URC 22/23 6a Giornata

[Garry]

Arbitri:


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21

Benetton v Vodacom Bulls
Stadio Monigo, Treviso – KO 17.30 IRE & UK / 18.30 ITA & SA
Referee: Frank Murphy (IRFU, 67th league game)
AR 1: Filippo Russo (FIR) AR 2: Alex Frasson (FIR)
TMO: Olly Hodges (IRFU)
Live on: Eurosport, Discovery +, Premier Sports, SuperSport & URC.tv


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22

Zebre Parma v Edinburgh Rugby
Stadio Lanfranchi, Parma – KO 13.00 IRE & UK / 14.00 ITA & SA
Referee: Craig Evans (WRU, 37th league game)
AR 1: Manuel Bottino (FIR) AR 2: Alberto Favaro (FIR)
TMO: Jon Mason (WRU)
Live on: Discovery +, SuperSport, Premier Sports & URC.tv

[Garry]

Curiosità:


Did you know?
•Benetton Rugby have lost only two of their last seven BKT United Rugby Championshipfixtures, both away from home, at Leinster inRound 2 atEdinburgh last weekend.
•The Italians have won their last five home games in the Championship since Connacht beat them at Stadio Monigo in April. •Benetton have lost their last three fixtures against SouthAfrican opponents.
•Vodacom Bulls havelost theirlast two matches, at Glasgow and at Munster, and have not lost three in succession in the VodacomUnited Rugby Championshipsince January.
•Bulls record against Italian opponents is won two, lost one.
•The two sides have met on two previous occasions, Benetton winning 35-8 at Stadio Monigo in the final of the Rainbow Cup and the Bulls winning 46-29 in Pretoria on 23 April.

Did you know?
•Zebre Parma have lost their last eight BKT United Rugby Championshipmatches since beating Dragons 23-18 at Stadio Lanfranchi at the end of April.
•Zebre have lost their last eleven fixtures against Scottish opponents since beating Edinburgh in Parma in October 2018.
•Edinburgh’s 53-8 victory at home to Benetton on Saturday ended a three-gamelosing run in the BKT United Rugby Championship.
•Edinburgh have won just once away from home in the Championship since November2021: 21-5 against Cell C Sharks in Durban in March.
•The Scotsmen have won their last four fixtures against Italian opponents.
•Edinburgh have won their last five matches against Zebre

[Garry]

Altre statistiche e curiosità offerte generosamente dall'URC. Stavolta sono generosi con le Zebre: solo cose positive.
Le italiane stanno diventando le regine degli offload.


BENETTON V VODACOM BULLS
Benetton
Benetton’s average of 30.8 kicks in play per match is the highest in the league
Toa Halafihi is back at it for Benetton: he has won as many turnovers as any other player in URC 2 so far (six). He made three last weekend alone – as many as any other player in round five
A name forever engraved in the history of Italian rugby after his heroics in the 2022 Six Nations, Edoardo Padovani has continued his form for his club and is currently their top try scorer (three)

Vodacom Bulls
The Bulls have currently beaten the fewest players per match in the URC (10.8)
Bulls wing David Kriel has missed more tackles than any other player in the league, slipping off 13. This makes his tackle success rate a disappointing 57%
The Bulls have conceded the most penalties in the league for foul play thus far in the season, getting pinged for an offence in this category a total of 14 times

Did You Know?
One area in which these teams are very contrasting is the maul. The Bulls have formed more mauls than any other side this season (44), whereas Benetton have set up to drive a league-low 22 times.
Having played one another twice in the league before, it is one-all between Benetton and the Bulls. Last season, they both won at home.
Benetton have won their last five league matches at home.


ZEBRE PARMA V EDINBURGH RUGBY
Zebre Parma
Still in search of their first win of the season, Zebre have been a pleasure to watch nonetheless. They have made more offloads than any other team in the league, an average of 11.4 per match. Fellow Italian franchise Benetton rank in second with 9.6
Zebre Parma have made more metres with their maul than any other team (154)
Zebre make the highest percentage of low tackles, below the waist, in the league (46%)

Edinburgh
Despite having scored more tries than any other team in the league (25), Edinburgh’s total points haul has been limited by their poor success rate off the tee – just 48%
Linking up well with their teammates to make synchronous attacks, Edinburgh have produced more try assists than any other team so far this season (14)
Edinburgh’s Darcy Graham is in havoc-wreaking form: he is the league’s top try scorer with eight and has beaten more defenders (22), made more clean breaks (12), and made more metres with ball in hand than any other player (442)

Did You Know?
Zebre have not defeated Edinburgh since October 2018. There have been five matches in the interim.
Zebre have lost their three most recent home matches and are on an eight match losing streak overall.
Edinburgh have not won on the road in any of their last four URC away matches.

[SilverShadow]

Toa Halafihi is back at it for Benetton: he has won as many turnovers as any other player in URC 2 so far (six). He made three last weekend alone – as many as any other player in round five

Secondo Opta ne aveva fatti 5
https://twitter.com/OptaJonny/status/15 ... 0220297217

Zebre Parma
They have made more offloads than any other team in the league, an average of 11.4 per match. Fellow Italian franchise Benetton rank in second with 9.6

Numeri interessanti. Ho come l'impressione che mentre le Zebre usano l'offload un po' a tutto campo, i biancoverdi concentrano il suo utilizzo in singole azioni, facendone 2/3 in sequenza. Ma magari è solo un'impressione, appunto.
Piccola nota, se Bruno è primo nella classifica per offload (10), Zanon è quarto (7). Non me l'aspettavo, non mi sembra che in passato ne facesse molti.
https://www.unitedrugby.com/statistics/players

[profetacciato]

Benetton Rugby:

15 Giacomo Da Re (6)
14 Ignacio Mendy (4)
13 Ignacio Brex (60)
12 Marco Zanon (51)
11 Mattia Bellini (6)
10 Tomas Albornoz (18)
9 Dewaldt Duvenage (76) (c)
8 Lorenzo Cannone (15)
7 Michele Lamaro (41)
6 Manuel Zuliani (34)
5 Federico Ruzza (91)
4 Scott Scrafton (4)
3 Simone Ferrari (84)
2 Giacomo Nicotera (19)
1 Ivan Nemer (37)

A disposizione: 16 Gianmarco Lucchesi (28), 17 Thomas Gallo (32), 18 Tiziano Pasquali (103), 19 Niccolò Cannone (47), 20 Toa Halafihi (55), 21 Manfredi Albanese (2), 22 Tommaso Menoncello (21), 23 Marcus Watson (2).

