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Benetton Rugby vs Southern Kings

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Tomorrow at Monigo Stadium Benetton Rugby will play the sixth round of the Guinness PRO14. After two victories against Edinburgh and Ospreys and a good performance against Glasgow, the white and green Lions will face the Southern Kings. The match will start at 20.00 and will be directed by Irish referee Sean Gallagher and assistants Rhys Thomas and Jonathan Hardy.

These are the 23 Lions that will take the field.

Full back will be Jayden Hayward, on the wings Angelo Esposito and Luca Sperandio. Ignacio Brex and Alberto Sgarbi will be respectively right and left centre.

The half backs are Tito Tebaldi at scrum half and Marty Banks at fly-half.

The front row will consist of Federico Zani, Luca Bigi and Simone Ferrari.

Locks will be Dean Budd and Marco Lazzaroni. Finally, the back row sees Sebastian Negri, Abraham Steyn and Marco Barbini completing the XV chosen by Crowley.

Benetton Rugby: 15 Jayden Hayward, 14 Angelo Esposito, 13 Ignacio Brex, 12 Alberto Sgarbi, 11 Luca Sperandio, 10 Marty Banks, 9 Tito Tebaldi, 8 Marco Barbini, 7 Abraham Steyn, 6 Sebastian Negri, 5 Marco Lazzaroni, 4 Dean Budd (C), 3 Simone Ferrari, 2 Luca Bigi, 1 Federico Zani.

Replacements: 16 Tomas Baravalle, 17 Cherif Traore, 18 Tiziano Pasquali, 19 Marco Fuser, 20 Robert Barbieri, 21 Edoardo Gori, 22 Tommaso Benvenuti, 23 Ian McKinley

Head Coach: Kieran Crowley

Unavailable: Tommaso Allan, Andrea Bronzini, Andrea Buondonno, Alberto De Marchi, Whetu Douglas, Ornel Gega, Irné Herbst, Tommaso Iannone, Engjel Makelara, Luca Morisi, Nicola Quaglio, Marco Riccioni, Michael Tagicakibau, Alessandro Zanni, Matteo Zanusso.

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