Treviso V Scarlets

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Benetton Treviso have won just one of their last six RaboDirect PRO12 encounters: 12-6 over Ospreys at Stadio Monigo on the opening day of the new season.

Treviso have won two of their last three games against the Welsh regions.

Scarlets' four game winning run ended at home to Ospreys on Friday, but they still sit atop the PRO12 table. Scarlets have won their last three away games but have not won four in a row on the road in the tournament since May 2004.

Each side won its respective home game when the two teams met last season, whilst the men from West Wales' only previous win in Treviso came during the pool games in the 2010/11 European Cup.

Treviso Team

15 Luke McLean
14 Tommaso Benvenuti
13 Alberto Sgarbi
12 Luca Morisi
11 Tommaso Iannone
10 Kristopher Burton
9 Tobias Botes

8 Robert Barbieri
7 Alessandro Zanni
6 Simone Favaro
5 Valerio Bernabò
4 Antonio Pavanello (captain)
3 Lorenzo Cittadini
2 Leonardo Ghiraldini
1 Michele Rizzo

On the bench:

16 Franco Sbaraglini
17 Ignacio Fernandez-Rouyet
18 Pedro Di Santo
19 Francesco Minto
20 Dean Budd
21 Paul Derbyshire
22 Fabio Semenzato
23 Alberto Di Bernardo



Scarlets Team

15 Jordan Williams,
14 Liam Williams,
13 Gareth Maule,
12 Jon Davies,
11 Andy Fenby,
10 Rhys Priestland,
9 Gareth Davies,

1 Phil John,
2 Matthew Rees,
3 Deacon Manu,
4 Sione Timani,
5 George Earle,
6 Josh Turnbull,
7 Johnathan Edwards,
8 Rob McCusker (capt).

Replacements: Ken Owens, Peter Edwards, Samson Lee, Aaron Shingler, Kieran Murphy, Tavis Knoyle, Adam Warren, Kristian Phillips.

At Stadio Monigo, 7.05pm.
Referee: Andrew McMenemy (SRU, 14th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Carlo Damasco, Simone Boaretto (both FIR)
Citing Commissioner: Maurizio Vancini (FIR)
TMO: Alan Falzone (FIR)

Live on Sportitalia

LIVE COVERAGE - The match will be broadcast live on Sportitalia (channel 61 of the DTT, channel 226 of Sky) with live commentary by Daniele Piervincenzi and Tommaso Visentin.

If Priestland had kicked to touch, Treviso would have taken the lineout and mauled down the pitch 60m (which they had jsut done) and would have moved into a far easier kicking range for the penalty. What Priest did was right imo considering how unthreatening the Treviso back three were.

He couldn't have predicted we'd have given away a really stupid penalty on halfway.

Kicking to touch uses up a minute of play time, there is a chance the Scarlets could have turned it over and the defence is set much further up the field i.e., running back a poor kick against a disorganised defence. There is always a risk of a penalty, Australia ring a bell where we lost the same way with the same flyhalf making the same mistake.

Well I'll be disagreeing with you about Rhys being at fault for the Australia match too.

Seems like with some people he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. Looking at how the treviso forwards were playing, I think it would have been daft to give them another chance at a driving maul.

whats are peoples opinions on Burton and Botes, outhalf and scrum half are the problem areas for Italy, and wondering how much they have improved this area. How would they rate to the other flyhaves we are more used to, ie are they about Weirs level or who?