()= presenze in biancoverde

Head Coach: Marco Bortolami.

Indisponibili: Corniel Els, Riccardo Favretto, Alessandro Garbisi, Leonardo Marin, Sebastian Negri, Leonardo Padovani, Giovanni Pettinelli, Rhyno Smith, Cherif Traore.

[Mr Ian]

Questa la squadra che seguirà Connacht..dal divano.
1 - Wyn Jones
2 - Taylor Davies
3 - Samson Lee
4 - Sam Lousi
5 -Aaron Shingler
6 - Vaea Fifita
7 - Tomas Lezana
8 - Blade Thomson
9 - Gareth Davies
10 - Dan Jones
11 - Tom Rogers
12 - Jonny Williams
13 - Scott Williams
14 - Callum Williams
15 - Ioan Nicholas


16 -Phil Price
17 - Daf Hughes
18 - Jav Sabastian
19 - Tomas Lezana
20 - Carwyn Tuipolotu
21 - Archie Hughes
22 - Josh Philips
23 - Joe Roberts

[Mr Ian]

15 Leigh Halfpenny; 14 Johnny McNicholl, 13 Steff Evans, 12 Jonathan Davies (capt), 11 Ryan Conbeer; 10 Sam Costelow, 9 Kieran Hardy; 1 Steff Thomas, 2 Ken Owens, 3 Harri O’Connor 4 Jac Price, 5 Tom Price, 6 Josh Macleod, 7 Dan Thomas, 8 Sione Kalamafoni.

Replacements: 16 Ryan Elias, 17 Kemsley Mathias, 18 WillGriff John, 19 Morgan Jones, 20 Iwan Shenton, 21 Dane Blacker, 22 Rhys Patchell, 23 Corey Baldwin.
Questi quelli che saranno a Galway per il match di domani sera. A 7 Dan Thomas, ragazzi cresciuto negli scarlets ma che mai ha trovato lo spazio giusto. Arriva per due settimane da Bristol, dove li è un buon mestierante, ma nulla di più.
Nel dubbio Steff Evans passa a 13...non riesco a commentare, perchè se va bene, tappa un buco. Ma se va male, va male male.

[teob78]

https://www.zebreparma.it/it-it/muhamed ... anchi.aspx

Intervista di Momo Hasa sul sito delle Zebre, ne deduco che partirà titolare contro Edinburgh

[Garry]

Sabato a Parma si affrontano la squadra che ha realizzato più mete di tutto il campionato, con quella che ne ha subite di più.
Cosa succederà?

[VANZANDT]

ci sono problemi con hidalgo a tv???

[Man of the moment]

ci sono problemi con hidalgo a tv???

Sì strano, non è in lista infortunati anche se pensavo lo fosse. Magari sono rimasti ben impressionati da Albanese

[Spinoza]

ci sono problemi con hidalgo a tv???

credo che molto semplicemente non sia ancora sufficientemente fit

[Birramedia]

Dai, stasera al Monigo appare Odogwu in tribuna, pronto per la firma del contratto, si scherza eh.....

[Man of the moment]

15. Lorenzo Pani (6)
14. Pierre Bruno (41)
13. Tommaso Boni (110)
12. Damiano Mazza (1)
11. Jacopo Trulla (28)
10. Tiff Eden (4)
9. Alessandro Fusco (20)
8. Taina Fox-Matamua (10)
7. MJ Pelser (4)
6. Luca Andreani (20)
5. Leonard Krumov (76)
4. David Sisi (Cap) (84)
3. Ion Neculai (21)
2. Marco Manfredi (27)
1. Juan Pitinari (8)

A disposizione:

16. Giampietro Ribaldi (12)
17. Luca Rizzoli (3)
18. Muhamed Hasa (3)
19. Andrea Zambonin (22)
20. Gabriele Venditti (10)
21. Chris Cook (7)
22. Geronimo Prisciantelli (1)
23. Richard Kriel (3)
All. Fabio Roselli

Non disponibili per infortunio: Paolo Buonfiglio, Erich Cronjé, Gonzalo Garcia, Simone Gesi, Giovanni Licata, Mattia Mazzanti, Johan Meyer, Matteo Moscardi, Antonio Rizzi, Dennis Visser, Kobus Van Wyk

Gli Italiani, usciti vincitori in cinque precedenti sugli Scozzesi, di cui quattro a Parma e uno ad Edimburgo, hanno recuperato in settimana il centro Enrico Lucchin, il pilone sinistro Daniele Rimpelli e il seconda linea sudafricano Jan Uys che sono però trattenuti a riposo. Proseguono positivamente le riabilitazioni di Visser, Van Wyk, Licata e Garcia, quest’ultimo tornato a svolgere delle sessioni di allenamento senza contatto.

[SilverShadow]

Formazione decisamente più abbordabile di quella della scorsa settimana ma comunque con qualità, vediamo se le Zebre riescono a portare a casa qualcosa