Rugby, Six Nations kicks off tonight. Italia v Scotland on Saturday at a sold-out Olimpico
The world's most important rugby tournament opens this evening with France-Ireland, a match brought forward a day so that tomorrow the entire sporting stage is reserved for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics
A special Thursday night awaits us. It is an unusual day of the week for a match of the Six Nations. Yet the world's most important rugby tournament opens this evening with France-Ireland, a match brought forward a day so that tomorrow the entire sporting stage is reserved for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
On Saturday, with more usual 'timing', the first day will end with Italia v Scotland and the theoretically one-sided confrontation between England (who share most of the predictions for the final victory with France) and a Wales in crisis for years now.
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The Azzurri are certainly not in crisis, but they complain of an injury quota that, at the start of the tournament, is well above average. Suffice it to think of the unavailability, at least at the start of the Six Nations, of those who could have been the first two choices in the roles of fullback (Capuozzo and Allan) and scrum-half (Allan and Page-Relo), as well as the absence for the entire competition of Negri and Vintcent, first-rate elements in the third line department, and the temporary absences of Riccioni and Lucchesi in the first line.
The fullback will be Leonardo Marin, who has overtaken Lorenzo Pani in the coaching staff's preferences, although the latter is definitely more used to playing No. 15.
"We have been following Leonardo since the beginning of the season and he has always performed well, as a centre but also as a fullback. He has been in the group for some time, he knows the mechanisms. In addition, he can cover two roles: for example, if Pani came in he could play centre and in kicking his right foot can be an alternative to Paolo Garbisi's left.
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