RBS 6 Nation Rugby Match
Italy vs England
Time:17:00 local, 16:00 GMT
Venue: Olympic Stadium, Rome
Date:11 FEBRUARY,2012
England could not provide any fall ups when they visit to Rome to take on Italy in second week of the 2012 Six Nations Rugby Match on 11th February. England begins the tournament as rigid favorites like as the bookmakers after thrashing Scotland in last weekend, but they will be careful enough that Italy has manage to distress the possibility against France previous year. Italy will be taking part in Six Nations rugby match in their latest stadium, the Studio Olimpico, after their shifting from Stadio Flaminio and the more than 80,000 setter stadium should afford a frightening environment.
England will be to pull out from their unbeaten testimony in opposite to Italy when the two competitors meet with on another at the Stadio Olimpico on Saturday.
There have already held 17 test matches since 1991 with the nations of the Azzurri current taste victory. De-facto, England is the unique team taking part in the tournament that Italy has never be able to beat.
Italy approximately has finished the event in Rome in 2010, when England was dynamic in a 17-12 win - Italy's 2nd biggest success in the record of the unit. Previous visit to Italy at Twickenham have finished in catastrophe when the charges of Martin Johnson made simple by the hazard of the Azzurri, as they ran in eight attempts on the path, their 59-13 triumph.
England 80-23 at Twickenham in the Six Nations triumph in 2001 is the top most score and biggest border of success in the tournament. The upshot is a record score for an worldwide championship match.
Italy 23 points were the highest score that day against England, in spite of its super outcome was the 4 points (19-23) beat at Rome in 2008.
England 10 tries at Twickenham in 2001 by a participator in a match of this series. The best presentation is 3 Italian Test at Twickenham in 1996.
Jonny Wilkinson set the sign for the top personal score in a match. He has achieved 35 points at Twickenham in 2001 to the latest record for most individual points by a performer in a worldwide championship match. Diego Dominguez collected 15 points for Italy at Huddersfield in 1998.
Italy: Andrea Masi, Giovanbattista Venditti, Tommaso Benvenuti, Alberto Sgarbi, Luke McLean, Kristopher Burton, Edoardo Gori; Sergio Parisse (captain), Robert Barbieri, Alessandro Zannni, Quintin Geldenhuys, Cornelius van Zyl, Martin Castrogiovanni, Leonardo Ghiraldini, Andrea Lo Cicero.
Reserves: Tommaso D'Apice, Lorenzo Cittadini, Marco Bortolami, Simone Favaro, Fabio Semenzato, Tobias Botes, Gonzalo Canale.
Forwards
Mouritz Botha,Calum Clark,Alex Corbisiero,Dan Cole,Tom Croft,Louis Deacon,Phil Dowson,Dylan Hartley,Courtney Lawes,Joe Marler,Lee Mears,Ben Morgan,Tom Palmer,Chris Robshaw,Matt Stevens,Rob Webber,David Wilson,Tom Wood
Backs
Chris Ashton,Brad Barritt,Mike Brown,Lee Dickson,Owen Farrell,Toby Flood,Ben Foden,Charlie Hodgson,Joe Simpson,Charlie Sharples,David Strettle,Manusamoa Tuilagi,Jordan Turner-Hall,Ben Youngs
Austin Healey achieved the 1st of three hat-tricks from England attempt in the game, crossing at Rome in 2000. Jason Robinson has managed the beat further in Rome in 2004 and Mark Cueto at Twickenham in 2005. But the previous year, in Twickenham, Chris Ashton thrashed all records when he ran for 4 scores in England - the 1st one to make it in a test because of Nick Easter return opposite to Wales in 2007. No Italian performer scored two tries in a match till then.
Jonny Wilkinson leads the list of the top on an average outcome of the tournament with 148 in nine appearances. Diego Dominguez, who performed 7 matches against England, maintains the record corresponds, Italy 51st.
Austin Healey and Mark Cueto are the highly valuable generals try football with six. Mirco Bergamasco has make three tries in the tournament.
In 1986, a total-powered England XV hold to a 15-15 draw in Rome in a game that only Italy identified as a cap game.
The Azzurri again gave caps for 3 games in opposite to England below 23 sides between 1975 and 1982, and for the game in 1985 against England B. The outcome of these games was like as: 1975 England u-23 29-13 (Gosforth); 1979 Drawn 6-6 (Brescia); 1982 Italy 12-7 (Padua); 1985 England B 21-9 (Twickenham).
