Paolo Pescetto kicks off for the visitors.

Anyone care to guess the final score?

A very good evening.

Zebre will need to win at Ulster for the first time if they are to stand a chance of finishing off the foot of Conference A.

The Italian outfit are four points behind the fifth-placed Dragons and would climb above them with a victory, although the men from Newport have two games remaining at their temporary home at the Principality Stadium.

That will be far easier said than done, however, with Zebre having beaten Ulster just twice in 14 meetings – both in Parma.

Ulster are already guaranteed to finish second having missed out to Leinster on a place in the final.

In total, there are three changes in the starting XV that which faced Leinster in R15 with captain Tommaso Boni returning in midfield, former Italian U20 international Lorenzo Masselli replacing Renato Giammarioli in the back row and Paolo Pescetto starting at No 10

Ulster hand a first start to 21year-old, Cormac Izuchukwu in the second row alongside Kieran Treadwell

Zebre lost a high-scoring encounter with Leinster last weekend and are four points behind fifth-placed Dragons, who have a game in hand.

Dan McFarland’s side are unbeaten against Italian sides since losing 27-23 to Zebre three and a half years ago and they have won all seven home meetings against Friday’s opponents.

Ulster have already guaranteed the runners-up spot on the back of 13 wins and just two losses, both of which came against Leinster this year.

South Africa back-row Marcell Coetzee scored four tries in a 57-14 victory over bottom-of-the-table Zebre when Ulster travelled to Parma in mid-November.