Italy will be the first team in a Rugby World Cup to have two sets of brothers starting for a World Cup game having the Garbisi and Cannone brothers in the starting lineup of the squad to face Uruguay tomorrow morning.
Alessandro Garbisi will start at halfback with brother Paolo Garbisi starting at inside centre.
Niccolo Cannone will start at locks while Lorenzo Cannone will start at number 8.
Coach Kieran Crowley has made 4 changes to the squad that beat Namibia 52-8 in their opening RWC pool clash last week.
Crowley says every game has its importance, its difficulties and its history during a World Cup and they can't afford to take the game with Uruguay lightly.
He says the preparation for the match against Uruguay was good and they will be focused on their performance tomorrow.
Italy will take on Uruguay at 3.45am in Nice.
Italy’s Starting XV:
15 Ange Capuozzo, 14 Lorenzo Pani, 13 Juan Ignacio Brex, 12 Paolo Garbisi, 11 Montanna Ioane, 10 Tommaso Allan, 9 Alessandro Garbisi, 8 Lorenzo Cannone, 7 Michele Lamaro (captain), 6 Sebastian Negri, 5 Federico Ruzza, 4 Niccolo Cannone, 3 Marco Riccioni, 2 Giacomo Nicotera, 1 Danilo Fischetti
Replacements:
16 Luca Bigi, 17 Federico Zani, 18 Pietro Ceccarelli, 19 Dino Lamb, 20 Manuel Zuliani, 21 Giovanni Pettinelli, 22 Alessandro Fusco, 23 Paolo Odogwu.
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