Andrea Zambonin and Davide Ruggeri. Also back in the lineup are Ferrari, De Leeuw, Fox-Matamua, Sisi and Manfredi, the latter about to cross the finish line of five appearances in the zebra jersey before moving to Benetton from next season.
The academy prop from Colorno (Serie A Elite) has also been called up Samuele Taddeiplaying on March 1st in Cork against Munster, and the scrum-half Ratko Jelicready to take over during the match in progress in his first appearance of the season.
Live TV
Zebre Parma and Glasgow Warriors is scheduled at the Lanfranchi Stadium in Parma on Saturday 27 April at 2.00 pm, a match that will also be broadcast live on Sky Sport channel 257 and streaming on NOW.
The Zebre Parma and Glasgow Warriors lineups:
Zebras: 15 Lorenzo Pani, 14 Jacopo Trulla, 13 Franco Smith Jr, 12 Enrico Lucchin, 11 Scott Gregory, 10 Geronimo Prisciantelli (c), 9 Thomas Dominguez, 8 Giacomo Ferrari, 7 Iacopo Bianchi, 6 Guido Volpi, 5 Dylan de Leeuw, 4 Leonard Krumov, 3 Muhamed Hasa, 2 Marco Manfredi, 1 Danilo Fischetti
Bench: 16 Giampietro Ribaldi, 17 Samuele Taddei, 18 Juan Pitinari, 19 Matteo Canali, 20 David Sisi, 21 Ratko Jelic, 22 Fetuli Paea, 23 Taina Fox-Matamua
All. Fabio Roselli
Glasgow: 15 Josh McKay, 14 Kyle Steyn (c), 13 Stafford McDowall, 12 Sione Tuipulotu, 11 Kyle Rowe, 10 Ross Thompson, 9 Jamie Dobie, 8 Henco Venter, 7 Thomas Gordon, 6 Ally Miller, 5 Max Williamson, 4 Sintu Manjezi , 3 Lucio Sordoni, 2 Gregor Hiddleston, 1 Allan Dell
Bench: 16 Grant Stewart, 17 Nathan McBeth, 18 Zander Fagerson, 19 Scott Cummings, 20 Euan Ferrie, 21 Gregor Brown, 22 George Horne, 23 Tom Jordan
All. Franco Smith
Lanfranchi Stadium, Parma
Kick-off: 14:00 local (13:00 GMT)
Referee: Eoghan Cross (IRFU)
Assistants: Filipo Russo (FIR), Manuel Bottino (FIR)
TMO: Colin Stanley (IRFU)
Not available due to injury: Luca Bigi, Paolo Buonfiglio, Pierre Bruno, Ben Cambriani, Alessandro Fusco, Giovanni Montemauri, Luca Morisi, Ion Neculai, Matteo Nocera, Luca Rizzoli
