6N Wales v Italy

[Duluth]

'You find out about people in weeks like this': Gatland

Warren Gatland says he relishes the high-pressure stakes of international sport as Wales strive to avoid a first...

15 Cameron Winnett, 14 Josh Adams, 13 George North, 12 Nick Tompkins, 11 Rio Dyer, 10 Sam Costelow, 9 Tomos Williams, 8 Aaron Wainwright, 7 Tommy Reffell, 6 Alex Mann, 5 Adam Beard, 4 Dafydd Jenkins (c), 3 Dillon Lewis, 2 Elliot Dee, 1 Gareth Thomas

Reserves: 16 Evan Lloyd, 17 Kemsley Mathias, 18 Harri O’Connor, 19 Will Rowlands, 20 Mackenzie Martin, 21 Kieran Hardy, 22 Ioan Lloyd, 23 Mason Grady

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Italy make three changes for Wales with Ange Capuozzo ruled out

Italy have made three changes from the team that defeated Scotland last weekend for their Wooden Spoon decider...

15 Lorenzo Pani, 14 Louis Lynagh, 13 Juan Ignacio Brex, 12 Tommaso Menoncello, 11 Monty Ioane, 10 Paolo Garbisi, 9 Stephen Varney, 8 Lorenzo Cannone, 7 Michele Lamaro (c), 6 Sebastian Negri, 5 Federico Ruzza, 4 Niccolò Cannone, 3 Simone Ferrari, 2 Giacomo Nicotera, 1 Danilo Fischetti

Reserves: 16 Gianmarco Lucchesi, 17 Mirco Spagnolo, 18 Giosuè Zilocchi, 19 Andrea Zambonin, 20 Ross Vintcent, 21 Manuel Zuliani, 22 Martin Page-Relo, 23 Leonardo Marin

[MiketheSnow]

Bookies have Wales by +9

They’re rarely wrong

[Duluth]

@MiketheSnow

Seems about right in Cardiff

I'd call it 50/50 if it was played in Italy

[Dodge]

Depends which way the Italians go for me, if they celebrated too much last week they may subconsciously feel this 6N is already job done. I hope I’m wrong though, if they’re as up for it as last week I fancy Italy to win this, particularly when the benches are emptied in the second half

[MiketheSnow]

@Dodge said in 6N Wales v Italy:

Depends which way the Italians go for me, if they celebrated too much last week they may subconsciously feel this 6N is already job done. I hope I’m wrong though, if they’re as up for it as last week I fancy Italy to win this, particularly when the benches are emptied in the second half

It could go either way that's for sure.

Home advantage, better centre partnership, North's last game, avoiding Gatland's worst 6N finish.

Hopefully all that will be enough to get us the BP win and deny Italy their BP.

We find a front row and we're not a bad side.

[pooler fan]

Jonathan Davies on Comms - Italy look better coached, he's not wrong.

[Bones]

Huge moment.

[Bones]

Love how the commentators assumed the only result from that scrum was Italy kicking it out in their 22

[Dodge]

@MiketheSnow said in 6N Wales v Italy:

@Dodge said in 6N Wales v Italy:

Depends which way the Italians go for me, if they celebrated too much last week they may subconsciously feel this 6N is already job done. I hope I’m wrong though, if they’re as up for it as last week I fancy Italy to win this, particularly when the benches are emptied in the second half

It could go either way that's for sure.

Home advantage, better centre partnership, North's last game, avoiding Gatland's worst 6N finish.

Hopefully all that will be enough to get us the BP win and deny Italy their BP.

We find a front row and we're not a bad side.

Not looking like the better centre partnership at the moment. menoncello and Brex look awesome. Tompkins is having an absolute nightmare

[Bones]

Take the 3 Wales ya mongs

[Dodge]

Italians look bang up for it but it’s controlled aggression not desperation, shows how far they’ve come

[Victor Meldrew]

Try of the Tournament by Pani?

[Jailbreak7]

@pooler-fan Surely Gatland is gone if they lose

[sparky]

This is a bit of a thumping so far.

[Billy Tell]

This might be the end of the road for gats. If the 6N had promotion / demotion we might be talking about warren g relegate.

[Victor Meldrew]

@Billy-Tell

50+ minutes in and this is the worst Welsh performance I've seen in years.

EDIT: Winnett looks class.

[Dodge]

Wales score, 11 points behind 15 mins to go, have a horrible feeling about this

[sparky]

A Welsh revival or a dead cat bounce?

[sparky]

Wales keep giving away penalties. They can't get any momentum or flow.

[sparky]

Wales 7 Italy 21. Less than 10 minutes to go.