ITALY
	No.	Name
15Matteo Minozzi, FB T
14Tommaso Benvenuti, W
13Giulio Bisegni, C
12Tommaso Castello, C
11Mattia Bellini, W
10Tommaso Allan, FH T 2  3  2
9Marcello Violi, SH
1Andrea Lovotti, P
2Leonardo Ghiraldini, H
3Simone Ferrari, P
4Alessandro Zanni, L
5Dean Budd, L
6Sebastian Negri, FL
7Jake Polledri, FL
8Sergio Parisse, N8
Replacements
16Oliviero Fabiani, R
17Nicola Quaglio, R
18Tiziano Pasquali, R
19Braam Steyn, R
20Giovanni Licata, R
21Guglielmo Palazzani, R
22Carlo Canna, R
23Jayden Hayward, R

SCOT
	No.	Name
15Stuart Hogg, FB T
14Tommy Seymour, W
13Huw Jones, C
12Nick Grigg, C
11Sean Maitland, W T
10Finn Russell, FH
9Greig Laidlaw, SH  3 
1Gordon Reid, P
2Fraser Brown, H T
3WP Nel, P
4Tim Swinson, L
5Jonny Gray, L
6John Barclay, FL T
7Hamish Watson, FL
8Ryan Wilson, N8
16Stuart McInally, R
17Jamie Bhatti, R
18Zander Fagerson, R
19Richie Gray, R
20David Denton, R
21Ali Price, R
22Pete Horne, R
23Blair Kinghorn, R

*Players currently on the pitch are shown in bold

Game Info

Venue: Stadio Olimpico

12:30 PM, March 17, 2018

2232dESPN Staff

Scotland survive Italian scare to sneak win in Rome

Scotland survived a major Italian scare with a scrappy, but entertaining 29-27 over Italy in Rome.

Match Commentary

81'		27-29 End of second half
80'		That's all from Rome - Italy finish bottom of the Six Nations with just one losing bonus point (this one) to show for their efforts. As things stand, Scotland are second, but a win for either France or Wales (who play each other) will bump them to third. And a win for England would leave them fourth. That's where we are headed next -- Twickenham, for England vs. Ireland. Join us here for full coverage of Ireland's attempt to win the Grand Slam.
80'		Sergio Parisse suffers his 100th Test defeat. He looks utterly spent. Italy can't quite believe they've lost this. And Scotland aren't doing very much celebrating either -- they realise how close they came to letting a positive Six Nations campaign end on a massive negative.

Match Stats

ITALY

SCOT

47%

53%

48%

52%

ITALY

SCOT

146	Runs	153
430	Metres Run	381
8	Clean Breaks	8
205	Tackles	173
20	Missed Tackles	15
3	Turnover Knock On	8

Standings

Six Nations
R	Team	GP	PD	P
1	IRE	5	+84	20
2	FRA	5	+6	15
3	ENG	5	-5	14
4	SCOT	5	0	12
5	ITALY	5	-34	11
6	WALES	5	-51	4

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