UPDATED: Capuozzo moves to full-back - Italy name team to play Uruguay
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Italy head coach Kieran Crowley has named his matchday 23 to face Uruguay in Pool A at Stade de Nice on Wednesday, with four changes from the win against Namibia. Star outside back Ange Capuozzo moves from wing to full-back.
1 Danilo Fischetti
2 Giacomo Nicotera
3 Marco Riccioni
4 Niccolo Cannone
5 Federico Ruzza
6 Sebastian Negri
7 Michele Lamaro (c)
8 Lorenzo Cannone
9 Alessandro Garbisi
10 Tommaso Allan
11 Montanna Ioane
12 Paolo Garbisi
13 Juan Ignacio Brex
14 Lorenzo Pani
15 Ange Capuozzo
Replacements:
16 Federico Zani
17 Ivan Nemer
18 Pietro Ceccarelli
19 Dino Lamb
20 Manuel Zuliani
21 Giovanni Pettinelli
22 Alessandro Fusco
23 Paolo Odogwu
Italy made one change on-arrival: replacement hooker Luca Bigi is out, with prop Federico Zani moving into the number 16 jersey and Ivan Nemer coming in at number 17.
- Head Coach Kieran Crowley has made four personnel changes to his starting XV from the team who defeated Namibia 52-8 in the opening round. Marco Riccioni comes into the front-row, Niccolò Cannone into the second-row, Alessandro Garbisi into scrum-half and Lorenzo Pani onto the wing.
- Tommaso Allan and Alessandro Garbisi start alongside each other in the half-backs for only the third time, after last year against Georgia and this year against Romania.
- Tommaso Allan kicked all eight shots at goal against Namibia in the opening round, scoring 17 points, equalling his highest points total in a RWC match after also scoring 17 against Romania in Exeter in 2015. He requires 15 more points to surpass Diego Dominguez as Italy’s all-time leading Rugby World Cup points scorer. In his ninth RWC game, Allan will look to overtake Dominguez who scored 98 points in nine matches between 1991 and 1999.
- Paolo Garbisi will start at inside-centre for the first time in his test career. All 23 previous starts have come at fly-half, with two caps off the bench.
- This match features two sets of brothers for the first time in Italy’s RWC history with Lorenzo and Niccolò Cannone and Paolo and Alessandro Garbisi starting alongside each other.
- Sebastian Negri will play his 50th test for Italy after making his debut in 2016 against USA