Vintcent Primed for All Blacks Test

Exeter Chiefs back rower Ross Vintcent has been selected to start for Italy in their All Blacks test.

Gonzalo Quesada, Head Coach of Italy, has named his squad for Saturday's game at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, the third and final Test Match for the Azzurri in the Autumn Nations Series.

It will be the eighteenth clash between the two teams, the tenth in Italy and the first in Turin which, for the occasion, will see rugby debut in the Juventus stadium, open for the first time to a non-football event.

The seventeen previous meetings are all in favour of the three-time World Champions, currently in third place in the ranking after the narrow defeat suffered last Saturday in Paris against France.

Italy are heading into the final match of their international autumn after a comeback win in Genoa on Sunday against Georgia, the fifth in ten test-matches under Gonzalo Quesada who, at the moment, boasts a score of five wins, one draw and four defeats.

For the test-match with the New Zealand, Italy's Argentine coach makes six changes from last weekend's side.

Italy:

15 Ange CAPUOZZO (Stade Toulousain, 22 caps)

14 Jacopo TRULLA (Zebre Parma, 11 caps)

13 Juan Ignacio BREX (Benetton Rugby, 40 caps) – captain

12 Tommaso MENONCELLO (Benetton Rugby, 22 caps)

11 Monty IOANE (Lyon 34 caps)

10 Paolo GARBISI (Toulon RC, 41 caps)

9 Martin PAGE-RELO (Lyon, 12 caps)

8 Ross VINTCENT (Exeter Chiefs, 8 caps)

7 Manuel ZULIANI (Benetton Rugby, 26 caps)

6 Sebastian BLACKS (Benetton Rugby, 57 caps)

5 Dino LAMB (Harlequins, 8 caps)

4 Federico RUZZA (Benetton Rugby, 58 caps)

3 Marco RICCIONI (Saracens, 29 caps)

2 Gianmarco LUCCHESI (Toulon RC, 27 caps)

1 Danilo FISCHETTI (Zebre Parma, 46 caps)

Replacements:

16 Giacomo NICOTERA (Stade Francais, 27 caps)

17 Mirco SPAGNOLO (Benetton Rugby, 10 caps)

18 Simone FERRARI (Benetton Rugby, 58 caps)

19 Niccolò CANNONE (Benetton Rugby, 46 caps)

20 Alessandro IZEKOR (Benetton Rugby, 5 caps)

21 Alessandro GARBISI (Benetton Rugby, 12 caps)

22 Leonardo MARIN (Benetton Rugby, 12 caps)

23 Marco ZANON (Benetton Rugby, 12 caps)